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Nobuharu Iwasawa is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their work spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, Radical Photochemical Reactions, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis.

Iwasawa has published research in several frequent venues, with multiple publications recorded in The Cambridge Structural Database, Organometallics, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ChemSusChem, and Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

Recent papers highlight their research scope and include:

  • Supramolecular Photocatalysis by Utilizing the Host-Guest Charge-Transfer Interaction: Visible-Light-Induced Generation of Triplet Anthracenes for [4+2] Cycloaddition Reactions (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Shining Visible Light on Reductive Elimination: Acridine-Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Halides with Carboxylic Acids (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Use of Isopropyl Alcohol as a Reductant for Catalytic Dehydoxylative Dimerization of Benzylic Alcohols Utilizing Ti−O Bond Photohomolysis (2021, European Journal of Organic Chemistry)
  • Visible-Light-Enabled Carboxylation of Benzyl Alcohol Derivatives with CO2 Using a Palladium/Iridium Dual Catalyst (2021, ChemSusChem)
  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Chemoselective Hydrosilylation of Nitriles to an Imine Oxidation Level Enabled by a Pincer-type Group 13 Metallylene Ligand (2020, ACS Catalysis)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Naoyuki Toriumi
  • Jun Takaya
  • Kohei Takahashi
  • Yanzong Lyu
  • Kazuishi Fukuda

Best Publications

  • Hydrocarboxylation of allenes with CO2 catalyzed by silyl pincer-type palladium complex.

    Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Rhodium(I)-catalyzed carboxylation of aryl- and alkenylboronic esters with CO2.

    Kazutoshi Ukai;Masao Aoki;Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction Catalyzed by a Chiral Titanium Reagent

    Koichi Narasaka;Nobuharu Iwasawa;Masayuki Inoue;Tohru Yamada

  • Rhodium(I)-catalyzed direct carboxylation of arenes with CO2 via chelation-assisted C-H bond activation.

    Hajime Mizuno;Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Palladium(II)-catalyzed direct carboxylation of alkenyl C-H bonds with CO2.

    Kota Sasano;Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Copper(I)-Catalyzed Carboxylation of Aryl- and Alkenylboronic Esters

    Jun Takaya;Satoshi Tadami;Kazutoshi Ukai;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Catalytic, Direct Synthesis of Bis(boronate) Compounds

    Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Visible-Light-Driven Carboxylation of Aryl Halides by the Combined Use of Palladium and Photoredox Catalysts.

    Katsuya Shimomaki;Kei Murata;Ruben Martin;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Catalysis of Palladium Complexes Bearing a Group 13 Metalloligand: Remarkable Effect of an Aluminum-Metalloligand in Hydrosilylation of CO2

    Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Reactions of iodinated vinylidene complexes generated from 1-iodo-1-alkynes and W(CO)5(thf).

    Tomoya Miura;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Synthetic control leading to chiral compounds

    Teruaki Mukaiyama;Nobuharu Iwasawa;Rodney W. Stevens;Toru Haga

  • Efficient Synthesis of Diborylalkenes from Alkenes and Diboron by a New PSiP-Pincer Palladium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Borylation

    Jun Takaya;Naohiro Kirai;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Generation and reaction of metal-containing carbonyl ylides: tandem [3 + 2]-cycloaddition--carbene insertion leading to novel polycyclic compounds.

    Nobuharu Iwasawa;Masahide Shido;Hiroyuki Kusama

  • Boronic Esters as a System for Crystallization-Induced Dynamic Self-Assembly Equipped with an “On−Off” Switch for Equilibration

    Nobuharu Iwasawa;Hiroki Takahagi

  • Direct carboxylation of simple arenes with CO2 through a rhodium-catalyzed C–H bond activation

    Takuya Suga;Hajime Mizuno;Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Efficient one-to-one coupling of easily available 1,3-dienes with carbon dioxide.

    Jun Takaya;Kota Sasano;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Pt(II)- or Au(III)-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition of metal-containing azomethine ylides: highly efficient synthesis of the mitosene skeleton.

    Hiroyuki Kusama;Yuichi Miyashita;Jun Takaya;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Generation and reaction of tungsten-containing carbonyl ylides: [3 + 2]-cycloaddition reaction with electron-rich alkenes.

    Hiroyuki Kusama;Hideaki Funami;Masahide Shido;Yoshihiro Hara

  • Asymmetric Hydrocyanation of Aldehydes Using Chiral Titanium Reagents

    Hiroyuki Minamikawa;Satoshi Hayakawa;Tohru Yamada;Nobuharu Iwasawa

  • Preparation of Substituted Cyclopentadienes through Platinum(II)‐Catalyzed Cyclization of 1,2,4‐Trienes

    Hideaki Funami;Hiroyuki Kusama;Nobuharu Iwasawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Teruaki Mukaiyama
Teruaki Mukaiyama Kitasato University
Koichi Narasaka
Koichi Narasaka University of Tokyo
Tomoya Miura
Tomoya Miura Kyoto University
Hidehiro Uekusa
Hidehiro Uekusa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tohru Yamada
Tohru Yamada Keio University
Phil Ho Lee
Phil Ho Lee Kangwon National University
Robert S. Coleman
Robert S. Coleman The Ohio State University
Masayuki Inoue
Masayuki Inoue University of Tokyo
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi University of Tokyo
Sunggak Kim
Sunggak Kim Nanyang Technological University

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