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Mitsuo Kira is a researcher affiliated with Hangzhou Normal University in China. Their primary fields of study include Materials Science and Chemistry, with particular focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Biomaterials, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work predominantly explores topics related to Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds. Additional areas of study cover Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, Nanocluster synthesis and applications, Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics, and the synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds.

Notable recent papers by Mitsuo Kira include:

  • Isolable silylenes and their diverse reactivity, 2022, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Structure and reactivity of germylene-bridged digold complexes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Trinuclear anionic gold clusters bridged by dialkylsilylene and dialkylgermylene, 2022, Chemical Communications
  • Isolable Tetragold(0) Clusters with Polarity-Tunable exo-Au−Au Bond via Intramolecular σ-Aromatization, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Diverse reactions of a fluorostannylenoid towards ethynes, 2021, Dalton Transactions

Mitsuo Kira collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Zhifang Li, Liliang Wang, Takeaki Iwamoto, Dongzhu Yin, and Akifumi Kobayashi.

The researcher's works have been published repeatedly in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, and Chemical Communications.

Best Publications

  • The First Isolable Dialkylsilylene

    Mitsuo Kira;Shintaro Ishida;Takeaki Iwamoto;Chizuko Kabuto

  • A stable silicon-based allene analogue with a formally sp -hybridized silicon atom

    S. Ishida;T. Iwamoto;C. Kabuto;M. Kira

  • Progress in the Chemistry of Stable Disilenes

    Mitsuo Kira;Takeaki Iwamoto;Takeaki Iwamoto

  • An isolable dialkylsilylene and its derivatives. A step toward comprehension of heavy unsaturated bonds

    Mitsuo Kira;Mitsuo Kira

  • The vilsmeier-haack reaction - III Cyclization of hydrazones to pyrazoles

    M.A. Kira;M.O. Abdel-Rahman;K.Z. Gadalla

  • Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 287. Synthesis and x-ray structure of the first dicoordinate dialkylstannylene that is monomeric in the solid state

    Mitsuo Kira;Rika Yauchibara;Ryuichi Hirano;Chizuko Kabuto

  • Isolable silylene, disilenes, trisilaallene, and related compounds

    Mitsuo Kira

  • Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 240. Pentacoordinate allylsilicates: characterization and highly stereoselective reaction with aldehydes

    Mitsuo. Kira;Kazuhiko. Sato;Hideki. Sakurai

  • Trigermaallene and 1,3-Digermasilaallene

    Takeaki Iwamoto;Hidenori Masuda;Chizuko Kabuto;Mitsuo Kira

  • Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 292. An NMR study of the formation of silyloxonium ions by using tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate as counteranion

    Mitsuo Kira;Takakazu Hino;Hideki Sakurai

  • Intermolecular donation of a .sigma.-electron from group IVb catenates to tetracyanoethylene. Evidence of electron paramagnetic resonance and charge-transfer spectra

    Hideki. Sakurai;Mitsuo. Kira;Takateru. Uchida

  • The first stable cyclic disilene: Hexakis(trialkylsilyl)tetrasilacyclobutene

    Mitsuo Kira;Takeaki Iwamoto;Chizuko Kabuto

  • Synthesis, properties, and reactions of a series of stable dialkyl-substituted silicon-chalcogen doubly bonded compounds.

    Takeaki Iwamoto;Katsuhiro Sato;Shintaro Ishida;Chizuko Kabuto

  • Excited-state reactions of an isolable silylene with aromatic compounds.

    Mitsuo Kira;Shintaro Ishida;Takeaki Iwamoto;Chizuko Kabuto

  • Stable Tetrakis(trialkylsilyl)disilenes; Synthesis, X-Ray Structures, and UV/VIS Spectra

    Mitsuo Kira;Toyotaro Maruyama;Chizuko Kabuto;Keisuke Ebata

  • Stereohomogeneous synthesis of (E)- and (Z)-crotyltrifluorosilanes and highly stereoselective allylation of aldehydes

    Mitsuo Kira;Takakazu Hino;Hideki Sakurai

  • A Helmeted Dialkylsilylene

    Mitsuo Kira;Takeaki Iwamoto;Shintaro Ishida

  • The First Stable Cyclotrisilene

    Takeaki Iwamoto;Chizuko Kabuto;Mitsuo Kira

  • Addition of stable nitroxide radical to stable divalent compounds of heavier group 14 elements.

    Takeaki Iwamoto;Hidenori Masuda;Shintaro Ishida;Chizuko Kabuto

  • A stable bicyclic compound with two Si=Si double bonds.

    Takeaki Iwamoto;Makoto Tamura;Chizuko Kabuto;Mitsuo Kira

  • Regiospecific and highly stereoselective allylation of aldehydes with allyltrifluorosilane activated by fluoride ions.

    Mitsuo Kira;Mineo Kobayashi;Hideki Sakurai

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideki Sakurai
Hideki Sakurai Tokyo University of Science
Takeaki Iwamoto
Takeaki Iwamoto Tohoku University
Chizuko Kabuto
Chizuko Kabuto Tohoku University
Shin-ya Koshihara
Shin-ya Koshihara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kazuhiko Sato
Kazuhiko Sato National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Naohiko Mikami
Naohiko Mikami Tohoku University
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Makoto Kumada
Makoto Kumada Kyoto University
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe University of Tokyo

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