Ryoji Noyori

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Asymmetric catalysis in organic synthesis

  Ryōji Noyori

  4364
  Citations

• Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Opportunities (Nobel Lecture)

  Ryoji Noyori

  2792
  Citations

• Asymmetric Catalysis by Architectural and Functional Molecular Engineering: Practical Chemo‐ and Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones

  Ryoji Noyori;Takeshi Ohkuma

  2350
  Citations

• BINAP: an efficient chiral element for asymmetric catalysis

  Ryoji Noyori;Hidemasa Takaya

  1715
  Citations

• Enantioselective Addition of Organometallic Reagents to Carbonyl Compounds: Chirality Transfer, Multiplication, and Amplification†

  Ryoji Noyori;Masato Kitamura

  1567
  Citations

• Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones Catalyzed by Chiral Ruthenium(II) Complexes

  Shohei Hashiguchi;Akio Fujii;Jun Takehara;Takao Ikariya

  1493
  Citations

• Homogeneous Catalysis in Supercritical Fluids.

  Philip G. Jessop;Takao Ikariya;Ryoji Noyori

  1484
  Citations

• Green oxidation with aqueous hydrogen peroxide

  Ryoji Noyori;Masao Aoki;Kazuhiko Sato

  1453
  Citations

• Synthesis of 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (BINAP), an atropisomeric chiral bis(triaryl)phosphine, and its use in the rhodium(I)-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of .alpha.-(acylamino)acrylic acids

  A. Miyashita;A. Yasuda;H. Takaya;K. Toriumi

  1335
  Citations

• Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Using a Formic Acid−Triethylamine Mixture

  Akio Fujii;Shohei Hashiguchi;Nobuyuki Uematsu;and Takao Ikariya

  1333
  Citations

• The Catalyst Precursor, Catalyst, and Intermediate in the RuII-Promoted Asymmetric Hydrogen Transfer between Alcohols and Ketones

  Karl-Josef Haack;Shohei Hashiguchi;Akio Fujii;Takao Ikariya

  1245
  Citations

• Homogeneous Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide

  Philip G. Jessop;Takao. Ikariya;Ryoji. Noyori

  1200
  Citations

• A green' route to adipic acid: Direct oxidation of cyclohexenes with 30 percent hydrogen peroxide

  Kazuhiko Sato;Masao Aoki;Ryoji Noyori

  1166
  Citations

• Metal-ligand bifunctional catalysis: a nonclassical mechanism for asymmetric hydrogen transfer between alcohols and carbonyl compounds.

  Ryoji Noyori;and Masashi Yamakawa;Shohei Hashiguchi

  1079
  Citations

• Asymmetric hydrogenation of .beta.-keto carboxylic esters. A practical, purely chemical access to .beta.-hydroxy esters in high enantiomeric purity

  Ryoji Noyori;Takeshi Ohkuma;Masato Kitamura;Hidemasa Takaya

  1065
  Citations

• The Metal−Ligand Bifunctional Catalysis: A Theoretical Study on the Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer between Alcohols and Carbonyl Compounds

  Masashi Yamakawa;and Hisashi Ito;Ryoji Noyori

  973
  Citations

• Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines

  Nobuyuki Uematsu;Akio Fujii;Shohei Hashiguchi;Takao Ikariya

  933
  Citations

• Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of α, β-Acetylenic Ketones

  Kazuhiko Matsumura;Shohei Hashiguchi;Takao Ikariya;Ryoji Noyori

  929
  Citations

• PRACTICAL ENANTIOSELECTIVE HYDROGENATION OF AROMATIC KETONES

  Takeshi Ohkuma;Hirohito Ooka;Shohei Hashiguchi;Takao Ikariya

  925
  Citations

• Homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of supercritical carbon dioxide

  Philip G. Jessop;Takao Ikariya;Ryoji Noyori

  899
  Citations

• Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Opportunities (Nobel Lecture 2001)

  Ryoji Noyori

  463
  Citations