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Akira Sekiguchi

Akira Sekiguchi

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
15882
World Ranking
5924
National Ranking
372

Overview

Akira Sekiguchi is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Their research spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry

Sekiguchi's research has been published across various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent notable papers include:

  • From a (Silatrigerma)cyclobutenylium Ion to a (Silatrigerma)cyclobutenyl Radical and Back, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Radical Hydrodehalogenation of Aryl Halides with H2 Catalyzed by a Phenanthroline-Based PNNP Cobalt(I) Complex, 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • 1-Chloroalumole, 2022, Organometallics
  • Co(i) complexes with a tetradentate phenanthroline-based PNNP ligand as a potent new metal-ligand cooperation platform, 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • Titanium Germylidenes, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sekiguchi include:

  • Vladimir Ya. Lee
  • Heinz Gornitzka
  • Olga A. Gapurenko
  • Ruslan M. Minyaev
  • Nai-Yuan Jheng

Best Publications

  • A stable compound containing a silicon-silicon triple bond.

    Akira Sekiguchi;Rei Kinjo;Masaaki Ichinohe

  • Organometallic Compounds of Low-Coordinate Si, Ge, Sn and Pb: From Phantom Species to Stable Compounds

    Vladimir Ya. Lee;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Reactivity of a Disilyne RSi≡SiR (R = SiiPr[CH(SiMe3)2]2) toward π-Bonds: Stereospecific Addition and a New Route to an Isolable 1,2-Disilabenzene

    Rei Kinjo;Masaaki Ichinohe;Akira Sekiguchi;Nozomi Takagi

  • A free cyclotrigermenium cation with a 2π-electron system

    Akira Sekiguchi;Masanori Tsukamoto;Masaaki Ichinohe

  • Aromaticity of group 14 organometallics : Experimental aspects

    Vladimir Ya. Lee;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Heavy cyclopropenes of Si, Ge, and Sn--a new challenge in the chemistry of group 14 elements.

    Akira Sekiguchi;Vladimir Ya. Lee

  • Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 293. Preparation, characterization, and crystal structures of octasilacubanes and octagermacubanes

    Akira Sekiguchi;Tetsuo Yatabe;Hirokazu Kamatani;Chizuko Kabuto

  • Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 303. The missing hexasilaprismane: synthesis, x-ray analysis and photochemical reactions

    Akira Sekiguchi;Tetsuo Yatabe;Chizuko Kabuto;Hideki Sakurai

  • An isolable disilyne anion radical and a new route to the disilenide ion upon reduction of a disilyne.

    Rei Kinjo;Masaaki Ichinohe;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Lithiosilanes and their application to the synthesis of polysilane dendrimers

    Akira Sekiguchi;Vladimir Ya. Lee;Masato Nanjo

  • Stable silyl, germyl, and stannyl cations, radicals, and anions: heavy versions of carbocations, carbon radicals, and carbanions.

    Vladimir Ya. Lee;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Isolable Silyl and Germyl Radicals Lacking Conjugation with π-Bonds: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity

    Akira Sekiguchi;Tomohide Fukawa;Masaaki Nakamoto;Vladimir Ya Lee

  • Heteronuclear Heavy Alkenes E=E' (E, E' = Group 14 Elements): Germasilenes, Silastannenes, Germastannenes...Next Stop?

    Vladimir Ya. Lee;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Cyclotrisilenylium ion : The persilaaromatic compound

    Masaaki Ichinohe;Masayasu Igarashi;Kaori Sanuki;Akira Sekiguchi

  • The Chemistry of Disilyne with a Genuine Si–Si Triple Bond: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity

    Akira Sekiguchi;Masaaki Ichinohe;Rei Kinjo

  • The Homocyclotrisilenylium Ion: A Free Silyl Cation in the Condensed Phase

    Akira Sekiguchi;and Tadahiro Matsuno;Masaaki Ichinohe

  • Disilenyllithium from Tetrasila-1,3-butadiene: A Silicon Analogue of a Vinyllithium

    Masaaki Ichinohe;Kaori Sanuki;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Synthesis and Characterization of a Cyclobutadiene Dianion Dilithium Salt: Evidence for Aromaticity

    Akira Sekiguchi;and Tsukasa Matsuo;Hidetoshi Watanabe

  • Tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)tetrahedrane.

    Günther Maier;Jörg Neudert;Oliver Wolf;Dirk Pappusch

  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of Cyclotrisilene: A Three-Membered Ring Compound with a Si-Si Double Bond.

    Masaaki Ichinohe;Tadahiro Matsuno;Akira Sekiguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideki Sakurai
Hideki Sakurai Tokyo University of Science
Chizuko Kabuto
Chizuko Kabuto Tohoku University
Shigeyoshi Inoue
Shigeyoshi Inoue Technical University of Munich
Shigeru Nagase
Shigeru Nagase Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yitzhak Apeloig
Yitzhak Apeloig Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
David Scheschkewitz
David Scheschkewitz Saarland University
Masayoshi Nakano
Masayoshi Nakano Osaka University
Volker Huch
Volker Huch Saarland University
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking Philipp University of Marburg

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