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2026

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D-Index
103
Citations
39418
World Ranking
1113
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Shigeru Nagase is affiliated with the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry in Japan, where the focus is primarily on advancing research in materials science and chemistry. Their work spans multiple interconnected areas within these fields, with significant contributions to materials chemistry and organic chemistry as well as inorganic chemistry.

The main areas of study for Nagase include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology

Their research topics are comprehensive and cover several specialized themes, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics

Shigeru Nagase has published extensively in renowned scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Molecules

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Nagase illustrate the diversity of their research:

  • Sn(IV)-free tin perovskite films realized by in situ Sn(0) nanoparticle treatment of the precursor solution, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Synthesis, structure and characterization of new dithiocarbazate-based mixed ligand oxidovanadium(IV) complexes: DNA/HSA interaction, cytotoxic activity and DFT studies, 2020, New Journal of Chemistry
  • Reductive Difunctionalization of Aryl Alkenes with Sodium Metal and Reduction-Resistant Alkoxy-Substituted Electrophiles, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Development of a Red-Light-Controllable Nitric Oxide Releaser to Control Smooth Muscle Relaxation in Vivo, 2020, ACS Chemical Biology
  • Solvent-Dependent Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Mitsunobu Glycosylation with Unprotected Pyranoses, 2020, Organic Letters

Collaborations have played a notable role in Nagase's work, with frequent co-authors contributing to many publications. These collaborators include:

  • Takumi Furuta
  • Shohei Hamada
  • Shogo Morisako
  • Norihiro Tokitoh
  • Yusuke Kobayashi

Best Publications

  • Hydrazine and Thermal Reduction of Graphene Oxide: Reaction Mechanisms, Product Structures, and Reaction Design

    Xingfa Gao;Joonkyung Jang;Shigeru Nagase

  • Current status and future developments of endohedral metallofullerenes

    Xing Lu;Xing Lu;Lai Feng;Lai Feng;Takeshi Akasaka;Shigeru Nagase

  • Synthesis of Metallophthalocyanine Covalent Organic Frameworks That Exhibit High Carrier Mobility and Photoconductivity

    Xuesong Ding;Jia Guo;Xiao Feng;Yoshihito Honsho

  • Large-Scale Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Yutaka Maeda;Shin-Ichi Kimura;Makoto Kanda;Yuya Hirashima

  • An n-Channel Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework

    Xuesong Ding;Long Chen;Yoshihito Honsho;Xiao Feng

  • Quasiparticle energies and excitonic effects of the two-dimensional carbon allotrope graphdiyne: Theory and experiment

    Guangfu Luo;Xuemin Qian;Huibiao Liu;Rui Qin

  • 13C and 139La NMR Studies of La2@C80: First Evidence for Circular Motion of Metal Atoms in Endohedral Dimetallofullerenes

    Takeshi Akasaka;Shigeru Nagase;Kaoru Kobayashi;Markus Wälchli

  • Endohedral metal atoms in pristine and functionalized fullerene cages.

    Michio Yamada;Takeshi Akasaka;Shigeru Nagase

  • Redox properties of organofullerenes

    Toshiyasu Suzuki;Yusei Maruyama;Takeshi Akasaka;Wataru Ando

  • Structures and electronic states of M@C82 (M=Sc, Y, La and lanthanides)

    Kaoru Kobayashi;Shigeru Nagase

  • Synthesis and characterization of a stable dibismuthene : Evidence for a Bi-Bi double bond

    Norihiro Tokitoh;Yoshimitsu Arai;Yoshimitsu Arai;Renji Okazaki;Renji Okazaki;Shigeru Nagase;Shigeru Nagase

  • Structural Determination of Metallofullerene Sc3C82 Revisited: A Surprising Finding

    Yuko Iiduka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Tsukasa Nakahodo;Takahiro Tsuchiya

  • Chemistry of endohedral metallofullerenes: the role of metals

    Xing Lu;Takeshi Akasaka;Shigeru Nagase

  • La@C82 Anion. An Unusually Stable Metallofullerene

    Takeshi Akasaka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Shigeru Nagase;Kaoru Kobayashi

  • Reactivity of a Disilyne RSi≡SiR (R = SiiPr[CH(SiMe3)2]2) toward π-Bonds: Stereospecific Addition and a New Route to an Isolable 1,2-Disilabenzene

    Rei Kinjo;Masaaki Ichinohe;Akira Sekiguchi;Nozomi Takagi

  • Reaction of hydrogen or ammonia with unsaturated germanium or tin molecules under ambient conditions: oxidative addition versus arene elimination.

    Yang Peng;Jing-Dong Guo;Bobby D. Ellis;Zhongliang Zhu

  • Structural and electronic properties of metal-encapsulated silicon clusters in a large size range.

    Jing Lu;Shigeru Nagase

  • Giant magnetoresistance in silicene nanoribbons

    Chengyong Xu;Guangfu Luo;Qihang Liu;Jiaxin Zheng

  • La@C72 having a non-IPR carbon cage

    Takatsugu Wakahara;Hidefumi Nikawa;Takashi Kikuchi;Tsukasa Nakahodo

  • A Unique Crystalline-State Reaction of an Overcrowded Distibene with Molecular Oxygen: The First Example of a Single Crystal to a Single Crystal Reaction with an External Reagent

    Norihiro Tokitoh;Yoshimitsu Arai;Takahiro Sasamori;Renji Okazaki

  • Tunable and sizable band gap of single-layer graphene sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride

    Ruge Quhe;Jiaxin Zheng;Guangfu Luo;Qihang Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Akasaka
Takeshi Akasaka Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yutaka Maeda
Yutaka Maeda Tokyo Gakugei University
Takahiro Tsuchiya
Takahiro Tsuchiya Kitasato University
Naomi Mizorogi
Naomi Mizorogi University of Tsukuba
Takatsugu Wakahara
Takatsugu Wakahara National Institute for Materials Science
Jing Lu
Jing Lu Peking University
Xing Lu
Xing Lu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tatsuhisa Kato
Tatsuhisa Kato Kyoto University
Norihiro Tokitoh
Norihiro Tokitoh Kyoto University
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz University of Arizona

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