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Isao Kuwajima

Isao Kuwajima

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Chemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
10113
World Ranking
12206
National Ranking
914

Overview

Isao Kuwajima is affiliated with Kitasato University in Japan and specializes in materials science. Their research primarily focuses on materials chemistry, with additional interests in molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, computational theory and mathematics, and surfaces, coatings and films.

The body of work by Isao Kuwajima includes eight publications related to machine learning in materials science, covering a range of interdisciplinary topics such as metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, medical imaging techniques and applications, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, computational drug discovery methods, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, and the chemistry and processing of radioactive elements.

Recent papers by Isao Kuwajima include the following:

  • NIMS polymer database PoLyInfo (I): an overarching view of half a million data points, 2024, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Methods
  • Scaling law of Sim2Real transfer learning in expanding computational materials databases for real-world predictions, 2025, npj Computational Materials
  • Discovery of liquid crystalline polymers with high thermal conductivity using machine learning, 2025, npj Computational Materials
  • Scaling Law of Sim2Real Transfer Learning in Expanding Computational Materials Databases for Real-World Predictions, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Create the database of the photoemission yield spectroscopy(PYS), 2023, Journal of Surface Analysis

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Masashi Ishii
  • Shunya Minami
  • Yoshihiro Hayashi
  • Stephen Wu
  • Kenji Fukumizu

Isao Kuwajima's publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • npj Computational Materials
  • Journal of Surface Analysis
  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Methods
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Machine-learning-assisted discovery of polymers with high thermal conductivity using a molecular design algorithm

    Stephen Wu;Yukiko Kondo;Masa-aki Kakimoto;Bin Yang

  • Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Taxol

    Hiroyuki Kusama;Ryoma Hara;Shigeru Kawahara;Toshiyuki Nishimori

  • Carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions of zinc homoenolate of esters. A novel three-carbon nucleophile with general synthetic utility

    Eiichi Nakamura;Satoshi Aoki;Kouichi Sekiya;Hiroji Oshino

  • Me3SiCl/HMPA accelerated conjugate addition of catalytic copper reagent. Stereoselective synthesis of enol silyl ether of aldehyde

    Yoshiaki Horiguchi;Satoshi Matsuzawa;Eiichi Nakamura;Isao Kuwajima

  • Me3SiCl accelerated conjugate addition of stoichiometric organocopper reagents

    Eiichi Nakamura;Satoshi Matsuzawa;Yoshiaki Horiguchi;Isao Kuwajima

  • Chlorosilane-accelerated conjugate addition of catalytic and stoichiometric organocopper reagents

    Satoshi Matsuzawa;Yoshiaki Horiguchi;Eiichi Nakamura;Isao Kuwajima

  • Fluoride ion catalyzed aldol reaction between enol silyl ethers and carbonyl compounds

    R. Noyori;K. Yokoyama;J. Sakata;Isao Kuwajima

  • Copper-catalyzed acylation and conjugate addition of zinc homoenolate. Synthesis of 4- and 5-oxo esters

    Eiichi Nakamura;Isao Kuwajima

  • Reactive enolates from enol silyl ethers

    Isao Kuwajima;Eiichi Nakamura

  • Quaternary ammonium enolates as synthetic intermediates. Regiospecific alkylation reaction of ketones

    Isao Kuwajima;Eiichi Nakamura

  • Quaternary ammonium enolates as synthetic intermediates. Trimethylsilylacetate: a new class of silylating reagent for ketones and alcohols

    Eiichi Nakamura;Toshiaki Murofushi;Makoto Shimizu;Isao Kuwajima

  • Fluoride ion catalyzed aldol reaction between enol silyl ethers and carbonyl compounds

    Eiichi Nakamura;Makoto Shimizu;Isao Kuwajima;J. Sakata

  • Total synthesis of ingenol.

    Keiji Tanino;Kei Onuki;Kohei Asano;Masaaki Miyashita

  • Regioselective arylation of silyl enol ethers of methyl ketones with aryl bromides

    Isao Kuwajima;Hirokazu Urabe

  • Palladium-catalyzed arylation of siloxycyclopropanes with aryl triflates. Carbon chain elongation via catalytic carbon-carbon bond cleavage

    Satoshi. Aoki;Tsutomu. Fujimura;Eiichi. Nakamura;Isao. Kuwajima

  • Fluoride-mediated reactions of enol silyl ethers. Regiospecific monoalkylation of ketones

    Isao Kuwajima;Eiichi Nakamura;Makoto Shimizu

  • Total Synthesis of (−)-Coriolin

    Hajime Mizuno;Kei Domon;Keiichi Masuya;Keiji Tanino

  • Homoenolate anion precursor. Reaction of ester homoenol silyl ether with carbonyl compounds

    Eiichi Nakamura;Isao Kuwajima

  • General method for generation of 3-siloxyallylmetallic species and their synthetic application

    Jun Enda;Isao Kuwajima

  • Preparation and Properties of Highly Electron-accepting Poly(pyrimidine-2,5-diyl)

    Takaki Kanbara;Takashi Kushida;Nobuo Saito;Isao Kuwajima

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiichi Nakamura
Eiichi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Satoshi Omura
Satoshi Omura Kitasato University
Yuji Ohashi
Yuji Ohashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Teruaki Mukaiyama Kitasato University
Haruki Yamada
Haruki Yamada Kitasato University
Kazuro Shiomi
Kazuro Shiomi Kitasato University
E. J. Corey
E. J. Corey Harvard University
Takaki Kanbara
Takaki Kanbara University of Tsukuba
Shigeru Yamago
Shigeru Yamago Kyoto University
Takashi Tsuruo
Takashi Tsuruo Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research

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