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Masaya Sawamura

Masaya Sawamura

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Chemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
21628
World Ranking
2470
National Ranking
137

Overview

Masaya Sawamura is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, focusing primarily on chemistry and materials science. Their scholarly output includes substantial contributions to organic chemistry and materials chemistry, alongside engagements in inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and pharmaceutical science.

The research topics covered by Sawamura's work span a variety of specialized areas:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Catalytic Alkyne Reactions

Sawamura's publication record includes work in numerous notable venues, such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Letters
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in Sawamura's research include Kosuke Higashida, Tomohiro Iwai, Y. Shimizu, Vishal Kumar Rawat, and Yusuke Masuda.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored with various colleagues are:

  • "Construction of Medium-Sized Rings by Gold Catalysis," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "RETRACTED: Asymmetric remote C-H borylation of aliphatic amides and esters with a modular iridium catalyst," 2020, Science
  • "Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Acylation of Allylic Phosphates with Acylsilanes," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Phosphinylation of Non-activated Aryl Fluorides through Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution at the Boundary of Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Visible-Light-Driven α-Allylation of Carboxylic Acids," 2021, ACS Catalysis

The scope of Sawamura's work reflects an integration of synthetic methods, catalysis, and crystallographic analysis designed to elucidate molecular structures and reaction mechanisms. This interdisciplinary approach places emphasis on catalytic processes involving functionalization and photoinduced reactions, expanding knowledge in both organic synthesis and materials applications.

Best Publications

  • Catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction: reaction of aldehydes with isocyanoacetate catalyzed by a chiral ferrocenylphosphine-gold(I) complex

    Yoshihiko. Ito;Masaya. Sawamura;Tamio. Hayashi

  • Reversible Mechanochromic Luminescence of [(C6F5Au)2(μ-1,4-Diisocyanobenzene)]

    Hajime Ito;Tomohisa Saito;Naoya Oshima;Noboru Kitamura

  • CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS BY MEANS OF SECONDARY INTERACTION BETWEEN CHIRAL LIGANDS AND SUBSTRATES

    Masaya Sawamura;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Spherical bilayer vesicles of fullerene-based surfactants in water: a laser light scattering study

    Shuiqin Zhou;Christian Burger;Benjamin Chu;Masaya Sawamura

  • Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals

    Masaya Sawamura;Kenji Kawai;Yutaka Matsuo;Kiyoshi Kanie

  • An Enantioselective Two-Component Catalyst System: Rh−Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation of Activated Nitriles

    Masaya Sawamura;Masaki Sudoh;Yoshihiko Ito

  • THE FIRST PENTAHAPTOFULLERENE METAL COMPLEXES

    Masaya Sawamura;Hitoshi Iikura;Eiichi Nakamura

  • Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Substitution of Allylic Carbonates with Diboron: An Efficient Route to Optically Active α-Chiral Allylboronates

    Hajime Ito;Shinichiro Ito;Yusuke Sasaki;Kou Matsuura

  • Directed Ortho Borylation of Functionalized Arenes Catalyzed by a Silica-Supported Compact Phosphine−Iridium System

    Soichiro Kawamorita;Hirohisa Ohmiya;Kenji Hara;Atsushi Fukuoka

  • Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Site-Selective C–H Functionalization of Quinolines beyond C2 Selectivity

    Tomohiro Iwai;Masaya Sawamura

  • Synthesis of Optically Active Boron–Silicon Bifunctional Cyclopropane Derivatives through Enantioselective Copper(I)‐Catalyzed Reaction of Allylic Carbonates with a Diboron Derivative

    Hajime Ito;Yuki Kosaka;Kousuke Nonoyama;Yusuke Sasaki

  • Copper-Catalyzed γ-Selective and Stereospecific Substitution Reaction of Allylic Carbonates with Diboron: Efficient Route to Chiral Allylboron Compounds

    Hajime Ito;Chika Kawakami;Masaya Sawamura

  • Catalytic asymmetric synthesis with trans-chelating chiral diphosphine ligand TRAP: rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition of .alpha.-cyano carboxylates

    Masaya Sawamura;Hitoshi Hamashima;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Copper(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Monoborylation of 1,3-Dienes: Synthesis of Enantioenriched Cyclic Homoallyl- and Allylboronates

    Yusuke Sasaki;Chongmin Zhong;Masaya Sawamura;Hajime Ito

  • Chiral phosphine ligands modified by crown ethers: an application to palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylation of .beta.-diketones

    Masaya Sawamura;Hiroshi Nagata;Hiroaki Sakamoto;Yoshihiko Ito

  • Construction of Medium-Sized Rings by Gold Catalysis.

    Ronald L. Reyes;Tomohiro Iwai;Masaya Sawamura

  • Asymmetric synthesis of β-hydroxy-α-alkylamino acids by asymmetric aldol reaction of α-isocyanocarboxylates catalyzed by chiral ferrocenylphosphine-gold(I) complexes

    Yoshihiko Ito;Masaya Sawamura;Eiji Shirakawa;Keiichi Hayashizaki

  • Rh-Catalyzed Borylation of N-Adjacent C(sp3)–H Bonds with a Silica-Supported Triarylphosphine Ligand

    Soichiro Kawamorita;Tatsuya Miyazaki;Tomohiro Iwai;Hirohisa Ohmiya

  • Copper(I)-catalyzed substitution of propargylic carbonates with diboron: selective synthesis of multisubstituted allenylboronates.

    Hajime Ito;Yusuke Sasaki;Masaya Sawamura

  • Direct enantio-convergent transformation of racemic substrates without racemization or symmetrization

    Hajime Ito;Shun Kunii;Masaya Sawamura

  • Synthesis, structure, and aromaticity of a hoop-shaped cyclic benzenoid [10]cyclophenacene

    Eiichi Nakamura;Kazukuni Tahara;Yutaka Matsuo;Masaya Sawamura

  • Functionalized Fullerene as an Artificial Vector for Transfection

    Eiichi Nakamura;Hiroyuki Isobe;Naoki Tomita;Masaya Sawamura

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of trans-Aryl- and -Heteroaryl-Substituted Cyclopropylboronates by Copper(I)-Catalyzed Reactions of Allylic Phosphates with a Diboron Derivative

    Chongmin Zhong;Shun Kunii;Yuki Kosaka;Masaya Sawamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirohisa Ohmiya
Hirohisa Ohmiya Kyoto University
Yoshihiko Ito
Yoshihiko Ito Kyoto University
Hajime Ito
Hajime Ito Hokkaido University
Eiichi Nakamura
Eiichi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Tamio Hayashi
Tamio Hayashi National Taiwan Normal University
Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe University of Tokyo
Yutaka Matsuo
Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo
Atsushi Fukuoka
Atsushi Fukuoka Hokkaido University
Yoichiro Kuninobu
Yoichiro Kuninobu Kyushu University
Kohei Uosaki
Kohei Uosaki National Institute for Materials Science

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