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Katsuhiro Maeda

Katsuhiro Maeda

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Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
14504
World Ranking
10496
National Ranking
765

Overview

Katsuhiro Maeda is affiliated with Kanazawa University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research focuses primarily on organic chemistry and materials chemistry, with additional work in biomaterials, spectroscopy, and molecular biology.

The scientist's recent publications highlight a strong orientation towards the synthesis and structural characterization of complex helical polymers and materials exhibiting chiral properties. Notable recent papers include:

  • Helix-Sense-Selective Synthesis of Right- and Left-Handed Helical Luminescent Poly(diphenylacetylene)s with Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity and Their Helical Structures (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Spin Filtering Along Chiral Polymers (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Helical Polymers with Dynamic and Static Macromolecular Helicity Memory: The Power of Helicity Memory for Helical Polymer Synthesis and Applications (2021, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan)
  • Highly selective and straightforward recovery of gold and platinum from acidic waste effluents using cellulose-based bio-adsorbent (2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Emergence of Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Activity in a Helical Polymer Mediated by Deracemization of Racemic Pendants (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Throughout their career, Katsuhiro Maeda has published frequently in leading journals, including:

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

They often collaborate with researchers such as Tatsuya Nishimura, Tsuyoshi Taniguchi, Eiji Yashima, Shigehisa Akine, and Daisuke Hirose.

Katsuhiro Maeda's scientific output covers major topics linked to aromatic compound synthesis and properties, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, luminescence and fluorescent materials, and axial and atropisomeric chirality synthesis.

Best Publications

  • Supramolecular Helical Systems: Helical Assemblies of Small Molecules, Foldamers, and Polymers with Chiral Amplification and Their Functions

    Eiji Yashima;Naoki Ousaka;Daisuke Taura;Kouhei Shimomura

  • Helical polymers: synthesis, structures, and functions

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Hiroki Iida;Yoshio Furusho

  • Memory of macromolecular helicity assisted by interaction with achiral small molecules

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Detection and Amplification of Chirality by Helical Polymers

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Tatsuya Nishimura

  • Single- and Double-Stranded Helical Polymers: Synthesis, Structures, and Functions

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Yoshio Furusho

  • Chirality-Responsive Helical Polymers

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda

  • Switchable enantioseparation based on macromolecular memory of a helical polyacetylene in the solid state

    Kouhei Shimomura;Tomoyuki Ikai;Shigeyoshi Kanoh;Eiji Yashima

  • Dynamic helical structures : Detection and amplification of chirality

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Eiji Yashima

  • Switching of Macromolecular Helicity of Optically Active Poly(phenylacetylene)s Bearing Cyclodextrin Pendants Induced by Various External Stimuli

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Hiroaki Mochizuki;Masaki Watanabe;Eiji Yashima

  • Switching of a macromolecular helicity for visual distinction of molecular recognition events.

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Osamu Sato

  • Mechanism of helix induction on a stereoregular Poly((4-carboxyphenyl)acetylene) with chiral amines and memory of the macromolecular helicity assisted by interaction with achiral amines.

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Kazuhide Morino;Yoshio Okamoto;Takahiro Sato

  • A helical polyelectrolyte induced by specific interactions with biomolecules in water.

    Hisanari Onouchi;Katsuhiro Maeda;Eiji Yashima

  • An Unprecedented Memory of Macromolecular Helicity Induced in an Achiral Polyisocyanide in Water

    Masayoshi Ishikawa;Katsuhiro Maeda;Yuuki Mitsutsuji;Eiji Yashima

  • Enantioselective esterification of prochiral phosphonate pendants of a polyphenylacetylene assisted by macromolecular helicity: storage of a dynamic macromolecular helicity memory.

    Hisanari Onouchi;Toyoharu Miyagawa;Akira Furuko;Katsuhiro Maeda

  • Mechanism of helix induction in poly(4-carboxyphenyl isocyanide) with chiral amines and memory of the macromolecular helicity and its helical structures.

    Yoko Hase;Kanji Nagai;Hiroki Iida;Katsuhiro Maeda

  • Unexpectedly Strong Chiral Amplification of Chiral/Achiral and Chiral/Chiral Copolymers of Biphenylylacetylenes and Further Enhancement/Inversion and Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity.

    Ryoma Ishidate;Albert J Markvoort;Katsuhiro Maeda;Eiji Yashima

  • Poly(phenylacetylene)s Bearing a Peptide Pendant: Helical Conformational Changes of the Polymer Backbone Stimulated by the Pendant Conformational Change

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Nobuto Kamiya;Eiji Yashima

  • Direct Detection of Hardly Detectable Hidden Chirality of Hydrocarbons and Deuterated Isotopomers by a Helical Polyacetylene through Chiral Amplification and Memory

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Daisuke Hirose;Natsuki Okoshi;Kouhei Shimomura

  • Helix-sense inversion of poly(phenylacetylene) derivatives bearing an optically active substituent induced by external chiral and achiral stimuli

    Kazuhide Morino;Katsuhiro Maeda;Eiji Yashima

  • Synthesis and Conformational Characteristics of Poly(phenyl isocyanate)s Bearing an Optically Active Ester Group

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Synthesis and Macromolecular Helicity Induction of a Stereoregular Polyacetylene Bearing a Carboxy Group with Natural Amino Acids in Water

    Mitsuo Albert Saito;Katsuhiro Maeda;Hisanari Onouchi;Eiji Yashima

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiji Yashima
Eiji Yashima Nagoya University
Yoshio Okamoto
Yoshio Okamoto Nagoya University
Takahiro Sato
Takahiro Sato Osaka University
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
Yoshio Furusho
Yoshio Furusho Shiga University of Medical Science
Steven J. Geib
Steven J. Geib University of Pittsburgh
Hideyuki Murata
Hideyuki Murata Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Hyung Joon Kim
Hyung Joon Kim Kyungpook National University
Zvi Rappoport
Zvi Rappoport Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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