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Masahiko Yamaguchi

Masahiko Yamaguchi

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Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
10921
World Ranking
10718
National Ranking
782

Overview

Masahiko Yamaguchi is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and specializes in the field of chemistry, with a particular focus on organic chemistry. Their research portfolio includes 30 publications in chemistry, emphasizing detailed studies in organic chemistry with 28 focused works. Additional subfields include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmaceutical science, and electronic, optical and magnetic materials.

The scientist's research themes cover a variety of areas including sulfur-based synthesis techniques, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions. Other notable topics involved in their work are the synthesis and catalytic reactions, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, chemical synthesis and reactions, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Among Yamaguchi's recent published papers are:

  • Thermal Hysteresis Involving Reversible Self-Catalytic Reactions, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Organosulfur Compounds Involving S-S Bond Cleavage of Disulfides and Sulfur, 2020, Molecules
  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Unprotected Peptide Thiols to Disulfides with Oxygen in Water, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Heteroarylselenyl Esters from Diheteroaryl Diselenides and Acid Fluorides, 2020, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Meibomian Gland Dysfunction Clinical Practice Guidelines, 2023, Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Yamaguchi frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Notable coauthors include Mieko Arisawa, Ming Bao, Sheng Zhang, Xiaoqiang Yu, and Xiujuan Feng, with the highest frequency of collaborations involving Arisawa and Bao.

The scientist's work is regularly published in journals such as Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, ChemistrySelect, and The Journal of Organic Chemistry, among others. These venues represent the central platforms for dissemination of their research findings in synthetic and catalytic chemistry.

Best Publications

  • An efficient method for the alkynylation of oxiranes using alkynyl boranes

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  • ASYMMETRIC MICHAEL ADDITION OF MALONATE ANIONS TO PROCHIRAL ACCEPTORS CATALYZED BY L-PROLINE RUBIDIUM SALT

    Masahiko Yamaguchi;Tai Shiraishi;Masahiro Hirama

  • Rhodium-catalyzed substitution reaction of aryl fluorides with disulfides: p-orientation in the polyarylthiolation of polyfluorobenzenes.

    Mieko Arisawa;Takaaki Suzuki;Tomofumi Ishikawa;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • A Catalytic Enantioselective Michael Addition of a Simple Malonate to Prochiral α,β‐Unsaturated Ketoses and Aldehydes

    Masahiko Yamaguchi;Tai Shiraishi;Masahiro Hirama

  • Rhodium-catalyzed disulfide exchange reaction.

    Mieko Arisawa;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Marked effect of aromatic solvent on unfolding rate of helical ethynylhelicene oligomer.

    Hiroki Sugiura;Yasuko Nigorikawa;Yuto Saiki;Keiichi Nakamura

  • GaCl3-catalyzed ortho-ethynylation of phenols

    Katsumi Kobayashi;Mieko Arisawa;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Rate Enhancement of the Pauson–Khand Reaction by Primary Amines

    Takumichi Sugihara;Mamiko Yamada;Hitoshi Ban;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Asymmetric Michael addition of nitroalkanes to prochiral acceptors catalyzed by proline rubidium salts

    Masahiko Yamaguchi;Yoshihiro Igarashi;Ravinder S Reddy;Tai Shiraishi

  • Chiral recognition in noncovalent bonding interactions between helicenes: right-handed helix favors right-handed helix over left-handed helix

    Ryo Amemiya;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Advances in the Pauson-Khand reaction: development of reactive cobalt complexes.

    Takumichi Sugihara;Masahiko Yamaguchi;Mugio Nishizawa

  • Equilibrating C−S Bond Formation by C−H and S−S Bond Metathesis. Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkylthiolation Reaction of 1-Alkynes with Disulfides

    Mieko Arisawa;Kenji Fujimoto;Satoshi Morinaka;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC MICHAEL ADDITION OF NITROALKANE TO ENONE AND ENAL

    Masahiko Yamaguchi;Tai Shiraishi;Yoshihiro Igarashi;Masahiro Hirama

  • The Intra- and Intermolecular Pauson-Khand Reaction Promoted by Alkyl Methyl Sulfides

    Takumichi Sugihara;Mamiko Yamada;Masahiko Yamaguchi;Mugio Nishizawa

  • Chiral recognition in the binding of helicenediamine to double strand DNA: interactions between low molecular weight helical compounds and a helical polymer.

    Shinobu Honzawa;Hitoshi Okubo;Shuzo Anzai;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Synthesis and self-aggregation of cyclic alkynes containing helicene.

    Keiichi Nakamura;Hitoshi Okubo;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Addition reaction of dialkyl disulfides to terminal alkynes catalyzed by a rhodium complex and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid.

    Mieko Arisawa;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • The Pauson−Khand Reaction Catalyzed by the Methylidynetricobalt Nonacarbonyl Cluster

    Takumichi Sugihara;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Rhodium-catalyzed Beckmann rearrangement.

    Mieko Arisawa;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Synthesis and structure of built-up organic macromolecules containing helicene.

    Ryo Amemiya;Masahiko Yamaguchi

  • Ethenylation of Silyl Enol Ether with Silylethyne

    Masahiko Yamaguchi;Toru Tsukagoshi;Mieko Arisawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Hirama
Masahiro Hirama Tohoku University
Mugio Nishizawa
Mugio Nishizawa Tokushima Bunri University
Chizuko Kabuto
Chizuko Kabuto Tohoku University
Koji Kano
Koji Kano Doshisha University
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara Tokyo University of Science
Katsumi Tanigaki
Katsumi Tanigaki Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Toru Yamada
Toru Yamada Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Masatsugu Shimomura
Masatsugu Shimomura Tohoku University
Tomoyuki Akutagawa
Tomoyuki Akutagawa Tohoku University
Izumi Kumagai
Izumi Kumagai Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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