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Koichi Tanaka

Koichi Tanaka

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Chemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
17958
World Ranking
9550
National Ranking
681

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Nobel Prize for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules

Overview

Koichi Tanaka is affiliated with Shimadzu Corp in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and chemistry, with a particular focus on spectroscopy. Their research spans 19 publications in medicine and 15 in chemistry, emphasizing subfields such as spectroscopy, physiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and surgery.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes

Tanaka's recent papers cover a range of specialized subjects in chemistry and analytical techniques:

  • Acyltransferase that catalyses the condensation of polyketide and peptide moieties of goadvionin hybrid lipopeptides, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Highly Efficient Light Helicity Detection of Enantiomers by Chiral Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films, 2023, Nano Letters
  • Gas-Phase Peptide Fragmentation Induced by Hydrogen Attachment, from Principle to Sequencing of Amide Nitrogen-Methylated Peptides, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Hot Hydrogen Atom Irradiation of Protonated/Deprotonated Peptide in an Ion Trap Facilitates Fragmentation through Heated Radical Formation, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Discrimination of Aspartic and Isoaspartic Acid Residues in Peptides by Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Hydrogen Attachment Dissociation, 2024, Analytical Chemistry

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Journal of Liver Transplantation
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • Nano Letters

Koichi Tanaka has collaborated regularly with a group of researchers, notably including Shinichi Iwamoto, Naoki Kaneko, Sadanori Sekiya, Hidenori Takahashi, and Daiki Asakawa.

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes receiving the Nobel Prize in 2002 for the development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.

Best Publications

  • Protein and polymer analyses up to m/z 100 000 by laser ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Koichi Tanaka;Hiroaki Waki;Yutaka Ido;Satoshi Akita

  • Solvent-free organic synthesis

    K Tanaka;F Toda

  • Oxidative coupling reactions of phenols with iron(III) chloride in the solid state

    Fumio Toda;Koichi Tanaka;Shinji Iwata

  • Catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reaction using optically active rare earth BINOL complexes : investigation of the catalyst structure

    Hiroaki Sasai;Takeyuki Suzuki;Noriie Itoh;Koichi Tanaka

  • A novel chiral porous metal-organic framework: asymmetric ring opening reaction of epoxide with amine in the chiral open space.

    Koichi Tanaka;Shinji Oda;Motoo Shiro

  • Derivatization for Stabilizing Sialic Acids in MALDI-MS

    Sadanori Sekiya;Yoshinao Wada;Koichi Tanaka

  • The origin of macromolecule ionization by laser irradiation (Nobel lecture).

    Koichi Tanaka

  • Host–guest complex formation by a solid–solid reaction

    Fumio Toda;Koichi Tanaka;Ayako Sekikawa

  • Solvent-free Organic Synthesis: TANAKA/SOLV.FREE ORG.SYNT O-BK

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  • Jahn–Teller instability in spinel Li–Mn–O

    Atsuo Yamada;Masahiro Tanaka;Koichi Tanaka;Koji Sekai

  • Rapid sequencing and disulfide mapping of peptides containing disulfide bonds by using 1,5-diaminonaphthalene as a reductive matrix

    Yuko Fukuyama;Shinichi Iwamoto;Koichi Tanaka

  • Design of a new chiral host compound, trans-4,5-bis(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxacyclopentane.An effective optical resolution of bicyclic enones through host-guest complex formation

    Fumio Toda;Koichi Tanaka

  • Ionic Liquid Matrixes Optimized for MALDI-MS of Sulfated/Sialylated/Neutral Oligosaccharides and Glycopeptides

    Yuko Fukuyama;Shuuichi Nakaya;Yuzo Yamazaki;Koichi Tanaka

  • Highly efficient chromatographic resolution of sulfoxides using a new homochiral MOF–silica composite

    Koichi Tanaka;Toshihide Muraoka;Daisuke Hirayama;Atsushi Ohnish

  • Aldol condensations in the absence of solvent: acceleration of the reaction and enhancement of the stereoselectivity

    Fumio Toda;Koichi Tanaka;Koki Hamai

  • β‐Carboline alkaloids as matrices for UV‐matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry in positive and negative ion modes. Analysis of proteins of high molecular mass, and of cyclic and acyclic oligosaccharides

    Hiroshi Nonami;Koichi Tanaka;Yuko Fukuyama;Rosa Erra-Balsells

  • Solvent-Free Coumarin Synthesis

    Teizo Sugino;Koichi Tanaka

  • Reformatsky and Luche reaction in the absence of solvent

    Koichi Tanaka;Satoshi Kishigami;Fumio Toda

  • Efficient optical resolution of 2,2'-dihydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl and related compounds by complex formation with novel chiral host compounds derived from tartaric acid

    Fumio Toda;Koichi Tanaka

  • Novel plasma biomarker surrogating cerebral amyloid deposition.

    Naoki Kaneko;Akinori Nakamura;Yukihiko Washimi;Takashi Kato

  • The presence of Foxp3 expressing T cells within grafts of tolerant human liver transplant recipients.

    Ying Li;Xiangdong Zhao;Donghua Cheng;Hironori Haga

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroto Egawa
Hiroto Egawa Kyoto University
Shinji Uemoto
Shinji Uemoto Kyoto University
Thomas C. W. Mak
Thomas C. W. Mak Chinese University of Hong Kong
Israel Goldberg
Israel Goldberg Tel Aviv University
Ken Hirotsu
Ken Hirotsu Osaka Metropolitan University
Masako Kato
Masako Kato Hokkaido University
Katsuhiko Yanagisawa
Katsuhiko Yanagisawa Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Kengo Ito
Kengo Ito Nagoya University
Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato Nagoya University

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