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Makoto Yasuda

Makoto Yasuda

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Overview

Makoto Yasuda is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work spans subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Inorganic Chemistry, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms

Makoto Yasuda has authored papers published in several scientific journals, including:

  • Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids

Recent papers by Yasuda include:

  • "Breathing New Life into Nonalternant Hydrocarbon Chemistry: Syntheses and Properties of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons Containing Azulene, Pentalene, and Heptalene Frameworks" (2020, Chemistry Letters)
  • "Photoredox-Catalyzed C-F Bond Allylation of Perfluoroalkylarenes at the Benzylic Position" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Bis-periazulene (Cycloheptadeffluorene) as a Nonalternant Isomer of Pyrene: Synthesis and Characterization of Its Triaryl Derivatives" (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Insertion of Diazo Esters into C-F Bonds toward Diastereoselective One-Carbon Elongation of Benzylic Fluorides: Unprecedented BF3 Catalysis with C-F Bond Cleavage and Re-formation" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Determination of total purine and purine base content of 80 food products to aid nutritional therapy for gout and hyperuricemia" (2020, Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids)

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Akihito Konishi, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Kouji Chiba, Shoya Satake, and Ryohei Kishi.

Makoto Yasuda's work is often published in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Best Publications

  • Direct carbon-carbon bond formation from alcohols and active methylenes, alkoxyketones, or indoles catalyzed by indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Toshio Somyo;Akio Baba

  • Direct reduction of alcohols: highly chemoselective reducing system for secondary or tertiary alcohols using chlorodiphenylsilane with a catalytic amount of indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Masako Ueba;Takashi Miyai

  • Direct substitution of the hydroxy group in alcohols with silyl nucleophiles catalyzed by indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Takahiro Saito;Masako Ueba;Akio Baba

  • Direct coupling reaction between alcohols and silyl compounds : Enhancement of lewis acidity of Me3SiBr using InCl3

    Takahiro Saito;Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • In Situ Observation of Nonequilibrium Local Heating as an Origin of Special Effect of Microwave on Chemistry

    Yasunori Tsukahara;Ayano Higashi;Tomohisa Yamauchi;Takashi Nakamura

  • Breathing New Life into Nonalternant Hydrocarbon Chemistry: Syntheses and Properties of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons Containing Azulene, Pentalene, and Heptalene Frameworks

    Akihito Konishi;Makoto Yasuda

  • Hydride-generation atomic absorption spectrometry coupled with flow injection analysis

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  • Cross-Coupling Reaction of α-Chloroketones and Organotin Enolates Catalyzed by Zinc Halides for Synthesis of γ-Diketones

    Makoto Yasuda;Shoki Tsuji;Yusuke Shigeyoshi;Akio Baba

  • Open-Shell and Antiaromatic Character Induced by the Highly Symmetric Geometry of the Planar Heptalene Structure: Synthesis and Characterization of a Nonalternant Isomer of Bisanthene

    Akihito Konishi;Koki Horii;Daisuke Shiomi;Kazunobu Sato

  • Indium-Catalyzed Direct Chlorination of Alcohols Using Chlorodimethylsilane−Benzil as a Selective and Mild System

    Makoto Yasuda;Satoshi Yamasaki;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Akio Baba

  • Practical and simple synthesis of substituted quinolines by an HCl-DMSO system on a large scale: remarkable effect of the chloride ion.

    Shin-Ya Tanaka;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Catalytic Generation of Indium Hydride in a Highly Diastereoselective Reductive Aldol Reaction

    Ikuya Shibata;Hirofumi Kato;Tatsuya Ishida;Makoto Yasuda

  • Photoredox-Catalyzed C-F Bond Allylation of Perfluoroalkylarenes at the Benzylic Position.

    Naoki Sugihara;Kensuke Suzuki;Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Makoto Yasuda

  • Regio‐ and Stereoselective Generation of Alkenylindium Compounds from Indium Tribromide, Alkynes, and Ketene Silyl Acetals

    Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Ryosuke Moritoh;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Indium(III) Chloride/Chlorotrimethylsilane as a Highly Active Lewis Acid Catalyst System for the Sakurai−Hosomi Reaction

    Yoshiyuki Onishi;Takeshi Ito;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Direct conversion of carbonyl compounds into organic halides: indium(III) hydroxide-catalyzed deoxygenative halogenation using chlorodimethylsilane.

    Yoshiyuki Onishi;Daigo Ogawa;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Solvent-controlled addition of alkynyltins or allylic tins to aldehydes catalyzed by indium trichloride

    Makoto Yasuda;Takashi Miyai;Ikuya Shibata;Akio Baba

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Dibenzo[a,f]pentalene: Harmonization of the Antiaromatic and Singlet Biradical Character.

    Akihito Konishi;Yui Okada;Motohiro Nakano;Kenji Sugisaki

  • α‐Alkylation of Carbonyl Compounds by Direct Addition of Alcohols to Enol Acetates

    Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Yoshiharu Onishi;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Diastereoselective addition of gamma-substituted allylic nucleophiles to ketones: highly stereoselective synthesis of tertiary homoallylic alcohols using an allylic tributylstannane/stannous chloride system.

    Makoto Yasuda;Kay Hirata;Mitsuyoshi Nishino;and Akihiro Yamamoto

  • Direct coupling of alcohols with alkenylsilanes catalyzed by indium trichloride or bismuth tribromide

    Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Masayuki Kajioka;Takahiro Saito;Makoto Yasuda

  • Esters as acylating reagent in a Friedel-Crafts reaction: indium tribromide catalyzed acylation of arenes using dimethylchlorosilane.

    Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Srinivasarao Arulananda Babu;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

Frequent Co-Authors

Akio Baba
Akio Baba Osaka University
Shinya Tanaka
Shinya Tanaka Hokkaido University
Noboru Sonoda
Noboru Sonoda Kansai University
Yuji Wada
Yuji Wada Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeji Takui
Takeji Takui Osaka Metropolitan University
Kazunobu Sato
Kazunobu Sato Osaka Metropolitan University
Masayoshi Nakano
Masayoshi Nakano Osaka University
Ken-ichiro Hayashi
Ken-ichiro Hayashi Okayama University of Science
Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Alessandra Corsi
Alessandra Corsi Texas Tech University

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