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Shigeru Shimada is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans key areas within materials science and chemistry, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. Their work also covers inorganic chemistry, polymers and plastics, and ocean engineering as subfields of study.

The research topics Shigeru Shimada has engaged with include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics

Their body of work includes publications in various venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Communications
  • Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • ACS Omega
  • Dalton Transactions

Shigeru Shimada has several recent papers, including:

  • Oxidative addition of Bi-C bonds to Pt(0): reaction of Pt(PEt3)3 with cyclic organobismuth compounds, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Synthesis, structure and properties of trivalent and pentavalent tricarbabismatranes, 2022, Chemical Communications
  • Oxidative Addition of Water to Ir(I) Complexes Bearing a Pincer-Type Silyl Ligand, 2022, ACS Omega
  • Robust Organic Photosensitizers Immobilized on a Vinylimidazolium Functionalized Support for Singlet Oxygen Generation under Continuous-Flow Conditions, 2020, Synlett
  • Continuous-flow Diels-Alder Reactions of Unactivated Dienes over Zeolitic Catalysts, 2022, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators with Shigeru Shimada include the following researchers:

  • Shuang-Feng Yin
  • Kazuhiko Sato
  • Ming Bao
  • Yoong-Kee Choe
  • Koichiro Masuda

Best Publications

  • Hydrosilylation reaction of olefins: recent advances and perspectives

    Y. Nakajima;S. Shimada

  • Formation of Aryl‐ and Benzylboronate Esters by Rhodium‐Catalyzed C−H Bond Functionalization with Pinacolborane

    Shigeru Shimada;Andrei S. Batsanov;Judith A. K. Howard;Todd B. Marder

  • Efficient and selective nickel-catalyzed addition of H-P(O) and H-S bonds to alkynes.

    Li-Biao Han;Chen Zhang;Hideaki Yazawa;Shigeru Shimada

  • Mixed-acid systems for the catalytic synthesis of methyl levulinate from cellulose

    Ken-ichi Tominaga;Atsushi Mori;Yuriko Fukushima;Shigeru Shimada

  • Efficient Pd-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Coupling of P(O)H with RSH: A Precise Construction of P(O)-S Bonds.

    Yueyue Zhu;Tieqiao Chen;Shan Li;Shigeru Shimada

  • Efficient Fixation of Carbon Dioxide by Hypervalent Organobismuth Oxide, Hydroxide, and Alkoxide

    Shuang-Feng Yin;Junpei Maruyama;Takashi Yamashita;Shigeru Shimada

  • Accurate molecular structures of 16-electron rhodium hydrido boryl complexes: Low-temperature single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction and computational studies of [(PR3)2RhHCl(boryl)] (boryl = Bpin, Bcat)

    Wai Han Lam;Shigeru Shimada;Andrei S. Batsanov;Zhenyang Lin

  • Theoretical study of reaction pathways for the rhodium phosphine-catalysed borylation of C–H bonds with pinacolborane

    Wai Han Lam;King Chung Lam;Zhenyang Lin;Shigeru Shimada;Shigeru Shimada

  • Unusual Reactivity of 1,2-Disilylbenzene toward Pt(0) Complexes. Isolation of the First PtIVSi4P2 and Dinuclear, Mixed-Valence PtIIPtIVSi4P4 Complexes

    Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka;Kazumasa Honda

  • Synthesis and structure of bismuth compounds bearing a sulfur-bridged bis(phenolato) ligand and their catalytic application to the solvent-free synthesis of propylene carbonate from CO2 and propylene oxide

    Shuang-Feng Yin;Shigeru Shimada

  • Synthesis and Structure of Formally Hexavalent Palladium Complexes

    Wanzhi Chen;Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka

  • Transient 2D IR Correlation Spectroscopy of the Photopolymerization of Acrylic and Epoxy Monomers

    Tatsuhiko Nakano;Shigeru Shimada;Rieko Saitoh;Isao Noda

  • Synthesis of 1-tetralones by intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction of 4-arylbutyric acids using Lewis acid catalysts

    Dong-Mei Cui;Masato Kawamura;Shigeru Shimada;Teruyuki Hayashi

  • Group 10 transition-metal complexes with metal-silicon bonds derived from 1,2-disilylbenzenes and bis(2-silylphenyl)silane

    Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka

  • Ring-opening aldol-type reaction of 2,2-dialkoxycyclopropanecarboxylic esters with carbonyl compounds. 3. The diastereoselective synthesis of 2,3,4-trisubstituted .gamma.-lactones

    Shigeru Shimada;Yukihiko Hashimoto;Kazuhiko Saigo

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Cis Double Phosphorylation of Alkynes with H-Phosphonate Leading to (Z)-Bisphosphoryl-1-alkenes

    Li-Biao Han;Yutaka Ono;Shigeru Shimada

  • (Salicylaldiminato)Ni(II)-catalysts for hydrosilylation of olefins

    Venu Srinivas;Yumiko Nakajima;Wataru Ando;Kazuhiko Sato

  • Organocatalytic controlled/living ring-opening polymerization of cyclotrisiloxanes initiated by water with strong organic base catalysts

    Keita Fuchise;Masayasu Igarashi;Kazuhiko Sato;Shigeru Shimada

  • 5,6,7,12-tetrahydrodibenz[c,f][1,5]azabismocines: highly reactive and recoverable organobismuth reagents for cross-coupling reactions with aryl bromides.

    Shigeru Shimada;Osamu Yamazaki;Toshifumi Tanaka;Maddali L. N. Rao

  • Bis(acetylacetonato)Ni(II)/NaBHEt3-catalyzed hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes, alkenes and alkynes

    Venu Srinivas;Yumiko Nakajima;Wataru Ando;Kazuhiko Sato

  • Reaction of [2-(SiH3)C6H4]2SiH2 with Ni(Et2PCH2CH2PEt2)(PEt3)2: Characterization of η2-(Si−H)Ni and NiIV−H Complexes

    Wanzhi Chen;Shigeru Shimada;Masato Tanaka;Yuka Kobayashi

  • Dinuclear Palladacyclic Complexes Derived from C−N Cleavage of an Imidazolium Salt: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Their Uses for C−C Coupling

    Jiansheng Ye;Xiaoming Zhang;Wanzhi Chen;Shigeru Shimada

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Hydridoiridium Complexes Bearing a Pincer‐Type PSiP Ligand

    Hongyun Fang;Yoong-Kee Choe;Yonghua Li;Yonghua Li;Shigeru Shimada

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhiko Sato
Kazuhiko Sato National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masato Tanaka
Masato Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Li-Biao Han
Li-Biao Han National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Wanzhi Chen
Wanzhi Chen Zhejiang University
Shuang-Feng Yin
Shuang-Feng Yin Hunan University
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Wai-Yeung Wong
Wai-Yeung Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Todd B. Marder
Todd B. Marder University of Würzburg
Wen-Yong Lai
Wen-Yong Lai Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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