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Masanobu Uchiyama

Masanobu Uchiyama

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17408
World Ranking
5292
National Ranking
313

Overview

Masanobu Uchiyama is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science throughout their career. Their research output reflects a focus on materials chemistry and organic chemistry, with significant work spanning molecular biology, pharmacology, and spectroscopy.

Their main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, luminescence and fluorescent materials, radical photochemical reactions, and organoboron and organosilicon chemistry.

Frequent publication venues for their work comprise:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic Letters

Notable recent papers authored by Uchiyama and collaborators include:

  • General Design Strategy to Precisely Control the Emission of Fluorophores via a Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT) Process, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Practical and Facile Access to Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptanes: Potent Bioisosteres of meta-Substituted Benzenes, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Sila- and Germacarboxylic Acids: Precursors for the Corresponding Silyl and Germyl Radicals, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Planar Chiral Zigzag-Type Cyclophenylene Belts by Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkyne Cyclotrimerization, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Single-molecule laser nanospectroscopy with micro-electron volt energy resolution, 2021, Science

Uchiyama frequently collaborates with several researchers, with co-authorship counts highlighting relationships with:

  • Atsuya Muranaka
  • Kazunori Miyamoto
  • Yuki Nagashima
  • Yusuke Tanaka
  • Ken Tanaka

Their research portfolio consists of more than 240 publications in chemistry, with nearly as many in materials science. Subfields include materials chemistry and organic chemistry as principal areas, supported by contributions in molecular biology, pharmacology, and spectroscopy.

Best Publications

  • Deprotonative metalation using ate compounds: synergy, synthesis, and structure building

    Robert E. Mulvey;Florence Mongin;Masanobu Uchiyama;Yoshinori Kondo

  • TMP−Zincate as Highly Chemoselective Base for Directed Ortho Metalation

    Yoshinori Kondo;Manabu Shilai;Masanobu Uchiyama;Takao Sakamoto

  • Development of azo-based fluorescent probes to detect different levels of hypoxia.

    Wen Piao;Satoru Tsuda;Yuji Tanaka;Satoshi Maeda

  • Deprotonierende Metallierungen mit 'at‐Verbindungen: Synergie, Synthese und Strukturaufbau

    Robert E. Mulvey;Florence Mongin;Masanobu Uchiyama;Yoshinori Kondo

  • Generation of Functionalized Asymmetric Benzynes with TMP-Zincates. Effects of Ligands on Selectivity and Reactivity of Zincates

    Masanobu Uchiyama;Tomoko Miyoshi;Yumiko Kajihara;Takao Sakamoto

  • Reversible Near-Infrared/Blue Mechanofluorochromism of Aminobenzopyranoxanthene

    Masaru Tanioka;Shinichiro Kamino;Atsuya Muranaka;Yousuke Ooyama

  • Non-volatile organic memory with sub-millimetre bending radius

    Richard Hahnkee Kim;Hae Jin Kim;Insung Bae;Sun Kak Hwang

  • Radical Multicomponent Carboamination of [1.1.1]Propellane

    Junichiro Kanazawa;Katsuya Maeda;Masanobu Uchiyama

  • New Formulas for Organozincate Chemistry

    Masanobu Uchiyama;Mitsuyoshi Kameda;Osamu Mishima;Nobuko Yokoyama

  • An Aluminum Ate Base: Its Design, Structure, Function, and Reaction Mechanism

    Hiroshi Naka;Masanobu Uchiyama;Yotaro Matsumoto;Andrew E H Wheatley

  • Evolving Fluorophores into Circularly Polarized Luminophores with a Chiral Naphthalene Tetramer: Proposal of Excimer Chirality Rule for Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

    Kazuto Takaishi;Kazuhiro Iwachido;Ryosuke Takehana;Masanobu Uchiyama;Masanobu Uchiyama

  • Regiocontrolled intramolecular cyclizations of carboxylic acids to carbon-carbon triple bonds promoted by acid or base catalyst.

    Masanobu Uchiyama;Hiroki Ozawa;Kazuya Takuma;Yotaro Matsumoto

  • Design, Generation, and Synthetic Application of Borylzincate: Borylation of Aryl Halides and Borylzincation of Benzynes/Terminal Alkyne

    Yuki Nagashima;Ryo Takita;Kengo Yoshida;Keiichi Hirano

  • Recent Advances in the Synthetic Chemistry of Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane

    Junichiro Kanazawa;Masanobu Uchiyama

  • Finding Reaction Pathways for Multicomponent Reactions: The Passerini Reaction is a Four-Component Reaction†

    Satoshi Maeda;Shinsuke Komagawa;Masanobu Uchiyama;Keiji Morokuma;Keiji Morokuma

  • Deprotonative Metalation of Five-Membered Aromatic Heterocycles Using Mixed Lithium−Zinc Species

    Jean-Martial L'helgoual'ch;Anne Seggio;Floris Chevallier;Mitsuhiro Yonehara

  • Unique Reactivities of New Highly Coordinated Ate Complexes of Organozinc Derivatives

    Masanobu Uchiyama;Minako Koike;Mitsuyoshi Kameda;Yoshinori Kondo

  • Direct ortho cupration: a new route to regioselectively functionalized aromatics.

    Shinya Usui;Yuichi Hashimoto;James V. Morey;Andrew E. H. Wheatley

  • Regio- and chemoselective direct generation of functionalized aromatic aluminum compounds using aluminum ate base.

    Masanobu Uchiyama;Hiroshi Naka;Yotaro Matsumoto;Tomohiko Ohwada

  • General Design Strategy to Precisely Control the Emission of Fluorophores via a Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT) Process.

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  • An evaluation of amide group planarity in 7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane amides. Low amide bond rotation barrier in solution.

    Yuko Otani;Osamu Nagae;Yuji Naruse;Satoshi Inagaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Kondo
Yoshinori Kondo Tohoku University
Florence Mongin
Florence Mongin University of Rennes
Tomohiko Ohwada
Tomohiko Ohwada University of Tokyo
Nagao Kobayashi
Nagao Kobayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chihaya Adachi
Chihaya Adachi Kyushu University
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Keiji Morokuma
Keiji Morokuma Kyoto University
Yuichi Hashimoto
Yuichi Hashimoto University of Tokyo
Mami Yamazaki
Mami Yamazaki Chiba University

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