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Hiromu Sakurai is affiliated with Kyoto Pharmaceutical University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a notable focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Additional areas of study include Biomedical Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their recent published works cover various topics in catalysis, molecular sensing, and supramolecular chemistry. These publications include:

  • Lewis acid-mediated Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • Anisotropic Contraction of a Polyaromatic Capsule and Its Cavity-Induced Compression Effect, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Disaggregation of a sumanene-containing fluorescent probe towards highly sensitive and specific detection of caesium cations, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Tris(ferrocenylmethidene)sumanene: synthesis, photophysical properties and applications for efficient caesium cation recognition in water, 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • Dual roles of cellulose monolith in the continuous-flow generation and support of gold nanoparticles for green catalyst, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers

Hiromu Sakurai's work often intersects with topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, fullerene chemistry and applications, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, molecular sensors and ion detection, luminescence and fluorescent materials, as well as supramolecular chemistry and complexes.

Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Yumi Yakiyama
  • Yuta Uetake
  • Takahisa Fujinaka
  • Mio Nishimura
  • Ryotaro Seki

Hiromu Sakurai has regularly published in prominent scientific venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Communications
  • Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Dalton Transactions

Best Publications

  • Antidiabetic vanadium(IV) and zinc(II) complexes

    Hiromu Sakurai;Yoshitane Kojima;Yutaka Yoshikawa;Kenji Kawabe

  • An antitumor promoter from Moringa oleifera Lam.

    Amelia P. Guevara;Carolyn Vargas;Hiromu Sakurai;Yasuhiro Fujiwara

  • Hypervalent Iodine-Induced Nucleophilic Substitution of para-Substituted Phenol Ethers. Generation of Cation Radicals as Reactive Intermediates

    Yasuyuki Kita;Hirofumi Tohma;Kenji Hatanaka;Takeshi Takada

  • Overexpression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase accelerates atherosclerotic lesion formation in apoE-deficient mice.

    Masanori Ozaki;Seinosuke Kawashima;Tomoya Yamashita;Tetsuaki Hirase

  • Involvement of NADH/NADPH Oxidase in Human Platelet ROS Production

    Tadashi Seno;Nobutaka Inoue;Dayaun Gao;Masanori Okuda

  • Active-Oxygen Scavenging Activity of Plant Extracts

    Hitoshi Masaki;Sachiko Sakaki;Takamasa Atsumi;Hiromu Sakurai

  • Orally active and long-term acting insulin-mimetic vanadyl complex:bis(picolinato)oxovanadium (IV).

    H. Sakurai;K. Fujii;H. Watanabe;H. Tamura

  • Detection of hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals in murine skin fibroblasts under UVB irradiation.

    Hitoshi Masaki;Takamasa Atsumi;Hiromu Sakurai

  • Mechanism on Insulin-Like Action of Vanadyl Sulfate : Studies on Interaction between Rat Adipocytes and Vanadium Compounds

    Masami Nakai;Hiromi Watanabe;Chikako Fujiwara;Hisao Kakegawa

  • Insulin-like effect of vanadyl ion on streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

    H. Sakurai;K. Tsuchiya;M. Nukatsuka;M. Sofue

  • A new concept: the use of vanadium complexes in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

    Hiromu Sakurai

  • Biospeciation of antidiabetic VO(IV) complexes

    Tamás Kiss;Tamás Kiss;Tamás Jakusch;Dominik Hollender;Ágnes Dörnyei

  • Mechanism for a New Antitumor Vanadium Complex: Hydroxyl Radical-Dependent DNA Cleavage by 1,10-Phenanthroline Vanadyl Complex in the Presence of Hydrogen Peroxide

    H. Sakurai;H. Tamura;K. Okatani

  • Lysophosphatidylcholine increases the secretion of matrix metalloproteinase 2 through the activation of NADH/NADPH oxidase in cultured aortic endothelial cells

    Nobutaka Inoue;Saori Takeshita;Dayaun Gao;Tatsuro Ishida

  • Insulin-Mimetic Action of Vanadyl Complexes

    Hiromu Sakurai;Koichiro Tsuchiya;Mamoru Nukatsuka;Jun Kawada

  • Development of new insulinomimetic zinc(II) picolinate complexes with a Zn(N2O2) coordination mode: structure characterization, in vitro, and in vivo studies.

    Yutaka Yoshikawa;Eriko Ueda;Kenji Kawabe;Hiroyuki Miyake

  • SOD activities of the copper complexes with tripodal polypyridylamine ligands having a hydrogen bonding site

    Koichiro Jitsukawa;Manabu Harata;Hidekazu Arii;Hiromu Sakurai

  • Relationship between copper, zinc and metallothionein in hepatocellular carcinoma and its surrounding liver parenchyma.

    Masaaki Ebara;Hiroyuki Fukuda;Ryouji Hatano;Hiromitsu Saisho

  • A new orally active insulin-mimetic vanadyl complex: bis(pyrrolidine-N-carbodithioato)oxovanadium (IV).

    Hiromi Watanabe;Masami Nakai;Kyoko Komazawa;Hiromu Sakurai

  • An orally active antidiabetic vanadyl complex, bis(1-oxy-2-pyridinethiolato)oxovanadium(IV), with VO(S2O2) coordination mode; in vitro and in vivo evaluations in rats.

    Hiromu Sakurai;Hiromi Sano;Toshikazu Takino;Hiroyuki Yasui

  • Long-Term Acting and Orally Active Vanadyl-Methylpicolinate Complex with Hypoglycemic Activity in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats.

    Seiki Fujimoto;Kumiko Fujii;Hiroyuki Yasui;Rokuji Matsushita

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapan Kumar Saha
Tapan Kumar Saha University of Queensland
Dieter Rehder
Dieter Rehder Universität Hamburg
Tamás Kiss
Tamás Kiss University of Szeged
Koichiro Tsuchiya
Koichiro Tsuchiya University of Tokushima
Eugenio Garribba
Eugenio Garribba University of Sassari
Mitsuhiro Yokoyama
Mitsuhiro Yokoyama Kobe University
Shinya Toyokuni
Shinya Toyokuni Nagoya University
Kuo Hsiung Lee
Kuo Hsiung Lee University of Minnesota
Chris Orvig
Chris Orvig University of British Columbia
Csaba Szabó
Csaba Szabó University of Fribourg

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