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Masahito Ochiai

Masahito Ochiai

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58
Citations
11054
World Ranking
10706
National Ranking
779

Overview

Masahito Ochiai is affiliated with the University of Tokushima in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, synthesis and catalytic reactions, vanadium and halogenation chemistry, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, and carbon nanotubes in composites.

Ochiai has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Room-temperature chemical synthesis of C2, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Benchtop-Stable Hypervalent Bromine(III) Compounds: Versatile Strategy and Platform for Air- and Moisture-Stable λ3-Bromanes, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Reply to "A Thermodynamic assessment of the reported room-temperature chemical synthesis of C2", 2021, Nature Communications
  • A versatile iodo(iii)etherification of terminal ethynylsilanes using BF3-OiPr2and alkyl benzyl ethers, 2021, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Reaction of Hypervalent Organo-λ3-bromanes and Chloranes, 2023, Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan

Frequent coauthors in Ochiai's research include:

  • Kazunori Miyamoto
  • Masanobu Uchiyama
  • Motomichi Saito
  • Shunsuke Tsuji
  • Taisei Takagi

Their work has been published in various scientific venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan

Best Publications

  • Iodobenzene-catalyzed alpha-acetoxylation of ketones. in situ generation of hypervalent (diacyloxyiodo)benzenes using m-chloroperbenzoic acid.

    Masahito Ochiai;Yasunori Takeuchi;Tomoko Katayama;Takuya Sueda

  • Solvolysis of Cyclohexenyliodonium Salt, a New Precursor for the Vinyl Cation: Remarkable Nucleofugality of the Phenyliodonio Group and Evidence for Internal Return from an Intimate Ion-Molecule Pair

    Tadashi Okuyama;Tomoki Takino;Takuya Sueda;Masahito Ochiai

  • New C-4-chiral 1,3-thiazolidine-2-thiones: excellent chiral auxiliaries for highly diastereo-controlled aldol-type reactions of acetic acid and .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated aldehydes

    Yoshimitsu Nagao;Yuichi Hagiwara;Toshio Kumagai;Masahito Ochiai

  • X-Ray crystal structure of rocaglamide, a novel antileulemic 1H-cyclopenta[b]benzofuran from Aglaia elliptifolia

    Ming Lu King;Chin-Chin Chiang;Han-Chin Ling;Eiichi Fujita

  • Reactions of vinylsilanes with lewis acid-activated iodosylbenzene: stereospecific syntheses of vinyliodonium tetrafluoroborates and their reactions as highly activated vinyl halides

    Masahito Ochiai;Kenzo Sumi;Yoshikazu Takaoka;Munetaka Kunishima

  • Stoichiometric and catalytic oxidations with hypervalent organo-lambda3-iodanes.

    Masahito Ochiai

  • Highly Regioselective Amination of Unactivated Alkanes by Hypervalent Sulfonylimino-λ3-Bromane

    Masahito Ochiai;Kazunori Miyamoto;Takao Kaneaki;Satoko Hayashi

  • Synthesis of Chiral Diaryliodonium Salts, 1,1‘-Binaphthyl-2-yl(phenyl)iodonium Tetrafluoroborates: Asymmetric α-Phenylation of β-Keto Ester Enolates

    Masahito Ochiai;Yutaka Kitagawa;Naoko Takayama;and Yoshikazu Takaoka

  • Tandem Michael-carbene insertion reactions of alkynyliodonium salts. Extremely efficient cyclopentene annulations

    Masahito. Ochiai;Munetaka. Kunishima;Yoshimitsu. Nagao;Kaoru. Fuji

  • Activated iodosylbenzene monomer as an ozone equivalent: oxidative cleavage of carbon-carbon double bonds in the presence of water.

    Kazunori Miyamoto;Norihiro Tada;Masahito Ochiai

  • Iodomesitylene-Catalyzed Oxidative Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Double and Triple Bonds Using m-Chloroperbenzoic Acid as a Terminal Oxidant

    Kazunori Miyamoto;Yoshihisa Sei;Kentaro Yamaguchi;Masahito Ochiai

  • Hypervalent (tert-Butylperoxy)iodanes Generate Iodine-Centered Radicals at Room Temperature in Solution: Oxidation and Deprotection of Benzyl and Allyl Ethers, and Evidence for Generation of α-Oxy Carbon Radicals

    Masahito Ochiai;Takao Ito;Hideo Takahashi;Akinobu Nakanishi

  • Generation of [.beta.-(phenylsulfonyl)alkylidene]carbenes from hypervalent alkenyl- and alkynyliodonium tetrafluoroborates and synthesis of 1-(phenylsulfonyl)cyclopentenes

    Masahito Ochiai;Munetaka Kunishima;Shohei Tani;Yoshimitsu Nagao

  • trans Influences on Hypervalent Bonding of Aryl λ3-Iodanes: Their Stabilities and Isodesmic Reactions of Benziodoxolones and Benziodazolones

    Masahito Ochiai;Takuya Sueda;Kazunori Miyamoto;Paul Kiprof

  • Hypervalent iodine oxidation of amines using iodosobenzene: synthesis of nitriles, ketones and lactams

    Robert M Moriarty;Radhe K Vaid;Michael P Duncan;Masahito Ochiai

  • Reactivities, Properties and Structures

    Masahito Ochiai

  • New general asymmetric synthesis of versatile .gamma.-alkylated butenolides and its application to expeditious synthesis of the chiral Geissman-Waiss lactones useful for (+)-retronecine synthesis

    Yoshimitsu Nagao;Wei Min Dai;Masahito Ochiai;Motoo Shiro

  • Inversion of configuration in nucleophilic vinylic substitutions of (E)-β-alkylvinyliodonium tetrafluoroborates with halides

    Masahito Ochiai;Kunio Oshima;Yukio Masaki

  • Nucleophilic vinylic substitutions of λ3-vinyliodanes

    Masahito Ochiai

  • Hypervalent alkenyliodonium tetrafluoroborates. Evidence for generation of alkylidenecarbenes via base-induced .alpha.-elimination

    Masahito. Ochiai;Yoshikazu. Takaoka;Yoshimitsu. Nagao

Frequent Co-Authors

Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Masanobu Uchiyama
Masanobu Uchiyama University of Tokyo
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Mutsumi Kimura
Mutsumi Kimura Shinshu University
Sei-ichi Nishimoto
Sei-ichi Nishimoto Kyoto University
Robert M. Moriarty
Robert M. Moriarty University of Illinois at Chicago
Shigeru Sakamoto
Shigeru Sakamoto Chiba University
Kazuhiko Takai
Kazuhiko Takai Okayama University
Andrew T. McPhail
Andrew T. McPhail Duke University
Han Zuilhof
Han Zuilhof Wageningen University & Research

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