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Kazuaki Ishihara

Kazuaki Ishihara

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
93
Citations
28013
World Ranking
1812
National Ranking
95

Kazuaki Ishihara publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazuaki Ishihara sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 488 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Kazuaki Ishihara D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazuaki Ishihara sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kazuaki Ishihara is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research output includes a substantial number of publications focusing on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, along with work in Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and aspects of Molecular Biology.

The primary research topics associated with Ishihara's work include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions

Frequent publication venues where Ishihara's research appears are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ishihara include:

  • Chemoselective oxidative generation of ortho-quinone methides and tandem transformations, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Chemo- and Enantioselective Oxidative α-Azidation of Carbonyl Compounds, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Hypoiodite-Catalyzed Oxidative Umpolung of Indoles for Enantioselective Dearomatization, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Multifactor Control of Vinyl Monomer Sequence, Molecular Weight, and Tacticity via Iterative Radical Additions and Olefin Metathesis Reactions, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Enantio- and Diastereoselective Carbonyl-Ene Cyclization-Acetalization Tandem Reaction Catalyzed by Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane-Assisted Chiral Phosphoric Acids, 2021, ACS Catalysis

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Muhammet Uyanik
  • Takahiro Horibe
  • Manabu Hatano
  • Kai Matsui
  • Hiroki Tanaka

Best Publications

  • Cover Picture: Structurally Defined Molecular Hypervalent Iodine Catalysts for Intermolecular Enantioselective Reactions (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2016)

    Stefan Haubenreisser;Thorsten H. Wöste;Claudio Martínez;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Asymmetric Direct Aldol Reaction Assisted by Water and a Proline‐Derived Tetrazole Catalyst

    Hiromi Torii;Masakazu Nakadai;Kazuaki Ishihara;Susumu Saito

  • 3,4,5-Trifluorobenzeneboronic Acid as an Extremely Active Amidation Catalyst.

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Suguru Ohara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Scandium Trifluoromethanesulfonate as an Extremely Active Lewis Acid Catalyst in Acylation of Alcohols with Acid Anhydrides and Mixed Anhydrides.

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Manabu Kubota;Hideki Kurihara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Enantioselective Kita Oxidative Spirolactonization Catalyzed by In Situ Generated Chiral Hypervalent Iodine(III) Species

    Muhammet Uyanik;Takeshi Yasui;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Hypervalent iodine-mediated oxidation of alcohols

    Muhammet Uyanik;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Quaternary Ammonium (Hypo)iodite Catalysis for Enantioselective Oxidative Cycloetherification

    Muhammet Uyanik;Hiroaki Okamoto;Takeshi Yasui;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Enantioselective halocyclization of polyprenoids induced by nucleophilic phosphoramidites

    Akira Sakakura;Atsushi Ukai;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Direct Condensation of Carboxylic Acids with Alcohols Catalyzed by Hafnium(IV) Salts

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Suguru Ohara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • In situ generated (hypo)iodite catalysts for the direct α-oxyacylation of carbonyl compounds with carboxylic acids.

    Muhammet Uyanik;Daisuke Suzuki;Takeshi Yasui;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • 2-Iodoxybenzenesulfonic Acid as an Extremely Active Catalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Alcohols to Aldehydes, Ketones, Carboxylic Acids, and Enones with Oxone

    Muhammet Uyanik;Matsujiro Akakura;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Highly enantioselective catalytic Diels-Alder addition promoted by a chiral bis(oxazoline)-magnesium complex

    E.J. Corey;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • SCANDIUM TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONATE AS AN EXTREMELY ACTIVE ACYLATION CATALYST

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Manabu Kubota;Hideki Kurihara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • A New Chiral BLA Promoter for Asymmetric Aza Diels-Alder and Aldol-Type Reactions of Imines

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Mayumi Miyata;Kouji Hattori;Toshiji Tada

  • ARYLBORON COMPOUNDS AS ACID CATALYSTS IN ORGANIC SYNTHETIC TRANSFORMATIONS

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Widely Useful DMAP-Catalyzed Esterification under Auxiliary Base- and Solvent-Free Conditions

    Akira Sakakura;Kimio Kawajiri;Takuro Ohkubo;Yuji Kosugi

  • Catalysis with In Situ-Generated (Hypo)iodite Ions for Oxidative Coupling Reactions

    Muhammet Uyanik;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Which Is the Actual Catalyst: Chiral Phosphoric Acid or Chiral Calcium Phosphate?

    Manabu Hatano;Katsuhiko Moriyama;Toshikatsu Maki;Kazuaki Ishihara

  • Cyanuric chloride as a mild and active Beckmann rearrangement catalyst.

    Yoshiro Furuya;Kazuaki Ishihara;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Design of an organocatalyst for the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction with alpha-acyloxyacroleins.

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Kazuhiko Nakano

  • Rhenium(VII) Oxo Complexes as Extremely Active Catalysts in the Dehydration of Primary Amides and Aldoximes to Nitriles

    Kazuaki Ishihara;Yoshiro Furuya;Hisashi Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hisashi Yamamoto
Hisashi Yamamoto Chubu University
Susumu Saito
Susumu Saito Nagoya University
Atsunori Mori
Atsunori Mori Kobe University
Kilian Muñiz
Kilian Muñiz Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Shigeki Matsunaga
Shigeki Matsunaga Kyoto University
Clayton H. Heathcock
Clayton H. Heathcock University of California, Berkeley
E. J. Corey
E. J. Corey Harvard University
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki University of Tokyo
Takao Ikariya
Takao Ikariya Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kotaro Satoh
Kotaro Satoh Tokyo Institute of Technology

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