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Masakatsu Shibasaki

Masakatsu Shibasaki

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
134
Citations
60225
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2012 - Ryoji Noyori Prize, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • 2008 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Masakatsu Shibasaki is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of chemistry and materials science, with significant contributions to subfields such as organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and pharmacology.

Their scholarly output includes focused work on topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and catalytic reactions, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, and synthetic organic chemistry methods.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shibasaki include Naoya Kumagai, Hidetoshi Noda, Takumi Watanabe, Santosh K. Pagire, and Jin Cui. These collaborations have appeared across a range of research articles contributing to various facets of chemistry and catalysis.

Shibasaki's recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research interests and experimental focus. Notable publications are:

  • "The Different Faces of Ru(bpy)3Cl2 and fac[Ir(ppy)3] Photocatalysts: Redox Potential Controlled Synthesis of Sulfonylated Fluorenes and Pyrroloindoles from Unactivated Olefins and Sulfonyl Chlorides," 2020, Organic Letters
  • "Mitochondrial complex I inhibitors suppress tumor growth through concomitant acidification of the intra- and extracellular environment," 2021, iScience
  • "Catalyst-Controlled Chemoselective Nitrene Transfers," 2021, Helvetica Chimica Acta
  • "O-Benzoylhydroxylamines as Alkyl Nitrene Precursors: Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles from Primary Amines," 2020, Organic Letters
  • "Targeting the ATG5-ATG16L1 Protein-Protein Interaction with a Hydrocarbon-Stapled Peptide Derived from ATG16L1 for Autophagy Inhibition," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The venues where Shibasaki has published most frequently include The Cambridge Structural Database, Organic Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemical Science. These journals reflect a strong interdisciplinary focus on structural chemistry, organic synthesis, and catalysis.

Awards received by Shibasaki comprise the Ryoji Noyori Prize from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2012 and the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Lanthanide complexes in multifunctional asymmetric catalysis.

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Naoki Yoshikawa

  • Asymmetric Catalysis with Heterobimetallic Compounds

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Hiroaki Sasai;Takayoshi Arai

  • Basic character of rare earth metal alkoxides. Utilization in catalytic C-C bond-forming reactions and catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reactions

    Hiroaki Sasai;Takeyuki Suzuki;Shigeru Arai;Takayoshi Arai

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols and α-Tertiary Amines via Cu-Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation to Ketones and Ketimines

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Motomu Kanai

  • Recent progress in asymmetric bifunctional catalysis using multimetallic systems.

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Motomu Kanai;Shigeki Matsunaga;Naoya Kumagai

  • Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Reaction

    Naoki Yoshikawa;Yoichi M. A. Yamada;Jagattaran Das;Hiroaki Sasai

  • Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Reactions of Aldehydes with Unmodified Ketones

    Yoichi M. A. Yamada;Naoki Yoshikawa;Hiroaki Sasai;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Power of cooperativity : Lewis acid-lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysis

    Motomu Kanai;Nobuki Kato;Eiko Ichikawa;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Asymmetric Heck Reaction

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Erasmus M. Vogl;Takashi Ohshima

  • The First Heterobimetallic Multifunctional Asymmetric Catalyst

    Hiroaki Sasai;Takayoshi Arai;Yoshinori Satow;K. N. Houk

  • Stimulating Concepts in Chemistry

    Fritz Vögtle;J. Fraser Stoddart;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • De novo synthesis of Tamiflu via a catalytic asymmetric ring-opening of meso-aziridines with TMSN3.

    Yuhei Fukuta;Tsuyoshi Mita;Nobuhisa Fukuda;Motomu Kanai

  • A New Bifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis: An Efficient Catalytic Asymmetric Cyanosilylation of Aldehydes

    Yoshitaka Hamashima;Daisuke Sawada;and Motomu Kanai;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Design and application of linked-BINOL chiral ligands in bifunctional asymmetric catalysis

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Shigeki Matsunaga

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones Promoted by Lanthanoid Complexes

    Masahiro Bougauchi;Shizue Watanabe;Takayoshi Arai;Hiroaki Sasai

  • A Catalytic Michael Addition of Thiols to α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds: Asymmetric Michael Additions and Asymmetric Protonations

    Eita Emori;Takayoshi Arai;Hiroaki Sasai;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • New Catalytic Concepts for the Asymmetric Aldol Reaction

    Harald Gröger;Erasmus M. Vogl;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Enantioselective synthesis of SM-130686 based on the development of asymmetric Cu(I)F catalysis to access 2-oxindoles containing a tetrasubstituted carbon.

    Daisuke Tomita;Kenzo Yamatsugu;Motomu Kanai;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • The asymmetric Heck reaction

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Christopher D.J. Boden;Akihiko Kojima

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Cyanosilylation of Ketones

    Yoshitaka Hamashima;and Motomu Kanai;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Allylation of Ketoimines

    Reiko Wada;Tomoyuki Shibuguchi;Sae Makino;Kounosuke Oisaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoya Kumagai
Naoya Kumagai University of Tokyo
Motomu Kanai
Motomu Kanai University of Tokyo
Shigeki Matsunaga
Shigeki Matsunaga Kyoto University
Takashi Ohshima
Takashi Ohshima Kyushu University
Hiroaki Sasai
Hiroaki Sasai Osaka University
Takayoshi Arai
Takayoshi Arai Chiba University
Mikiko Sodeoka
Mikiko Sodeoka Sagami Central Chemical Research Institute
Yoshitaka Hamashima
Yoshitaka Hamashima University of Shizuoka
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Yoshihiro Sato
Yoshihiro Sato Hokkaido University

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