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Overview

Kotohiro Nomura is affiliated with Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan and has contributed to multiple research areas in chemistry and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on synthetic organic chemistry methods and organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, with notable attention to carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

Nomura has published extensively in subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, process chemistry and technology, biomaterials, and polymers and plastics. Their research spans several topics, among which synthetic organic chemistry methods and catalysis are most frequent. Additional topics involve crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and molecular interactions related to crystallography.

Recent publications by Kotohiro Nomura include the following papers:

  • Synthesis of Bio-Based Aliphatic Polyesters from Plant Oils by Efficient Molecular Catalysis: A Selected Survey from Recent Reports (2021), published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Synthesis of Biobased Long-Chain Polyesters by Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization and Tandem Hydrogenation and Depolymerization with Ethylene (2020), published in ACS Omega

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Daisuke Shimoyama (12 coauthored publications)
  • Naoki Nakatani (10 coauthored publications)
  • Yohei Ogiwara (9 coauthored publications)
  • Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif (9 coauthored publications)
  • Suphitchaya Kitphaitun (9 coauthored publications)

Kotohiro Nomura's work appears regularly in specific publication venues, with significant contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (22 publications)
  • Catalysts (10 publications)
  • Organometallics (9 publications)
  • ACS Omega (7 publications)
  • Macromolecules (6 publications)

Best Publications

  • Design of vanadium complex catalysts for precise olefin polymerization.

    Kotohiro Nomura;Shu Zhang

  • Synthesis of Various Nonbridged Titanium(IV) Cyclopentadienyl−Aryloxy Complexes of the Type CpTi(OAr)X2 and Their Use in the Catalysis of Alkene Polymerization. Important Roles of Substituents on both Aryloxy and Cyclopentadienyl Groups

    Kotohiro Nomura;Naofumi Naga;Misao Miki;Kazunori Yanagi

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  • Nonbridged half-metallocenes containing anionic ancillary donor ligands: New promising candidates as catalysts for precise olefin polymerization

    Kotohiro Nomura;Jingyu Liu;Sudhakar Padmanabhan;Boonyarach Kitiyanan

  • Olefin Polymerization by (Cyclopentadienyl)(aryloxy)titanium(IV) Complexes−Cocatalyst Systems

    Kotohiro Nomura;Kotohiro Nomura;Naofumi Naga;Naofumi Naga;Misao Miki;Kazunori Yanagi

  • Half-titanocenes containing anionic ancillary donor ligands as promising new catalysts for precise olefin polymerisation

    Kotohiro Nomura

  • Precise synthesis of polymers containing functional end groups by living ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP): Efficient tools for synthesis of block/graft copolymers

    Kotohiro Nomura;Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif

  • Remarkable Effects of Aluminum Cocatalyst and Comonomer in Ethylene Copolymerizations Catalyzed by (Arylimido)(aryloxo)vanadium Complexes: Efficient Synthesis of High Molecular Weight Ethylene/Norbornene Copolymer

    Wei Wang;Kotohiro Nomura

  • Syndiospecific styrene polymerization and efficient ethylene/styrene copolymerization catalyzed by (cyclopentadienyl)(aryloxy)titanium(IV) complexes-MAO system

    Kotohiro Nomura;Takashi Komatsu;Yukio Imanishi

  • Half-titanocenes for precise olefin polymerisation: effects of ligand substituents and some mechanistic aspects

    Kotohiro Nomura;Jingyu Liu

  • Olefin Polymerization and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Norbornene by (Arylimido)(aryloxo)vanadium(V) Complexes of the Type VX2(NAr)(OAr`). Remarkable Effect of Aluminum Cocatalyst for the Coordination and Insertion and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

    Kotohiro Nomura;and Asami Sagara;Yukio Imanishi

  • Ethylene/Styrene Copolymerization by Various (Cyclopentadienyl)(aryloxy)titanium(IV) Complexes-MAO Catalyst Systems

    Kotohiro Nomura;Hiroshi Okumura;Takashi Komatsu;Naofumi Naga

  • Transition metal catalyzed hydrogenation or reduction in water

    Kotohiro Nomura

  • Living copolymerization of ethylene with styrene catalyzed by (cyclopentadienyl)(ketimide)titanium(IV) complex--MAO catalyst system.

    Hao Zhang;Kotohiro Nomura

  • Synthesis of Poly(macromonomer)s by Repeating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) with Mo(CHCMe2Ph)(NAr)(OR)2 Initiators

    Kotohiro Nomura;Shinya Takahashi;Yukio Imanishi

  • Efficient Ethylene/Norbornene Copolymerization by (Aryloxo)(indenyl)titanium (IV) Complexes-MAO Catalyst System

    Kotohiro Nomura;Miki Tsubota;Michiya Fujiki

  • Preparation of sugar-coated homopolymers and multiblock ROMP copolymers

    Kotohiro Nomura;Richard R. Schrock

  • Olefin polymerization by (cyclopentadienyl)(ketimide)titanium(IV) complexes of the type, Cp′TiCl2(NCtBu2)-methylaluminoxane (MAO) catalyst systems

    Kotohiro Nomura;Kazuya Fujita;Michiya Fujiki

  • Effect of the Cyclopentadienyl Fragment on Monomer Reactivities and Monomer Sequence Distributions in Ethylene/α-Olefin Copolymerization by a Nonbridged (Cyclopentadienyl)(aryloxy)titanium(IV) Complex−MAO Catalyst System

    Kotohiro Nomura;Keima Oya;Takashi Komatsu;Yukio Imanishi

  • Ethylene/α-olefin copolymerization by various nonbridged (cyclopentadienyl)(aryloxy)titanium(IV) complexes — MAO catalyst system

    Kotohiro Nomura;Keima Oya;Yukio Imanishi

  • Olefin metathesis polymerization: Some recent developments in the precise polymerizations for synthesis of advanced materials (by ROMP, ADMET)

    Yanjun Chen;Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif;Kotohiro Nomura

  • Ring-opening polymerization of various cyclic esters by Al complex catalysts containing a series of phenoxy-imine ligands: Effect of the imino substituents for the catalytic activity

    Naruhito Iwasa;Michiya Fujiki;Kotohiro Nomura

Frequent Co-Authors

Michiya Fujiki
Michiya Fujiki Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Wen-Hua Sun
Wen-Hua Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matthias Tamm
Matthias Tamm Technische Universität Braunschweig
Dong-Hyun Kim
Dong-Hyun Kim Kyung Hee University
Seiji Yamazoe
Seiji Yamazoe Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yves Geerts
Yves Geerts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Yukio Imanishi
Yukio Imanishi Kyoto University
Yue-Sheng Li
Yue-Sheng Li Tianjin University
Moris S. Eisen
Moris S. Eisen Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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