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Overview

Koichi Mikami is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and has a significant publication record in the fields of Materials Science, with a concentrated focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research integrates aspects of Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical Science, and Biomaterials.

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions

Koichi Mikami's recent papers include:

  • "An N-Fluorinated Imide for Practical Catalytic Imidations," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Bench-Stable Electrophilic Fluorinating Reagents for Highly Selective Mono- and Difluorination of Silyl Enol Ethers," 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Difluorination of heterobenzylic C-H bonds with N-fluoro-N-(fluorosulfonyl)carbamate (NFC)," 2023, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Methyl to trifluoromethyl substitution as a strategy to increase the membrane permeability of short peptides," 2021, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • "Copper-Catalyzed Aminoazidation of Alkenes with NFC: One-step Vicinal Functionalization for CuAAC and SuFEx Reactions," 2023, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, which suggests ongoing partnerships and contributions to multi-author projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Takashi Okazoe
  • Akiya Adachi
  • Kyoko Nozaki
  • Yuki Ito
  • Yuichiro Ishibashi

Koichi Mikami publishes regularly in well-recognized scientific venues, with the highest number of contributions found in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other notable publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ChemBioChem
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Best Publications

  • ASYMMETRIC ENE REACTIONS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

    Koichi Mikami;Masaki Shimizu

  • Fluorinated Carbonyl and Olefinic Compounds: Basic Character and Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions†

    Koichi Mikami;Yoshimitsu Itoh;Masahiro Yamanaka

  • [2,3]-Wittig sigmatropic rearrangements in organic synthesis

    Takeshi Nakai;Koichi Mikami

  • Catalytic asymmetric glyoxylate-ene reaction: a practical access to .alpha.-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purities

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Nakai

  • New frontiers in asymmetric catalysis

    Koichi Mikami;Mark Lautens

  • “Asymmetric” Catalysis by Lanthanide Complexes

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Hiroshi Matsuzawa

  • Conformationally Flexible Biphenyl‐phosphane Ligands for Ru‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation

    Koichi Mikami;Toshinobu Korenaga;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Ohkuma

  • Super High Throughput Screening (SHTS) of Chiral Ligands and Activators: Asymmetric Activation of Chiral Diol-Zinc Catalysts by Chiral Nitrogen Activators for the Enantioselective Addition of Diethylzinc to Aldehydes.

    Kuiling Ding;Akihiro Ishii;Koichi Mikami

  • Symmetry breaking in asymmetric catalysis: racemic catalysis to autocatalysis.

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Yamanaka

  • Asymmetric Catalysis of Diels-Alder Cycloadditions by an MS-Free Binaphthol-Titanium Complex: Dramatic Effect of MS, Linear vs Positive Nonlinear Relationship, and Synthetic Applications

    Koichi Mikami;Yukihiro Motoyama;Masahiro Terada

  • Asymmetric glyoxylate-ene reaction catalyzed by chiral titanium complexes: a practical access to α-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purities

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Nakai

  • Asymmetric Activation of Racemic Ruthenium(II) Complexes for Enantioselective Hydrogenation

    Takeshi Ohkuma;Henri Doucet;Trang Pham;Koichi Mikami

  • Axial Chirality Control of Gold(biphep) Complexes by Chiral Anions: Application to Asymmetric Catalysis

    Kohsuke Aikawa;Masafumi Kojima;Koichi Mikami

  • Asymmetric synthesis by enantiomer-selective activation of racemic catalysts

    Koichi Mikami;Satoru Matsukawa

  • Enantioselective and diastereoselective catalysis of the Mukaiyama aldol reaction: ene mechanism in titanium-catalyzed aldol reactions of silyl enol ethers

    Koichi Mikami;Satoru Matsukawa

  • Tropos or Atropos? That is the Question!

    Koichi Mikami;Kohsuke Aikawa;Yukinori Yusa;Jonathan J. Jodry

  • Highly enantioselective quinoline synthesis via ene-type cyclization of 1,7-enynes catalyzed by a cationic BINAP-palladium(II) complex.

    Manabu Hatano;Koichi Mikami

  • Highly Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Ene-Type Cyclization of a 1,6-Enyne

    Manabu Hatano;Masahiro Terada;Koichi Mikami

  • Asymmetric Catalytic Aldol-type Reaction with Ketene Silyl Acetals: Possible Intervention of the Silatropic Ene Pathway

    Koichi Mikami;Satoru Matsukawa

  • Stable but Reactive Perfluoroalkylzinc Reagents: Application in Ligand‐Free Copper‐Catalyzed Perfluoroalkylation of Aryl Iodides

    Kohsuke Aikawa;Yuzo Nakamura;Yuki Yokota;Wataru Toya

  • Addition of Ketene Silyl Acetals to the Triplet Excited State of C60 via Photoinduced Electron Transfer Leading to the Fullereneacetates

    Koichi Mikami;Shoji Matsumoto;Akito Ishida;Setsuo Takamuku

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Terada
Masahiro Terada Tohoku University
Takeshi Nakai
Takeshi Nakai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Teck-Peng Loh
Teck-Peng Loh Nanyang Technological University
Kuiling Ding
Kuiling Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Takeshi Ohkuma
Takeshi Ohkuma Hokkaido University
Tomoyoshi Suenobu
Tomoyoshi Suenobu Osaka University
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University
Tadafumi Uchimaru
Tadafumi Uchimaru National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University

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