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Masahiro Terada

Masahiro Terada

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
21297
World Ranking
5197
National Ranking
303

Overview

Masahiro Terada is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan specializing in chemistry, with a particular focus on organic chemistry. Their research portfolio includes significant contributions across several subfields including materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and spectroscopy.

Their work is prominently featured in main fields of study such as:

  • Chemistry

With a strong emphasis on organic chemistry, Terada's subfield expertise encompasses:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Spectroscopy

The primary topics addressed in their research reflect advanced chemical synthesis and catalysis techniques, including:

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Terada has contributed an extensive number of papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Furans through One-Pot Formal [3 + 2] Cycloaddition Utilizing [1,2]-Phospha-Brook Rearrangement", 2020, Organic Letters
  • "Enantioselective Protonation: Hydrophosphinylation of 1,1-Vinyl Azaheterocycle N-Oxides Catalyzed by Chiral Bis(guanidino)iminophosphorane Organosuperbase", 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Enantioconvergent Substitution Reactions of Racemic Electrophiles by Organocatalysis", 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Development of Chiral Organosuperbase Catalysts Consisting of Two Different Organobase Functionalities", 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Development of Chiral Ureates as Chiral Strong Brønsted Base Catalysts", 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Terada include:

  • Azusa Kondoh
  • Itaru Nakamura
  • Jun Kikuchi
  • Shigenobu Umemiya
  • Tienan Jin

The primary publication venues favored by Terada are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Science
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed direct Mannich reactions via electrophilic activation.

    Daisuke Uraguchi;Masahiro Terada

  • Chiral Phosphoric Acids asVersatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Transformations

    Masahiro Terada

  • Binaphthol-derived phosphoric acid as a versatile catalyst for enantioselective carbon–carbon bond forming reactions

    Masahiro Terada

  • Organocatalytic Asymmetric Aza-Friedel−Crafts Alkylation of Furan

    Daisuke Uraguchi;Keiichi Sorimachi;Masahiro Terada

  • Enantioselective friedel-crafts reaction of electron-rich alkenes catalyzed by chiral brønsted acid

    Masahiro Terada;Keiichi Sorimachi

  • Catalytic asymmetric glyoxylate-ene reaction: a practical access to .alpha.-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purities

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Nakai

  • High Substrate/Catalyst Organocatalysis by a Chiral Brønsted Acid for an Enantioselective Aza‐Ene‐Type Reaction

    Masahiro Terada;Kyoko Machioka;Keiichi Sorimachi

  • Axially chiral guanidine as enantioselective base catalyst for 1,4-addition reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with conjugated nitroalkenes.

    Masahiro Terada;Hitoshi Ube;Yusuke Yaguchi

  • “Asymmetric” Catalysis by Lanthanide Complexes

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Hiroshi Matsuzawa

  • Axially chiral guanidine as highly active and enantioselective catalyst for electrophilic amination of unsymmetrically substituted 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds.

    Masahiro Terada;Megumi Nakano;Hitoshi Ube

  • Conformationally Flexible Biphenyl‐phosphane Ligands for Ru‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation

    Koichi Mikami;Toshinobu Korenaga;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Ohkuma

  • Chiral Phosphoric Acids as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions

    Masahiro Terada

  • Asymmetric Catalysis of Diels-Alder Cycloadditions by an MS-Free Binaphthol-Titanium Complex: Dramatic Effect of MS, Linear vs Positive Nonlinear Relationship, and Synthetic Applications

    Koichi Mikami;Yukihiro Motoyama;Masahiro Terada

  • Asymmetric glyoxylate-ene reaction catalyzed by chiral titanium complexes: a practical access to α-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purities

    Koichi Mikami;Masahiro Terada;Takeshi Nakai

  • Palladium-catalyzed Reaction of Stannyl Sulfide with Aryl Bromide. Preparation of Aryl Sulfide

    Masanori Kosugi;Toshimi Ogata;Masahiro Terada;Hiroshi Sano

  • Organocatalytic Asymmetric Direct Alkylation of α-Diazoester via C−H Bond Cleavage

    Daisuke Uraguchi;Keiichi Sorimachi;Masahiro Terada

  • Enantioselective Direct Aldol-Type Reaction of Azlactone via Protonation of Vinyl Ethers by a Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalyst

    Masahiro Terada;Hiroyasu Tanaka;Keiichi Sorimachi

  • Asymmetric Activation of Racemic Ruthenium(II) Complexes for Enantioselective Hydrogenation

    Takeshi Ohkuma;Henri Doucet;Trang Pham;Koichi Mikami

  • Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Tandem Aza-Ene Type Reaction/Cyclization Cascade for a One-Pot Entry to Enantioenriched Piperidines

    Masahiro Terada;Kyoko Machioka;Keiichi Sorimachi

  • Relay catalysis by a metal-complex/Brønsted acid binary system in a tandem isomerization/carbon-carbon bond forming sequence.

    Keiichi Sorimachi;Masahiro Terada

Frequent Co-Authors

Koichi Mikami
Koichi Mikami Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeshi Nakai
Takeshi Nakai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoshinori Yamamoto
Yoshinori Yamamoto Tohoku University
Tienan Jin
Tienan Jin Tohoku University
Ilya D. Gridnev
Ilya D. Gridnev Tohoku University
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University
Takeaki Iwamoto
Takeaki Iwamoto Tohoku University
Hideo Takezoe
Hideo Takezoe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeshi Ohkuma
Takeshi Ohkuma Hokkaido University
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University

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