Ken Sakai

Overview

Best Publications

• A photo-hydrogen-evolving molecular device driving visible-light-induced EDTA-reduction of water into molecular hydrogen.

  Hironobu Ozawa;Masa Aki Haga;Ken Sakai

  480
  Citations

• The use of aurophilic and other metal–metal interactions as crystal engineering design elements to increase structural dimensionality

  Michael J. Katz;Ken Sakai;Daniel B. Leznoff

  405
  Citations

• The Direct and Enantioselective, One-Pot, Three-Component, Cross-Mannich Reaction of Aldehydes†

  Yujiro Hayashi;Wataru Tsuboi;Itaru Ashimine;Tatsuya Urushima

  383
  Citations

• Homogeneous catalysis of platinum(II) complexes in photochemical hydrogen production from water

  Ken Sakai;Hironobu Ozawa

  344
  Citations

• Cobalt porphyrins as homogeneous catalysts for water oxidation

  Takashi Nakazono;Alexander Rene Parent;Alexander Rene Parent;Ken Sakai;Ken Sakai

  338
  Citations

• Photo-hydrogen-evolving molecular devices driving visible-light-induced water reduction into molecular hydrogen: structure–activity relationship and reaction mechanism

  Hironobu Ozawa;Ken Sakai

  323
  Citations

• Construction of Pseudo-Heterochiral and Homochiral Di-μ-oxotitanium(Schiff base) Dimers and Enantioselective Epoxidation Using Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide

  Kazuhiro Matsumoto;Yuji Sawada;Bunnai Saito;Ken Sakai

  240
  Citations

• Highly Efficient and Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO in Water by a Cobalt Porphyrin Molecular Catalyst

  Arnau Call;Mihaela Cibian;Keiya Yamamoto;Takashi Nakazono

  237
  Citations

• Clear Evidence Showing the Robustness of a Highly Active Oxygen-evolving Mononuclear Ruthenium Complex with an Aqua Ligand

  Shigeyuki Masaoka;Ken Sakai

  227
  Citations

• Visible light-induced water oxidation catalyzed by molybdenum-based polyoxometalates with mono- and dicobalt(III) cores as oxygen-evolving centers.

  Saya Tanaka;Masahiko Annaka;Ken Sakai

  220
  Citations

• Inside Cover: Near-Infrared Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution from Water Using a Polypyridyl Triruthenium Photosensitizer (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2018)

  Yutaro Tsuji;Keiya Yamamoto;Kosei Yamauchi;Ken Sakai

  171
  Citations

• Structures and Reactivities of Platinum-Blues and the Related Amidate-Bridged Platinumiii Compounds

  Kazuko Matsumoto;Ken Sakai

  170
  Citations

• Progress in Base‐Metal Water Oxidation Catalysis

  Alexander R.ene Parent;Ken Sakai;Ken Sakai

  159
  Citations

• Syntheses, characterization, and photo-hydrogen-evolving properties of tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) derivatives tethered to a cis-Pt(II)Cl2 unit: insights into the structure–activity relationship

  Hironobu Ozawa;Yuki Yokoyama;Masa Aki Haga;Ken Sakai

  149
  Citations

• Syntheses and properties of emissive iridium(III) complexes with tridentate benzimidazole derivatives.

  Tomona Yutaka;Shinya Obara;Satoshi Ogawa;Koichi Nozaki

  148
  Citations

• Catalysis of mononuclear aquaruthenium complexes in oxygen evolution from water: a new radical coupling path using hydroxocerium(IV) species.

  Masaki Yoshida;Shigeyuki Masaoka;Shigeyuki Masaoka;Jiro Abe;Ken Sakai

  135
  Citations

• Tuning of redox potentials by introducing a cyclometalated bond to bis-tridentate ruthenium(II) complexes bearing bis(N-methylbenzimidazolyl)benzene or -pyridine ligands.

  Wen Wen Yang;Yu Wu Zhong;Shinpei Yoshikawa;Jiang Yang Shao

  131
  Citations

• Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Electronic, ESR, and x-ray Photoelectron Spectra of Acetamidate-and 2-Fluoroacetamidate-Bridged Mixed-Valent Octanuclear Platinum Blues

  Kazuko Matsumoto;Ken Sakai;Kyosuke Nishio;Yasuhiro Tokisue

  128
  Citations

• New Structural Aspects of α-Pyrrolidinonate- and α-Pyridonate-Bridged, Homo- and Mixed-Valence, Di- and Tetranuclear cis-Diammineplatinum Complexes: Eight New Crystal Structures, Stoichiometric 1:1 Mixture of Pt(2.25+)4 and Pt(2.5+)4, New Quasi-One-Dimensional Halide-Bridged [Pt(2.5+)4-Cl···]∞ System, and Consideration of Solution Properties

  Ken Sakai;Yuko Tanaka;Yuriko Tsuchiya;Kentaro Hirata

  126
  Citations

• Photochemical CO2 Reduction Driven by Water-Soluble Copper(I) Photosensitizer with the Catalysis Accelerated by Multi-Electron Chargeable Cobalt Porphyrin

  Xian Zhang;Mihaela Cibian;Mihaela Cibian;Arnau Call;Kosei Yamauchi;Kosei Yamauchi

  120
  Citations

• Kinetics and DFT studies on water oxidation by Ce4+ catalyzed by [Ru(terpy)(bpy)(OH2)]2+.

  Ayano Kimoto;Kosei Yamauchi;Masaki Yoshida;Shigeyuki Masaoka;Shigeyuki Masaoka

  117
  Citations