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Masahiro Murakami

Masahiro Murakami

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
31312
World Ranking
1239
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masahiro Murakami is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of chemistry, with a primary focus on organic chemistry and materials science. Their research output covers a range of subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceutical science, and inorganic chemistry.

Their research primarily emphasizes topics such as catalytic C-H functionalization methods, radical photochemical reactions, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, sulfur-based synthesis techniques, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, and cyclopropane reaction mechanisms.

Masahiro Murakami has published numerous papers, with some notable recent publications including:

  • Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon σ-Bonds of Four-Membered Rings, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Cover Picture: Achievements of the Late Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama (Chem. Rec. 1/2021), 2021, The Chemical Record

Their frequent coauthors include Tomoya Miura, Naoki Ishida, Yusuke Masuda, Takayuki Nakamuro, and Tairin Kawasaki, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 24 joint works.

Masahiro Murakami's research has been published in several academic venues, with frequent publications in The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry Letters, Organic Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie.

Best Publications

  • Metal-catalysed cleavage of carbon–carbon bonds

    Masahiro Murakami;Takanori Matsuda

  • Cleavage of Carbon—Carbon Single Bonds by Transition Metals

    Masahiro Murakami;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Potential of Metal-Catalyzed C–C Single Bond Cleavage for Organic Synthesis

    Masahiro Murakami;Naoki Ishida

  • Selective activation of carbon–carbon bonds next to a carbonyl group

    Masahiro Murakami;Hideki Amii;Yoshihiko Ito

  • The Mukaiyama aldol reaction: 40 years of continuous development.

    Jun-ichi Matsuo;Masahiro Murakami

  • Formation of carbocycles through sequential carborhodation triggered by addition of organoborons.

    Tomoya Miura;Masahiro Murakami

  • Asymmetric synthesis of 3,4-dihydrocoumarins by rhodium-catalyzed reaction of 3-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)cyclobutanones

    Takanori Matsuda;Masanori Shigeno;Masahiro Murakami

  • Nickel-catalysed denitrogenative alkyne insertion reactions of N-sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazoles.

    Tomoya Miura;Motoshi Yamauchi;Masahiro Murakami

  • Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon σ-Bonds of Four-Membered Rings.

    Masahiro Murakami;Naoki Ishida

  • Synthesis of α-Amino Ketones from Terminal Alkynes via Rhodium-Catalyzed Denitrogenative Hydration of N-Sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazoles

    Tomoya Miura;Tsuneaki Biyajima;Tetsuji Fujii;Masahiro Murakami

  • Activation of Unreactive Bonds and Organic Synthesis

    Shinji Murai;H. Alper;R. A. Gossage;V. V. Grushin

  • Intramolecular Dearomatizing [3 + 2] Annulation of α-Imino Carbenoids with Aryl Rings Furnishing 3,4-Fused Indole Skeletons

    Tomoya Miura;Yuuta Funakoshi;Masahiro Murakami

  • Catalyzed Intramolecular Olefin Insertion into a Carbon−Carbon Single Bond

    Masahiro Murakami;Tamon Itahashi;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Light-Driven Carboxylation of o-Alkylphenyl Ketones with CO2

    Yusuke Masuda;Naoki Ishida;Masahiro Murakami

  • Synthesis of Pyridine−Borane Complexes via Electrophilic Aromatic Borylation

    Naoki Ishida;Taisaku Moriya;Tsuyoshi Goya;Masahiro Murakami

  • Microginin, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor from the blue-green alga Microcystis aeruginosa

    Tatsufumi Okino;Hisashi Matsuda;Masahiro Murakami;Katsumi Yamaguchi

  • Pyridine‐Directed Palladium‐Catalyzed Phosphonation of C(sp2) ? H Bonds

    Changkun Li;Takaaki Yano;Naoki Ishida;Masahiro Murakami

  • Breaking of the C−C Bond of Cyclobutanones by Rhodium(I) and Its Extension to Catalytic Synthetic Reactions

    Masahiro Murakami;Hideki Amii;Kunji Shigeto;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Nickel-catalyzed intermolecular alkyne insertion into cyclobutanones.

    Masahiro Murakami;Shinji Ashida;Takanori Matsuda

  • Synthesis of enaminones by rhodium-catalyzed denitrogenative rearrangement of 1-(N-sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)alkanols.

    Tomoya Miura;Yuuta Funakoshi;Masao Morimoto;Tsuneaki Biyajima

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomoya Miura
Tomoya Miura Kyoto University
Yoshihiko Ito
Yoshihiko Ito Kyoto University
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Teruaki Mukaiyama Kitasato University
Michinori Suginome
Michinori Suginome Kyoto University
Kenichiro Itami
Kenichiro Itami Nagoya University
Keishi Ishida
Keishi Ishida Leibniz Association
Hajime Ito
Hajime Ito Hokkaido University
Yasushi Ohizumi
Yasushi Ohizumi Tohoku University
Hisashi Matsuda
Hisashi Matsuda Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu Osaka University

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