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Masato Tanaka is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, notably within engineering and chemistry. The main focus areas include organic chemistry, management science and operations research, biomedical engineering, computational theory and mathematics, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Tanaka's work covers a range of scientific topics, including:

  • Game theory and voting systems
  • Game theory and applications
  • Advanced graph theory research
  • Industrial technology and control systems
  • Electromagnetic launch and propulsion technology
  • Cyclization and aryne chemistry
  • Catalytic alkyne reactions

Recent publications by Tanaka include:

  • "Intramolecular Benzyne-Phenolate [4+2] Cycloadditions," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Pulse duration dependence of ablation threshold for fused silica in the visible femtosecond regime," 2020, Applied Physics A
  • "Oxidative addition of Bi-C bonds to Pt(0): reaction of Pt(PEt3)3 with cyclic organobismuth compounds," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "Intramolecular Benzyne-Phenolate [4+2] Cycloadditions," 2020, Angewandte Chemie
  • "Effect of Electrolyte Concentration on Cell Sensing by Measuring Ionic Current Waveform through Micropores," 2021, Biosensors

The frequent collaborators in Tanaka's research include Tomomi Matsui, Keigo Ikeda, Ayato Endo, Yuhei Majima, and Kazuki Ogawa.

Tanaka's publications have appeared in a variety of scientific journals and venues, with several contributions to Biosensors and arXiv (Cornell University), as well as works published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics A, and Chemical Communications.

Best Publications

  • Highly efficient AuI-catalyzed hydration of alkynes.

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  • Carbonylation of hydrocarbons via carbon-hydrogen activation catalyzed by RhCl(CO)(PMe3)2 under irradiation

    Toshiyasu Sakakura;Touru Sodeyama;Koushi Sasaki;Keisuke Wada

  • Au(I)-catalyzed highly efficient intermolecular hydroamination of alkynes.

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  • Gold catalysis: deuterated substrates as the key for an experimental insight into the mechanism and selectivity of the phenol synthesis.

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Matthias Rudolph;Hans-Ullrich Siehl;Masato Tanaka

  • An EXAFS study on the effects of natural organic matter and the expandability of clay minerals on cesium adsorption and mobility

    Q.H. Fan;M. Tanaka;K. Tanaka;A. Sakaguchi

  • Oxidative Addition of HP(O)Ph2 to Platinum(0) and Palladium(0) Complexes and Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrophosphinylation of Alkynes

    Li-Biao Han;Nami Choi;Masato Tanaka

  • Fluorometric sensing of biogenic amines with aggregation-induced emission-active tetraphenylethenes.

    Mitsutaka Nakamura;Takanobu Sanji;Masato Tanaka

  • THE CHEMISTRY OF BORYLSTANNANES : OXIDATIVE ADDITION TO PALLADIUM SPECIES AND ITS APPLICATION TO PALLADIUM-CATALYZED BORYLSTANNATION OF ALKYNES

    Shun-ya Onozawa;Yasuo Hatanaka;Toshiyasu Sakakura;and Shigeru Shimada

  • Catalytic dihydroxylation of olefins with hydrogen peroxide: an organic-solvent- and metal-free system.

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  • High Reactivity of a Five-Membered Cyclic Hydrogen Phosphonate Leading to Development of Facile Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrophosphorylation of Alkenes

    Li-Biao Han;Farzad Mirzaei;and Chang-Qiu Zhao;Masato Tanaka

  • Retention of configuration on the oxidative addition of P-H bond to platinum (0) complexes: the first straightforward synthesis of enantiomerically pure P-chiral alkenylphosphinates via palladium-catalyzed stereospecific hydrophosphinylation of alkynes.

    Li-Biao Han;Chang-Qiu Zhao;Shun-Ya Onozawa;Midori Goto

  • Transition metal-catalysed addition reactions of H–heteroatom and inter-heteroatom bonds to carbon–carbon unsaturated linkages via oxidative additions

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  • Palladium-catalysed borylsilylation of alkynes and borylsilylative carbocyclization of diynes and an enyne compound

    Shun-ya Onozawa;Yasuo Hatanaka;Masato Tanaka

  • Palladium-catalysed carbonylation of aryl halides in ionic liquid media: high catalyst stability and significant rate-enhancement in alkoxycarbonylation

    Eiichiro Mizushima;Teruyuki Hayashi;Masato Tanaka

  • Carbonylation of organic halides in the presence of terminal acetylenes; novel acetylenic ketone synthesis

    Toshiaki Kobayashi;Masato Tanaka

  • Base-Mediated Cyclization Reaction of 2-Alkynylphenylphosphine Oxides: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Benzo[b]phosphole Oxides

    Takanobu Sanji;Kentaro Shiraishi;Taigo Kashiwabara;Masato Tanaka

  • Hydrosilylation catalysed by organoneodymium complexes

    Toshiyasu Sakakura;Hans-Jürgen Lautenschlager;Masato Tanaka

  • Fluorescence Turn-On Sensing of Lectins with Mannose-Substituted Tetraphenylethenes Based on Aggregation-Induced Emission

    Takanobu Sanji;Kentaro Shiraishi;Mitsutaka Nakamura;Masato Tanaka

  • Palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl chlorides

    Nagavelli Prabhakar Reddy;Masato Tanaka

  • Selective arylation of a silicon-hydrogen bond in o-bis(dimethylsilyl)benzene via carbon-hydrogen bond activation of arenes

    Yuko Uchimaru;Ahmed Mouneer M. El Sayed;Masato Tanaka

  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydrophosphorylation of Terminal Alkynes Leading to Highly Selective Formation of (E)-Alkenylphosphonates: Complete Reversal of Regioselectivity to the Palladium-Catalyzed Counterpart We are grateful to the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) for financial support through the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) program and for a postdoctoral fellowship to C.-Q.Z.

    Chang-Qiu Zhao;Li-Biao Han;Midori Goto;Masato Tanaka

  • Catalytic C–H Activation. Silylation of Arenes with Hydrosilane or Disilane by RhCl(CO)(PMe3)2 under Irradiation

    Toshiyasu Sakakura;Yuko Tokunaga;Touru Sodeyama;Masato Tanaka

  • Unusual Reactivity of 1,2-Disilylbenzene toward Pt(0) Complexes. Isolation of the First PtIVSi4P2 and Dinuclear, Mixed-Valence PtIIPtIVSi4P4 Complexes

    Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka;Kazumasa Honda

  • Oxidative Addition of the Si-C Bonds of Silacyclobutanes to Pt(PEt3)3 and Highly Selective Platinum(0)-Catalyzed Di- or Polymerization of 1,1-Dimethyl-1-silacyclobutane

    Hiroshi Yamashita;Masato Tanaka;Kazumasa Honda

  • Synthesis and Structure of Formally Hexavalent Palladium Complexes

    Wanzhi Chen;Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeru Shimada
Shigeru Shimada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Li-Biao Han
Li-Biao Han National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Takayoshi Nakamura
Takayoshi Nakamura Hokkaido University
Fujio Abe
Fujio Abe National Institute for Materials Science
Hideki Sakurai
Hideki Sakurai Tokyo University of Science
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Wanzhi Chen
Wanzhi Chen Zhejiang University
Shinichi Itsuno
Shinichi Itsuno Toyohashi University of Technology
Masanobu Uchiyama
Masanobu Uchiyama University of Tokyo
Tamotsu Takahashi
Tamotsu Takahashi Hokkaido University

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