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Shuichi Nakamura is affiliated with Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research expertise lies primarily within the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a notable focus on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. The subfields of Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmaceutical Science also feature in their body of work.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography. Additional areas explored include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Radical Photochemical Reactions, and Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods.

Shuichi Nakamura has published research in several academic venues, with frequent publications in Organic Letters and The Cambridge Structural Database, each hosting 11 of their works. Other common venues include Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (7 publications), Chemical Communications (3 publications), and ACS Catalysis (2 publications).

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors, including Tsunayoshi Takehara and Takeyuki Suzuki, both with 26 coauthored works, Naoki Yasukawa with 11, Yusuke Oyamada with 7, and Kazuki Fujita with 6 coauthored papers.

Recent publications by Shuichi Nakamura demonstrate a specialized interest in enantioselective catalytic processes. Selected recent papers include:

  • Enantioselective Pictet-Spengler Reaction of Acyclic α-Ketoesters Using Chiral Imidazoline-Phosphoric Acid Catalysts, 2022, Organic Letters
  • Enantioselective Vinylogous Mannich Reaction of Acyclic Vinylketene Silyl Acetals with Ketimines Using Chiral Bis(imidazoline)-Cu(II) Catalysts, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Enantiodivergent Reaction of Ketimines with Malononitriles Using Single Cinchona Alkaloid Sulfonamide Catalysts, 2021, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Enantioselective Reaction of 2H-Azirines with Oxazol-5-(4H)-ones Catalyzed by Cinchona Alkaloid Sulfonamide Catalysts, 2021, Organic Letters
  • Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of N,N-Acetals from α-Dicarbonyl Compounds Using Chiral Imidazoline-Phosphoric Acid Catalysts, 2020, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Cinchona Alkaloid Catalyzed Enantioselective Fluorination of Allyl Silanes, Silyl Enol Ethers, and Oxindoles

    Takehisa Ishimaru;Norio Shibata;Takao Horikawa;Naomi Yasuda

  • Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Fluorination and Chlorination Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds Capable of Two‐Point Binding

    Norio Shibata;Junji Kohno;Kazumi Takai;Takehisa Ishimaru

  • Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydroxylation Reactions of Oxindoles and β-Keto Esters Using DBFOX Ligand

    Takehisa Ishimaru;Norio Shibata;Jun Nagai;Shuichi Nakamura

  • Fluorinated Johnson Reagent for Transfer-Trifluoromethylation to Carbon Nucleophiles

    Shun Noritake;Norio Shibata;Shuichi Nakamura;Takeshi Toru

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of AG‐041R by using N‐Heteroarenesulfonyl Cinchona Alkaloid Amides as Organocatalysts

    Noriyuki Hara;Shuichi Nakamura;Masahide Sano;Ryota Tamura

  • Cinchona-alkaloid-catalyzed enantioselective direct aldol-type reaction of oxindoles with ethyl trifluoropyruvate.

    Shinichi Ogawa;Norio Shibata;Junji Inagaki;Shuichi Nakamura

  • Fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane: a fluoromethide equivalent and palladium-catalyzed enantioselective allylic monofluoromethylation.

    Takeo Fukuzumi;Norio Shibata;Masayoshi Sugiura;Hiroyuki Yasui

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation of Azomethine Imines with Trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)silane

    Hiroyuki Kawai;Akihiro Kusuda;Shuichi Nakamura;Motoo Shiro

  • Cinchona Alkaloid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Monofluoromethylation Reaction Based on Fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane Chemistry Combined with a Mannich-type Reaction

    Satoshi Mizuta;Norio Shibata;Yosuke Goto;Tatsuya Furukawa

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Trifluoromethyl‐Substituted 2‐Isoxazolines: Asymmetric Hydroxylamine/Enone Cascade Reaction

    Kazutaka Matoba;Hiroyuki Kawai;Tatsuya Furukawa;Akihiro Kusuda

  • DNA-Mediated Enantioselective Carbon-Fluorine Bond Formation

    Norio Shibata;Hiroyuki Yasui;Shuichi Nakamura;Takeshi Toru

  • Enantioselective Reactions of Configurationally Unstable α‐Thiobenzyllithium Compounds

    Shuichi Nakamura;Ryo Nakagawa;Yoshihiko Watanabe;Takeshi Toru

  • New approaches to enantioselective fluorination: Cinchona alkaloids combinations and chiral ligands/metal complexes

    Norio Shibata;Takehisa Ishimaru;Shuichi Nakamura;Takeshi Toru

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of (R)‐Convolutamydine A with New N‐Heteroarylsulfonylprolinamides

    Shuichi Nakamura;Noriyuki Hara;Hiroki Nakashima;Koji Kubo

  • Catalytic enantioselective decarboxylative reactions using organocatalysts.

    Shuichi Nakamura

  • Cinchona alkaloids/TMAF combination-catalyzed nucleophilic enantioselective trifluoromethylation of aryl ketones.

    Satoshi Mizuta;Norio Shibata;Surendar Akiti;Hiroyuki Fujimoto

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Michael Addition of 1‐Fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane to α,β‐Unsaturated Ketones Catalyzed by Cinchona Alkaloids

    Tatsuya Furukawa;Norio Shibata;Satoshi Mizuta;Shuichi Nakamura

  • Desymmetrization-like catalytic enantioselective fluorination of malonates and its application to pharmaceutically attractive molecules.

    Dhande Sudhakar Reddy;Norio Shibata;Jun Nagai;Shuichi Nakamura

  • Efficient Access to Extended Yagupolskii–Umemoto‐Type Reagents: Triflic Acid Catalyzed Intramolecular Cyclization of ortho‐Ethynylaryltrifluoromethylsulfanes

    Andrej Matsnev;Shun Noritake;Yoshinori Nomura;Etsuko Tokunaga

  • Organocatalytic Enantioselective Decarboxylative Addition of Malonic Acids Half Thioesters to Isatins

    Noriyuki Hara;Shuichi Nakamura;Yasuhiro Funahashi;Norio Shibata

Frequent Co-Authors

Norio Shibata
Norio Shibata Nagoya Institute of Technology
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Hideki Masuda
Hideki Masuda Nagoya Institute of Technology
Tetsuo Soga
Tetsuo Soga Nagoya Institute of Technology
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Hideaki Hara
Hideaki Hara Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Dominique Cahard
Dominique Cahard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Masaaki Haneda
Masaaki Haneda Nagoya Institute of Technology
Klaus Bergander
Klaus Bergander University of Münster

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