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Kazuhisa Murata is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans the fields of organic chemistry, catalysis, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics addressed in their work include oxidative organic chemistry reactions, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and the properties and applications of ionic liquids.

Murata has contributed to scholarly publications with recent papers such as:

  • Selective synthesis of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes from allylic alcohols using oxidatively supplied hydrogen peroxide from electrochemical two-electron water oxidation (2025) in RSC Advances
  • Linked PDF of Table of Contents (2020) in Synlett

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Murata include:

  • Yoshihiro Kon
  • Y. Kimishima
  • Kazuhiro Sayama
  • Robert P. Wills
  • Victor Adebomi

The primary publication venues for Murata's work are the journals RSC Advances and Synlett.

Best Publications

  • Dehydration of ethanol into ethylene over solid acid catalysts

    Isao Takahara;Masahiro Saito;Megumu Inaba;Kazuhisa Murata

  • Catalytic Cracking of Naphtha to Light Olefins

    Y. Yoshimura;N. Kijima;T. Hayakawa;K. Murata

  • Hydrotreatment of Vegetable Oils to Produce Bio-Hydrogenated Diesel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas Fuel over Catalysts Containing Sulfided Ni–Mo and Solid Acids

    Yanyong Liu;Rogelio Sotelo-Boyás;Kazuhisa Murata;Tomoaki Minowa

  • Dehydrogenation of ethane with carbon dioxide over supported chromium oxide catalysts

    Shaobin Wang;K Murata;T Hayakawa;S Hamakawa

  • Production of Synthetic Diesel by Hydrotreatment of Jatropha Oils Using Pt−Re/H-ZSM-5 Catalyst

    Kazuhisa Murata;Yanyong Liu;Megumu Inaba;Isao Takahara

  • Development of high performance Cu/ZnO-based catalysts for methanol synthesis and the water-gas shift reaction

    Masahiro Saito;Kazuhisa Murata

  • Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane over Cr/ZSM-5 Catalysts Using CO2 as an Oxidant

    Naoki Mimura;Masaki Okamoto;Hiromi Yamashita;S. Ted Oyama;S. Ted Oyama

  • High-performance Cr/H-ZSM-5 catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene with CO2 as an oxidant

    Naoki Mimura;Isao Takahara;Megumu Inaba;Masaki Okamoto

  • Ethanol conversion to aromatic hydrocarbons over several zeolite catalysts

    Megumu Inaba;Kazuhisa Murata;Masahiro Saito;Isao Takahara

  • Steam reforming of methanol over Cu/CeO2 catalysts studied in comparison with Cu/ZnO and Cu/Zn(Al)O catalysts

    Yanyong Liu;Takashi Hayakawa;Tatsuo Tsunoda;Kunio Suzuki

  • Design of optically active selenium reagents having a chiral tertiary amino group and their application to asymmetric inter- and intramolecular oxyselenenylations

    Ken-ichi Fujita;Kazuhisa Murata;Michio Iwaoka;Shuji Tomoda

  • Hydrotreatment of Jatropha Oil to Produce Green Diesel over Trifunctional Ni–Mo/SiO2–Al2O3 Catalyst

    Yanyong Liu;Rogelio Sotelo-Boyas;Kazuhisa Murata;Tomoaki Minowa

  • Catalytic fast pyrolysis of jatropha wastes

    Kazuhisa Murata;Yanyong Liu;Megumu Inaba;Isao Takahara

  • Direct oxidation of benzene to phenol by molecular oxygen over catalytic systems containing Pd(OAc)2 and heteropolyacid immobilized on HMS or PIM

    Yanyong Liu;Kazuhisa Murata;Megumu Inaba

  • Development of novel highly active and sulphur-tolerant catalysts for steam reforming of liquid hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen

    Linsheng Wang;Kazuhisa Murata;Megumu Inaba

  • Production of olefins from ethanol by Fe-supported zeolite catalysts

    Megumu Inaba;Kazuhisa Murata;Masahiro Saito;Isao Takahara

  • Methanol decomposition to synthesis gas at low temperature over palladium supported on ceria–zirconia solid solutions

    Yanyong Liu;Takashi Hayakawa;Tomoko Ishii;Mikio Kumagai

  • Hydrogen production by gasification of cellulose over Ni catalysts supported on zeolites

    Megumu Inaba;Kazuhisa Murata;Masahiro Saito;Isao Takahara

  • Dynamic structural conversion in a spin-crossover cobalt(ii) compound with long alkyl chains.

    Shinya Hayami;Kazuhisa Murata;Daisuke Urakami;Yoshihiro Kojima

  • Liquid-phase oxidation of benzene to phenol by molecular oxygen over transition metal substituted polyoxometalate compounds

    Yanyong Liu;Kazuhisa Murata;Megumu Inaba

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaobin Wang
Shaobin Wang University of Adelaide
Fujita Kenichi
Fujita Kenichi Kyoto University
Kinya Sakanishi
Kinya Sakanishi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yuichiro Himeda
Yuichiro Himeda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Etsuko Fujita
Etsuko Fujita Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fujio Mizukami
Fujio Mizukami National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
James T. Muckerman
James T. Muckerman Brookhaven National Laboratory
Junji Nakamura
Junji Nakamura University of Tsukuba
S. Ted Oyama
S. Ted Oyama National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yoshihiro Sugi
Yoshihiro Sugi University of Queensland

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