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Masato Kitamura

Masato Kitamura

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
15187
World Ranking
11966
National Ranking
887

Masato Kitamura publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masato Kitamura sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 229 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Masato Kitamura D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masato Kitamura sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masato Kitamura is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has a research focus spanning Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work includes 28 publications in Chemistry and 13 in Materials Science, emphasizing various subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of Kitamura's research encompass asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, with 22 publications dedicated to this area. They have also contributed to fields involving asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and catalytic reactions, chemical synthesis and analysis, as well as axial and atropisomeric chirality synthesis.

Kitamura's research articles have appeared in several scholarly venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • ChemCatChem
  • Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include Shinji Tanaka, with whom Kitamura has coauthored 11 papers; Thien Phuc Le and Masahiro Yoshimura, each linked to 5 joint publications; Shoutaro Iwase and Kazuki Fujita, associated with 3 publications each.

Representative recent papers from Kitamura's work include:

  • "Stereodivergent dehydrative allylation of β-keto esters using a Ru/Pd synergistic catalyst" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "CpRu/Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Dehydrative Cyclization of Pyrroles N-Tethered with Allylic Alcohols" (2020), published in Organic Letters
  • "Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of bismuth antimony telluride thermoelectric materials fabricated at various ball-milling speeds with yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramic vessel and balls" (2020), published in Ceramics International
  • "Asymmetric Synthesis of Multi-substituted Prolines via a Catalytic 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Using a Monocationic ZnII OAc Complex of a Chiral Bisamidine Ligand, Naph-diPIM-dioxo-R" (2020), published in ChemCatChem
  • "Asymmetric Dehydrative Allylation Using Soft Ruthenium and Hard Brønsted Acid Combined Catalyst" (2021), published in The Chemical Record

Best Publications

  • Enantioselective Addition of Organometallic Reagents to Carbonyl Compounds: Chirality Transfer, Multiplication, and Amplification†

    Ryoji Noyori;Masato Kitamura

  • Asymmetric hydrogenation of .beta.-keto carboxylic esters. A practical, purely chemical access to .beta.-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purity

    Ryoji Noyori;Takeshi Ohkuma;Masato Kitamura;Hidemasa Takaya

  • Enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes promoted by chiral amino alcohols. Mechanism and nonlinear effect

    M. Kitamura;S. Okada;S. Suga;R. Noyori

  • Catalytic asymmetric induction. Highly enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes

    Masato. Kitamura;Seiji. Suga;Koji. Kawai;Ryoji. Noyori

  • Homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation of functionalized ketones

    Masato. Kitamura;Takeshi. Ohkuma;Shinichi. Inoue;Noboru. Sayo

  • Stereoselective Organic Synthesis via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution

    Ryoji Noyori;Makoto Tokunaga;Masato Kitamura

  • Stereoselective hydrogenation via dynamic kinetic resolution

    R. Noyori;T. Ikeda;T. Ohkuma;M. Widhalm

  • Asymmetric hydrogenation of unsaturated carboxylic acids catalyzed by BINAP-ruthenium(II) complexes

    Tetsuo Ohta;Hidemasa Takaya;Masato Kitamura;Katsunori Nagai

  • Asymmetric synthesis of isoquinoline alkaloids by homogeneous catalysis

    Ryoji. Noyori;Masako. Ohta;Yi. Hsiao;Masato. Kitamura

  • Toward efficient asymmetric hydrogenation: Architectural and functional engineering of chiral molecular catalysts

    Ryoji Noyori;Masato Kitamura;Takeshi Ohkuma

  • Enantioselektive Addition von Organometallreagentien an Carbonylverbindungen: Übertragung, Vervielfältigung und Verstärkung der Chiralität

    Ryoji Noyori;Masato Kitamura

  • Quantitative Analysis of the Chiral Amplification in the Amino Alcohol-Promoted Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes with Dialkylzincs

    Masato Kitamura;Seiji Suga;Hiromasa Oka;Ryoji Noyori

  • Enantioselective synthesis of β-amino acids based on BINAP—ruthenium(II) catalyzed hydrogenation

    William D. Lubell;Masato Kitamura;Ryoji Noyori

  • Enantioselective addition of diorganozincs to aldehydes catalyzed by β-amino alcohols

    R. Noyori;S. Suga;K. Kawai;S. Okada

  • Self and Nonself Recognition of Asymmetric Catalysts. Nonlinear Effects in the Amino Alcohol-Promoted Enantioselective Addition of Dialkylzincs to Aldehydes

    Masato Kitamura;Seiji Suga;Makoto Niwa;Ryoji Noyori

  • Convenient preparation of binap-ruthenium(II) complexes catalyzing asymmetric hydrogenation of functionalized ketones

    M. Kitamura;M. Tokunaga;T. Ohkuma;R. Noyori

  • Quantitative expression of dynamic kinetic resolution of chirally labile enantiomers: stereoselective hydrogenation of 2-substituted 3-oxo carboxylic esters catalyzed by BINAP-ruthenium(II) complexes

    M. Kitamura;M. Tokunaga;R. Noyori

  • Enantioselective alkylation of carbonyl compounds. From stoichiometric to catalytic asymmetric induction

    R. Noyori;S. Suga;K. Kawai;S. Okada

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation of 3‐Oxo Carboxylates Using Binap‐Ruthenium Complexes: (R)‐(−)‐Methyl 3‐Hydroxybutanoate

    Masato Kitamura;Makoto Tokunaga;Takeshi Ohkuma;Ryoji Noyori

  • Kinetic resolution of racemic allylic alcohols by BINAP-ruthenium(II) catalyzed hydrogenation

    Masato Kitamura;Isamu Kasahara;Kenji Manabe;Ryoji Noyori

  • A practical asymmetric synthesis of carnitine

    M. Kitamura;T. Ohkuma;H. Takaya;R. Noyori

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University
Hidemasa Takaya
Hidemasa Takaya Kyoto University
Takeshi Ohkuma
Takeshi Ohkuma Hokkaido University
Seiji Suga
Seiji Suga Okayama University
Makoto Tokunaga
Makoto Tokunaga Kyushu University
Tohru Fukuyama
Tohru Fukuyama Nagoya University
Hanmin Huang
Hanmin Huang University of Science and Technology of China
Minoru Isobe
Minoru Isobe National Tsing Hua University
Toshio Goto
Toshio Goto Nagoya University
William D. Lubell
William D. Lubell University of Montreal

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