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Shinichi Itsuno is affiliated with Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research focuses primarily on organic chemistry, materials chemistry, and related interdisciplinary areas.

The scientist has authored numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Chitosan-supported cinchona urea: Sustainable organocatalyst for asymmetric Michael reaction, 2020, Catalysis Communications
  • Polymer-Supported Chiral Cis-Disubstituted Pyrrolidine Catalysts and Their Application to Batch and Continuous-Flow Systems, 2020, Organic Process Research & Development
  • Thermal and morphological characterization of biowaste date palm fiber-reinforced polybenzoxazine and epoxy composites, 2023, Polymer Composites
  • Design and synthesis of cinchona-based chiral hyperbranched polymers and their application in asymmetric reactions, 2020, Tetrahedron
  • Synthesis of cinchona squaramide polymers by Yamamoto coupling polymerization and their application in asymmetric Michael reaction, 2021, Reactive and Functional Polymers

Their frequent co-authors reflect ongoing collaborations and include Mahmoud A. Abdelkawy, El-Saied A. Aly, Mahmoud A. El-Badawi, Naoki Haraguchi, and Ikuhide Fujisawa.

The scientist has published multiple works in various venues, with a concentration in:

  • ChemistrySelect
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Catalysis Communications
  • Organic Process Research & Development
  • Polymer Composites

Shinichi Itsuno's research spans main fields of study such as:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Subfields of their work cover:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Mechanical Engineering

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites

Best Publications

  • Poly(ethylene oxide) macromonomers. 7. Micellar polymerization in water

    Koichi Ito;Kazuo Tanaka;Hiroshige Tanaka;Genji Imai

  • Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with chiral alkoxy-amineborane complexes

    Akira Hirao;Shinichi Itsuno;Seiichi Nakahama;Noboru Yamazaki

  • New solid-phase catalysts for asymmetric synthesis: cross-linked polymers containing a chiral Schiff base-zinc complex

    Shinichi Itsuno;Yoshiki Sakurai;Koichi Ito;Toshihiro Maruyama

  • Asymmetric synthesis using chirally modified borohydrides. Part 3. Enantioselective reduction of ketones and oxime ethers with reagents prepared from borane and chiral amino alcohols

    Shinichi Itsuno;Michio Nakano;Koji Miyazaki;Hirofumi Masuda

  • Catalytic Behavior of Optically Active Amino Alcohol–Borane Complex in the Enantioselective Reduction of Acetophenone Oxime O-Alkyl Ethers

    Shinichi Itsuno;Yoshiki Sakurai;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao

  • Polymer-supported poly(amino acids) as new asymmetric epoxidation catalyst of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated ketones

    Shinichi Itsuno;Minako Sakakura;Koichi Ito

  • Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(–)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane

    Shinichi Itsuno;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  • Spherulite growth of l-lactide copolymers: Effects of tacticity and comonomers

    Hideto Tsuji;Yasufumi Tezuka;Swapan Kumar Saha;Masakazu Suzuki

  • Enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes catalyzed by polymer-supported chiral amino alcohols. Evidence for a two zinc species mechanism

    Shinichi Itsuno;Jean M. J. Frechet

  • Asymmetric reduction of aliphatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(−)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane

    Shinichi Itsuno;Koichi Ito;Akira Hirao;Seiichi Nakahama

  • Part 7. Effects of poly(L-lactide-co-ϵ-caprolactone) on morphology, structure, crystallization, and physical properties of blends of poly(L-lactide) and poly(ϵ-caprolactone)

    Hideto Tsuji;Tamami Yamada;Masakazu Suzuki;Shinichi Itsuno

  • Asymmetric Diels−Alder Reaction of Methacrolein with Cyclopentadiene Using Polymer-Supported Catalysts: Design of Highly Enantioselective Polymeric Catalysts

    Koichi Kamahori;Koichi Ito;Shinichi Itsuno

  • Chiral polymer synthesis by means of repeated asymmetric reaction

    Shinichi Itsuno

  • Polymer-immobilized chiral catalysts

    Shinichi Itsuno;Md. Mehadi Hassan

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Homoallylamines by Nucleophilic Addition of Chirally Modified Allylboron Reagents to Imines

    Shinichi Itsuno;Katsuhiro Watanabe;Koichi Ito;Ashraf A. El-Shehawy

  • Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of imines catalyzed by a polymer-immobilized chiral catalyst.

    Naoki Haraguchi;Keiichi Tsuru;Yukihiro Arakawa;Shinichi Itsuno

  • Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones in Water using a Polymer‐Supported Chiral Catalyst Containing a Hydrophilic Pendant Group

    Yukihiro Arakawa;Atsuko Chiba;Naoki Haraguchi;Shinichi Itsuno

  • Asymmetric reduction of aliphatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(−)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane

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  • Design of novel polymer-supported chiral catalyst for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation in water

    Yukihiro Arakawa;Naoki Haraguchi;Shinichi Itsuno

  • An Immobilization Method of Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts onto Polymer Supports

    Yukihiro Arakawa;Naoki Haraguchi;Shinichi Itsuno

  • Poly(ethylene oxide) macromonomers. 8. Preparation and polymerization of ι-hydroxypoly(ethylene oxide) macromonomers

    Koichi Ito;Kazuo Hashimura;Shinichi Itsuno;Eiichi Yamada

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Hirao
Akira Hirao National Taiwan University
Seiichi Nakahama
Seiichi Nakahama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hideto Tsuji
Hideto Tsuji Toyohashi University of Technology
Mitsuo Niinomi
Mitsuo Niinomi Tohoku University
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet University of California, Berkeley
Kazuo Tanaka
Kazuo Tanaka Kyoto University
Masato Tanaka
Masato Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Keiji Maruoka
Keiji Maruoka Kyoto University
Imre Pápai
Imre Pápai Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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