Akira Hirao

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Best Publications

• Precise syntheses of chain-multi-functionalized polymers, star-branched polymers, star-linear block polymers, densely branched polymers, and dendritic branched polymers based on iterative approach using functionalized 1,1-diphenylethylene derivatives

  Akira Hirao;Mayumi Hayashi;Surapich Loykulnant;Kenji Sugiyama

  409
  Citations

• Advances in Living Anionic Polymerization: From Functional Monomers, Polymerization Systems, to Macromolecular Architectures

  Akira Hirao;Akira Hirao;Akira Hirao;Raita Goseki;Takashi Ishizone

  322
  Citations

• Recent advance in living anionic polymerization of functionalized styrene derivatives

  Akira Hirao;Surapich Loykulnant;Takashi Ishizone

  285
  Citations

• Synthesis of well-defined star-branched polymers by stepwise iterative methodology using living anionic polymerization

  Tomoya Higashihara;Mayumi Hayashi;Akira Hirao

  250
  Citations

• Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with chiral alkoxy-amineborane complexes

  Akira Hirao;Shinichi Itsuno;Seiichi Nakahama;Noboru Yamazaki

  247
  Citations

• Polymerization of monomers containing functional silyl groups. 5. Synthesis of new porous membranes with functional groups

  Jae Suk Lee;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  230
  Citations

• Asymmetric synthesis using chirally modified borohydrides. Part 3. Enantioselective reduction of ketones and oxime ethers with reagents prepared from borane and chiral amino alcohols

  Shinichi Itsuno;Michio Nakano;Koji Miyazaki;Hirofumi Masuda

  225
  Citations

• Catalytic Behavior of Optically Active Amino Alcohol–Borane Complex in the Enantioselective Reduction of Acetophenone Oxime O-Alkyl Ethers

  Shinichi Itsuno;Yoshiki Sakurai;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao

  219
  Citations

• Precise synthesis and surface structures of architectural per- and semifluorinated polymers with well-defined structures

  Akira Hirao;Kenji Sugiyama;Hideaki Yokoyama

  214
  Citations

• Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(–)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane

  Shinichi Itsuno;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  182
  Citations

• Polymerization of monomers containing functional groups protected by trialkylsilyl groups. 5. Synthesis of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) with a narrow molecular weight distribution by means of anionic living polymerization

  Akira Hirao;Hideshige Kato;Kazuo Yamaguchi;Seiichi Nakahama

  161
  Citations

• Asymmetric reduction of aliphatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(−)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane

  Shinichi Itsuno;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  145
  Citations

• Synthesis of Functionalized Asymmetric Star Polymers Containing Conductive Polyacetylene Segments by Living Anionic Polymerization

  Youliang Zhao;Tomoya Higashihara;Kenji Sugiyama;Akira Hirao

  142
  Citations

• Synthesis of polymers with amino end groups. 3. Reactions of anionic living polymers with α-halo-ι-aminoalkanes with a protected amino functionality

  Kenji Ueda;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  140
  Citations

• Complex macromolecular architectures : synthesis, characterization, and self-assembly

  Nikos Hadjichristidis;Akira Hirao;Yasuyuki Tezuka;Filip Du Prez

  139
  Citations

• Polymerization of monomers containing functional groups protected by trialkylsilyl groups, 4. Studies on anionic living polymerization of 4‐(tert‐butyldimethylsilyloxy)styrene

  Akira Hirao;Katsuhiko Takenaka;S. Packirisamy;Kazuo Yamaguchi

  139
  Citations

• Synthesis of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Homopolymers and Block Copolymers with Well-Defined Structures by Living Anionic Polymerization and Their Thermotropic Phase Behavior

  Masayuki Yamada;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama;Tsukasa Iguchi

  139
  Citations

• Anionic Synthesis of Well-Defined Poly(m-halomethylstyrene)s and Branched Polymers via Graft-onto Methodology

  Sang Woog Ryu;Akira Hirao

  137
  Citations

• Polymerization of monomers containing functional silyl groups. 7. Porous membranes with controlled microstructures

  Jae Suk Lee;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  126
  Citations

• Reaction Kinetics of End-Functionalized Chains at a Polystyrene/ Poly(methyl methacrylate) Interface

  Jonathan S. Schulze;Jeffrey J. Cernohous;Akira Hirao;Timothy P. Lodge

  126
  Citations

• PROTECTION AND POLYMERIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL MONOMERS: ANIONIC LIVING POLYMERIZATION OF PROTECTED MONOMERS

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  103
  Citations