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Masayoshi Nishiura

Masayoshi Nishiura

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
11796
World Ranking
8586
National Ranking
580

Overview

Masayoshi Nishiura is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and focuses on research intersecting chemistry and materials science. Their work is primarily situated within the subfields of organic chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymers and plastics, and process chemistry and technology.

Their research extensively covers topics such as catalytic C-H functionalization methods, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, synthesis and catalytic reactions, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Frequent coauthors in Nishiura's research include Zhaomin Hou, Xuefeng Cong, Shao-Jie Lou, Qingde Zhuo, and Gen Luo. The collaboration pattern reflects a consistent engagement with these researchers over multiple projects.

The research outputs have been published across several prominent venues. The venues with the highest number of publications are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent publications provide insight into the specific areas of Nishiura's work. Some of the papers include:

  • Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters by Scandium-Catalyzed Intramolecular C-H Alkylation of Imidazoles with 1,1-Disubstituted Alkenes (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Enantioselective C-H Alkenylation of Ferrocenes with Alkynes by Half-Sandwich Scandium Catalyst (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Modular Access to Spiro-dihydroquinolines via Scandium-Catalyzed Dearomative Annulation of Quinolines with Alkynes (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Co-syndiospecific Alternating Copolymerization of Functionalized Propylenes and Styrene by Rare-Earth Catalysts (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Regiodivergent C-H Alkylation of Quinolines with Alkenes by Half-Sandwich Rare-Earth Catalysts (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Best Publications

  • Carboxylation of Organoboronic Esters Catalyzed by N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Copper(I) Complexes

    Takeshi Ohishi;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • π-Conjugated Aromatic Enynes as a Single-Emitting Component for White Electroluminescence

    Yu Liu;Masayoshi Nishiura;Yue Wang;Zhaomin Hou

  • Novel polymerization catalysts and hydride clusters from rare-earth metal dialkyls

    Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Half-sandwich rare-earth-catalyzed olefin polymerization, carbometalation, and hydroarylation.

    Masayoshi Nishiura;Fang Guo;Zhaomin Hou

  • Cationic Alkyl Rare-Earth Metal Complexes Bearing an Ancillary Bis(phosphinophenyl)amido Ligand: A Catalytic System for Living cis-1,4-Polymerization and Copolymerization of Isoprene and Butadiene

    Lixin Zhang;Toshiaki Suzuki;Yi Luo;Masayoshi Nishiura

  • Isoprene polymerization with yttrium amidinate catalysts: switching the regio- and stereoselectivity by addition of AlMe3.

    Lixin Zhang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Masahiro Yuki;Yi Luo

  • Novel Z-selective head-to-head dimerization of terminal alkynes catalyzed by lanthanide half-metallocene complexes.

    Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou;Yasuo Wakatsuki;Taeko Yamaki

  • Catalytic addition of amine N-H bonds to carbodiimides by half-sandwich rare-earth metal complexes: efficient synthesis of substituted guanidines through amine protonolysis of rare-earth metal guanidinates.

    Wen-Xiong Zhang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Catalytic addition of terminal alkynes to carbodiimides by half-sandwich rare earth metal complexes.

    Wen-Xiong Zhang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Alternating and Random Copolymerization of Isoprene and Ethylene Catalyzed by Cationic Half-Sandwich Scandium Alkyls

    Xiaofang Li;Masayoshi Nishiura;Lihong Hu;Kyouichi Mori

  • Alternating Copolymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide and Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by Organo Rare Earth Metal Complexes

    Dongmei Cui;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Scandium-Catalyzed Silylation of Aromatic CH Bonds

    Juzo Oyamada;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Synthesis of Self-Healing Polymers by Scandium-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene and Anisylpropylenes

    Haobing Wang;Yang Yang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Yuji Higaki

  • Cationic scandium aminobenzyl complexes. Synthesis, structure and unprecedented catalysis of copolymerization of 1-hexene and dicyclopentadiene.

    Xiaofang Li;Masayoshi Nishiura;Kyouichi Mori;Tomohiro Mashiko

  • Lanthanide–Imido Complexes and Their Reactions with Benzonitrile

    Dongmei Cui;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Yttrium-Catalyzed Addition of Benzylic CH Bonds of Alkyl Pyridines to Olefins

    Bing-Tao Guan;Baoli Wang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Isolation and structural characterization of 1-zirconacyclopent-3-yne, five-membered cyclic alkynes.

    Noriyuki Suzuki;Masayoshi Nishiura;Yasuo Wakatsuki

  • Synthesis of Chiral Aminocyclopropanes by Rare‐Earth‐Metal‐Catalyzed Cyclopropene Hydroamination

    Huai-Long Teng;Yong Luo;Baoli Wang;Liang Zhang

  • Asymmetric Yttrium-Catalyzed C(sp3)−H Addition of 2-Methyl Azaarenes to Cyclopropenes

    Yong Luo;Huai-Long Teng;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou

  • Ring-Opening Polymerization and Copolymerization of Lactones by Samarium(II) Aryloxide Complexes

    Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhaomin Hou;Take-Aki Koizumi;Tsuneo Imamoto

  • Ultimately Specific 1,4-cis Polymerization of 1,3-Butadiene with a Novel Gadolinium Catalyst

    Shojiro Kaita;Zhaomin Hou;Masayoshi Nishiura;Yoshiharu Doi

  • Heteroatom-assisted olefin polymerization by rare-earth metal catalysts

    Chunxiang Wang;Gen Luo;Masayoshi Nishiura;Guoyong Song

Frequent Co-Authors

Wen-Xiong Zhang
Wen-Xiong Zhang Peking University
Yasuo Wakatsuki
Yasuo Wakatsuki Bridgestone (Japan)
Tsuneo Imamoto
Tsuneo Imamoto Chiba University
Yugen Zhang
Yugen Zhang Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Aurel Radulescu
Aurel Radulescu Forschungszentrum Jülich
Xiaofang Li
Xiaofang Li Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Zhenfeng Xi
Zhenfeng Xi Peking University
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University

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