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Shun-Ichi Murahashi

Shun-Ichi Murahashi

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
21652
World Ranking
3440
National Ranking
200

Shun-Ichi Murahashi publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shun-Ichi Murahashi sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 429 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Shun-Ichi Murahashi D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shun-Ichi Murahashi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shun-Ichi Murahashi is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their research encompasses multiple aspects of chemistry, focusing particularly on organic and inorganic chemistry as well as materials chemistry.

The main fields of study for Murahashi include:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

The subfields of study within these areas cover:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

Murahashi's scholarly output includes a publication record in well-regarded scientific venues. A recent paper authored by Naruyoshi Komiya, with whom Murahashi frequently collaborates, is titled "Transition Metal-Catalyzed C−H Oxidation of Saturated Hydrocarbons with Molecular Oxygen". This paper was published in 2021 in The Chemical Record and has been cited 13 times.

Frequent coauthors for Murahashi consist of:

  • Naruyoshi Komiya

The venues in which Murahashi has published include:

  • The Chemical Record

The research topics covered by Murahashi center on oxidative processes involving organic molecules and catalytic mechanisms with metals. These include:

  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis.

    Takeshi Naota;Hikaru Takaya;Shun-Ichi Murahashi

  • Synthetic Aspects of Metal‐Catalyzed Oxidations of Amines and Related Reactions

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi

  • Aerobic Ruthenium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyanation of Tertiary Amines with Sodium Cyanide

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Naruyoshi Komiya;Hiroyuki Terai;Takahiro Nakae

  • Ruthenium catalyzed biomimetic oxidation in organic synthesis inspired by cytochrome P-450

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Dazhi Zhang;Dazhi Zhang

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with molecular oxygen or hydrogen peroxide and sodium cyanide: sp3 C-H bond activation and carbon-carbon bond formation.

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Takahiro Nakae;Hiroyuki Terai;Naruyoshi Komiya

  • Tungstate-catalyzed oxidation of secondary amines to nitrones. .alpha.-Substitution of secondary amines via nitrones

    Shunichi Murahashi;Hitoshi Mitsui;Tatsuki Shiota;Tomoyasu Tsuda

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative transformation of alcohols and aldehydes to esters and lactones

    Shunichi Murahashi;Takeshi Naota;Keiichiro Ito;Yoshihiro Maeda

  • Stereoselective synthesis of alkenes and alkenyl sulfides from alkenyl halides using palladium and ruthenium catalysts

    Shunichi Murahashi;Masaaki Yamamura;Kenichi Yanagisawa;Nobuaki Mita

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with hydrogen peroxide and sodium cyanide.

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Naruyoshi Komiya;Hiroyuki Terai

  • Synthesis and Transformations of Nitrones for Organic Synthesis

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Yasushi Imada

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed cytochrome P-450 type oxidation of tertiary amines with alkyl hydroperoxides

    Shunichi. Murahashi;Takeshi. Naota;Koichi. Yonemura

  • Copper(I)-Catalyzed Amination of Propargyl Esters. Selective Synthesis of Propargylamines, 1-Alken-3-ylamines, and (Z)-Allylamines

    Yasushi Imada;Mari Yuasa;Ishin Nakamura;Shun-Ichi Murahashi

  • Flavin Catalyzed Oxidations of Sulfides and Amines with Molecular Oxygen

    Yasushi Imada;Hiroki Iida;Satoshi Ono;Shun-Ichi Murahashi

  • New aspects of oxypalladation of alkenes

    Takahiro Hosokawa;Shunichi Murahashi

  • The reaction of σ-vinylpalladium complexes with alkyllithiums. Stereospecific syntheses of olefins from vinyl halides and alkyllithiums

    Masaaki Yamamura;Ichiro Moritani;Shun-Ichi Murahashi

  • Low-valent ruthenium and iridium hydride complexes as alternatives to Lewis acid and base catalysts.

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Hikaru Takaya

  • Asymmetric baeyer-villiger reaction with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by a novel planar-chiral bisflavin.

    Shun-Ichi Murahashi;Satoshi Ono;Yasushi Imada

  • Palladium(0)-catalyzed azidation of allyl esters. Selective synthesis of allyl azides, primary allylamines, and related compounds

    Shunichi Murahashi;Yuki Taniguchi;Yasushi Imada;Yoshio Tanigawa

  • Catalytic alkyl group exchange reaction of primary and secondary amines

    Shunichi Murahashi;Noriaki Yoshimura;Tatsuo Tsumiyama;Takeyuki Kojima

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidation of amides and lactams with peroxides

    Shunichi Murahashi;Takeshi Naota;Toshiyuki Kuwabara;Takao Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Naota
Takeshi Naota Osaka University
Yoshinori Yamamoto
Yoshinori Yamamoto Tohoku University
Kazuhiro Maruyama
Kazuhiro Maruyama Kyoto University
Robert H. Grubbs
Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology
Yong Guo
Yong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow Columbia University
Kunio Miki
Kunio Miki Kyoto University
Ji-Chang Xiao
Ji-Chang Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yasushi Kai
Yasushi Kai Osaka University
Hisao Ohtake
Hisao Ohtake Osaka University

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