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Shinobu Takizawa

Shinobu Takizawa

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44
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6396
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16943
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1335

Overview

Shinobu Takizawa is a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan, with a significant body of work in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research primarily focuses on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, covering specialized areas such as Spectroscopy, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientific contributions of Takizawa include several research topics, notably:

  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemical Communications, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Molecules, and Organic Chemistry Frontiers.

Takizawa has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Hiroaki Sasai
  • Mohamed S. H. Salem
  • Masaru Kondo
  • Makoto Sako
  • Md. Imrul Khalid

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Takizawa include:

  • "Atroposelective Synthesis of C-C Axially Chiral Compounds via Mono- and Dinuclear Vanadium Catalysis" (2022), published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Remodelling molecular frameworks via atom-level surgery: recent advances in skeletal editing of (hetero)cycles" (2025), published in Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Photoswitchable Chiral Phase Transfer Catalyst" (2021), published in ACS Catalysis
  • "Bayesian optimization with constraint on passed charge for multiparameter screening of electrochemical reductive carboxylation in a flow microreactor" (2022), published in Chemical Communications
  • "Energy-, time-, and labor-saving synthesis of α-ketiminophosphonates: machine-learning-assisted simultaneous multiparameter screening for electrochemical oxidation" (2021), published in Green Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Bifunctional organocatalysts for enantioselective aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction.

    Katsuya Matsui;Shinobu Takizawa;Hiroaki Sasai

  • Efficient oxidative biaryl coupling reaction of phenol ether derivatives using hypervalent iodine(III) reagents

    Hirofumi Tohma;Hironori Morioka;Shinobu Takizawa;Mitsuhiro Arisawa

  • Facile and Clean Oxidation of Alcohols in Water Using Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents

    Hirofumi Tohma;Shinobu Takizawa;Tomohiro Maegawa;Yasuyuki Kita

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Alkylidene-γ-Butyrolactones: Intramolecular Rauhut–Currier Reaction Promoted by Acid/Base Organocatalysts

    Shinobu Takizawa;Tue Minh-Nhat Nguyen;André Grossmann;Dieter Enders

  • Hypervalent Iodine(V)-Induced Asymmetric Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides Mediated by Reversed Micelles: Novel Nonmetallic Catalytic System.

    Hirofumi Tohma;Shinobu Takizawa;Hiroaki Watanabe;Yuko Fukuoka

  • Dinuclear chiral vanadium catalysts for oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols via a dual activation mechanism.

    Shinobu Takizawa;Tomomi Katayama;Hiroaki Sasai

  • Total Synthesis of Chloropeptin II (Complestatin) and Chloropeptin I

    Joie Garfunkle;F. Scott Kimball;John D. Trzupek;Shinobu Takizawa

  • Metal‐Bridged Polymers as Insoluble Multicomponent Asymmetric Catalysts with High Enantiocontrol: An Approach for the Immobilization of Catalysts without Using any Support

    Shinobu Takizawa;Hidenori Somei;Doss Jayaprakash;Hiroaki Sasai

  • Dual activation in a homolytic coupling reaction promoted by an enantioselective dinuclear vanadium(IV) catalyst

    Hidenori Somei;Yasuaki Asano;Tomokazu Yoshida;Shinobu Takizawa

  • Facile and Clean Oxidation of Alcohols in Water Using Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents

    Hirofumi Tohma;Tomohiro Maegawa;Shinobu Takizawa;Yasuyuki Kita

  • Efficient Enantioselective Synthesis of Oxahelicenes Using Redox/Acid Cooperative Catalysts

    Makoto Sako;Yoshiki Takeuchi;Tetsuya Tsujihara;Junpei Kodera

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Isoindolines: An Organocatalyzed Domino Process Based On the aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction**

    Shinobu Takizawa;Naohito Inoue;Shuichi Hirata;Hiroaki Sasai

  • Development of chiral spiro ligands for metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions

    Gan B. Bajracharya;Midori A. Arai;Priti S. Koranne;Takeyuki Suzuki

  • Aerobic oxidation of α-hydroxycarbonyls catalysed by trichlorooxyvanadium: efficient synthesis of α-dicarbonyl compounds

    Masayuki Kirihara;Yuta Ochiai;Shinobu Takizawa;Hiroki Takahata

  • Conformational lock in a Brønsted acid–Lewis base organocatalyst for the aza-Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction

    Katsuya Matsui;Kouichi Tanaka;Atsushi Horii;Shinobu Takizawa

  • Hypervalent iodine(III) oxidation catalyzed by quaternary ammonium salt in micellar systems

    Hirofumi Tohma;Shinobu Takizawa;Hiroaki Watanabe;Yasuyuki Kita

  • Phosphine-Catalyzed β,γ-Umpolung Domino Reaction of Allenic Esters: Facile Synthesis of Tetrahydrobenzofuranones Bearing a Chiral Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Carbon Center

    Shinobu Takizawa;Kenta Kishi;Yasushi Yoshida;Steffen Mader

  • Enantioselective intramolecular oxidative aminocarbonylation of alkenylureas catalyzed by palladium-spiro bis(isoxazoline) complexes.

    Tetsuya Tsujihara;Toshio Shinohara;Kazuhiro Takenaka;Shinobu Takizawa

  • Enantioselective Cyclization of 4-Alkenoic Acids via an Oxidative Allylic C–H Esterification

    Kazuhiro Takenaka;Mitsutoshi Akita;Yugo Tanigaki;Shinobu Takizawa

  • A Brønsted Acid and Lewis Base Organocatalyst for the Aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

    Katsuya Matsui;Shinobu Takizawa;Hiroaki Sasai

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroaki Sasai
Hiroaki Sasai Osaka University
Yasuyuki Kita
Yasuyuki Kita Ritsumeikan University
Takayoshi Arai
Takayoshi Arai Chiba University
Tomohiro Maegawa
Tomohiro Maegawa Kindai University
Harald Gröger
Harald Gröger Bielefeld University
Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo
Magnus Rueping
Magnus Rueping King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Dale L. Boger
Dale L. Boger Scripps Research Institute
Takeshi Yanagida
Takeshi Yanagida University of Tokyo

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