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Susumu Saito

Susumu Saito

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Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
7049
World Ranking
17205
National Ranking
1358

Overview

Susumu Saito is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of chemistry, materials science, and energy. Their work covers a broad range of topics with a particular focus on materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, and organic and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's main research focuses include:

  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Radical photochemical reactions
  • 2D materials and applications

Saito has published significant papers such as:

  • Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using a Robust Multifunctional Iridium Complex toward the Selective Formation of Formic Acid, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Carbon annealed HPHT-hexagonal boron nitride: Exploring defect levels using 2D materials combined through van der Waals interface, 2020, Carbon
  • Arylamines as More Strongly Reducing Organic Photoredox Catalysts than fac-[Ir(ppy)3], 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • Sustainable organic synthesis promoted on titanium dioxide using coordinated water and renewable energies/resources, 2022, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Crystalline boron monosulfide nanosheets with tunable bandgaps, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Saito include:

  • Jieun Jung
  • Taku Wakabayashi
  • Keita Sekizawa
  • Shunsuke Sato
  • Takeshi Morikawa

The scientist has published in prominent venues such as:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Saito's research contribution spans 36 publications each in chemistry and materials science and 33 in energy. Subfields of study include materials chemistry with 35 publications, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment with 33, organic chemistry with 25, process chemistry and technology with 15, and inorganic chemistry with 11 publications.

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric Direct Aldol Reaction Assisted by Water and a Proline‐Derived Tetrazole Catalyst

    Hiromi Torii;Masakazu Nakadai;Kazuaki Ishihara;Susumu Saito

  • Design of acid-base catalysis for the asymmetric direct Aldol reaction.

    Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Chiral calcium complexes as brønsted base catalysts for asymmetric addition of α-amino acid derivatives to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds

    Susumu Saito;Tetsu Tsubogo;Shu Kobayashi

  • Diversity-based strategy for discovery of environmentally benign organocatalyst: diamine-protonic acid catalysts for asymmetric direct aldol reaction

    Masakazu Nakadai;Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Iron/amino acid catalyzed direct N-alkylation of amines with alcohols.

    Yingsheng Zhao;Siong Wan Foo;Susumu Saito

  • RhI‐Catalyzed Hydration of Organonitriles under Ambient Conditions

    Akihiro Goto;Kohei Endo;Kohei Endo;Susumu Saito

  • O-nitroso aldol synthesis: Catalytic enantioselective route to α-aminooxy carbonyl compounds via enamine intermediate

    Norie Momiyama;Hiromi Torii;Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Highly anti-Selective Catalytic Aldol Reactions of Amides with Aldehydes

    S. Saito;S. Kobayashi

  • Chiral hetero Diels-Alder products by enantioselective and diastereoselective zirconium catalysis. Scope, limitation, mechanism, and application to the concise synthesis of (+)-Prelactone C and (+)-9-deoxygoniopypyrone.

    Yasuhiro Yamashita;Susumu Saito;Haruro Ishitani;Shū Kobayashi

  • Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using a Robust Multifunctional Iridium Complex toward the Selective Formation of Formic Acid.

    Kenji Kamada;Jieun Jung;Taku Wakabayashi;Keita Sekizawa

  • Cross-coupling reaction of alcohols for carbon-carbon bond formation using pincer-type NHC/palladium catalysts.

    Osamu Kose;Susumu Saito

  • N-methylation of amines with methanol at room temperature.

    Vasily N. Tsarev;Yuna Morioka;Joaquim Caner;Qing Wang

  • Conceptually New Directed Aldol Condensation Using Aluminum Tris(2,6-diphenylphenoxide)

    Susumu Saito;Masahito Shiozawa;Masahiro Ito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • The dual role of ruthenium and alkali base catalysts in enabling a conceptually new shortcut to N-unsubstituted pyrroles through unmasked α-amino aldehydes.

    Kazuki Iida;Takashi Miura;Junki Ando;Susumu Saito

  • MOLECULAR DESIGN OF A CHIRAL LEWIS ACID FOR THE ASYMMETRIC CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT

    Keiji Maruoka;Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Virtually Complete Blocking of .alpha.,.beta.-Unsaturated Aldehyde Carbonyls by Complexation with Aluminum Tris(2,6-diphenylphenoxide)

    Keiji Maruoka;Hiroshi Imoto;Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Calcium-Catalyzed Diastereo- and Enantioselective 1,4-Addition of Glycine Derivatives to α,β-Unsaturated Esters

    Shū Kobayashi;Tetsu Tsubogo;Susumu Saito;Yasuhiro Yamashita

  • Diamine-Protonic Acid Catalysts for Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Reaction

    Susumu Saito;Masakazu Nakadai;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • DESIGNER LEWIS ACID CATALYSTS-BULKY ALUMINIUM REAGENTS FOR SELECTIVE ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

    Susumu Saito;Hisashi Yamamoto

  • Diboron-Catalyzed Dehydrative Amidation of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids with Amines.

    Dinesh N Sawant;Dattatraya B Bagal;Saeko Ogawa;Kaliyamoorthy Selvam

  • Catalytic hydrogenation of unactivated amides enabled by hydrogenation of catalyst precursor

    Takashi Miura;Ingmar E. Held;Shunsuke Oishi;Masayuki Naruto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hisashi Yamamoto
Hisashi Yamamoto Chubu University
Keiji Maruoka
Keiji Maruoka Kyoto University
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University
Kazuaki Ishihara
Kazuaki Ishihara Nagoya University
Takashi Ooi
Takashi Ooi Nagoya University
Akihiko Kudo
Akihiko Kudo Tokyo University of Science
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Constantin G. Daniliuc
Constantin G. Daniliuc University of Münster
Gerald Kehr
Gerald Kehr University of Münster

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