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D-Index
52
Citations
10587
World Ranking
13447
National Ranking
1023

Best Publications

  • Transesterification

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  • Novel template effects of distannoxane catalysts in highly efficient transesterification and esterification

    Junzo Otera;Nobuhisa Danoh;Hitosi Nozaki

  • 119Sn Chemical Shifts in five- and six-coordinate organotin chelates

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  • Highly Efficient and Versatile Acylation of Alcohols with Bi(OTf)3 as Catalyst

    Akihiro Orita;Chiaki Tanahashi;Atsushi Kakuda;Junzo Otera

  • Toward Ideal (Trans)Esterification by Use of Fluorous Distannoxane Catalysts

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  • Highly powerful and practical acylation of alcohols with acid anhydride catalyzed by Bi(OTf)(3).

    Akihiro Orita;Chiaki Tanahashi;and Atsushi Kakuda;Junzo Otera

  • Electron-transfer oxidation of 9-substituted 10-methyl-9,10-dihydroacridines. Cleavage of the carbon-hydrogen vs. carbon-carbon bond of the radical cations

    Shunichi Fukuzumi;Yoshihiro Tokuda;Toshiaki Kitano;Toshihiko Okamoto

  • Distannoxane-Catalyzed Highly Selective Acylation of Alcohols.

    Akihiro Orita;and Akihiro Mitsutome;Junzo Otera

  • Allylation of aldehydes and ketones in the presence of water by allylic bromides, metallic tin, and aluminum

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  • Tin in Organic Synthesis

    Akihiro Orita;Junzo Otera

  • Mild and practical acylation of alcohols with esters or acetic anhydride under distannoxane catalysis

    Akihiro Orita;Katsumasa Sakamoto;Yuji Hamada;Akihiro Mitsutome

  • A Practical and Green Chemical Process: Fluoroalkyldistannoxane‐Catalyzed Biphasic Transesterification

    Jiannan Xiang;Shinji Toyoshima;Akihiro Orita;Junzo Otera

  • Extended halogen bonding between fully fluorinated aromatic molecules.

    Shigeki Kawai;Shigeki Kawai;Ali Sadeghi;Ali Sadeghi;Feng Xu;Lifen Peng

  • Electron-transfer oxidation of ketene silyl acetals and other organosilanes. Mechanistic insight into Lewis acid mediated electron transfer

    Shunichi Fukuzumi;Morifumi Fujita;Junzo Otera;Yukihiro Fujita

  • Solventless reaction dramatically accelerates supramolecular self-assembly

    Akihiro Orita;Lasheng Jiang;Takehiko Nakano;Nianchun Ma

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Lewis Acidity of Metal Ions with Different Ligands and Counterions in Relation to the Promoting Effects of Lewis Acids on Electron Transfer Reduction of Oxygen

    Kei Ohkubo;Saija C. Menon;Akihiro Orita;Junzo Otera

  • Novel distannoxane-catalyzed transesterification and a new entry to α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acids

    Unknown

  • Metal-assisted assembly of pyridine-containing arylene ethynylene strands to enantiopure double helicates.

    Akihiro Orita;Takehiro Nakano;De Lie An;Kazumi Tanikawa

  • Organotin triflate promoted carbonyl activation. Does acetalization deactivate or activate carbonyl groups

    Tsuneo Sato;Junzo Otera;Hitosi Nozaki

  • Importance of Lewis acid mediated electron transfer in Mukaiyama-Michael reaction of ketene silyl acetals

    Tsuneo Sato;Yoshiyuki Wakahara;Junzo Otera;Hitosi Nozaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hitosi Nozaki
Hitosi Nozaki Okayama University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Klaus Jurkschat
Klaus Jurkschat TU Dortmund University
Chihaya Adachi
Chihaya Adachi Kyushu University
Takeshi Nakai
Takeshi Nakai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kei Ohkubo
Kei Ohkubo Osaka University
Hideo Takezoe
Hideo Takezoe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ken Ishikawa
Ken Ishikawa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hajime Nakanotani
Hajime Nakanotani Kyushu University
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University

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