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Takanori Shibata

Takanori Shibata

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
16328
World Ranking
5900
National Ranking
370

Overview

Takanori Shibata is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work focuses significantly on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, with additional contributions to Inorganic Chemistry, Nephrology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main research topics covered by Shibata include:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Alkyne Reactions
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions

Shibata has published frequently in several venues, with the most notable being:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in Shibata's work include Mamoru Ito, Kyalo Stephen Kanyiva, Shun Nishibe, Hideaki Takano, and Natsumi Shiozawa.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Shibata are:

  • Ir-Catalyzed Enantioselective Formal C-H Conjugate Addition of Pyrrole and Indoles to α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds, 2021, Organic Letters
  • Enantioselective Cross-Coupling of Electron-Deficient Alkenes via Ir-Catalyzed Vinylic sp2 C-H Alkylation, 2021, Organic Letters
  • Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) via Regioselective C-C Bond Activation of Biphenylenes, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A cross-sectional analysis of clinicopathologic similarities and differences between Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis and IgA nephropathy, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Short-step synthesis and chiroptical properties of polyaza[5]-[9]helicenes with blue to green-colour emission, 2020, Chemical Communications

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric autocatalysis and amplification of enantiomeric excess of a chiral molecule

    Kenso Soai;Takanori Shibata;Hiroshi Morioka;Kaori Choji

  • Recent Advances in Iridium-Catalyzed Alkylation of C–H and N–H Bonds

    Shiguang Pan;Takanori Shibata

  • d- and l-Quartz-Promoted Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of a Chiral Organic Compound

    Kenso Soai;Shunji Osanai;Kousuke Kadowaki;Shigeru Yonekubo

  • Enantioselective Automultiplication of Chiral Molecules by Asymmetric Autocatalysis

    Kenso Soai;Takanori Shibata;Itaru Sato

  • Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions Catalyzed by a Triflic Acid Activated Chiral Oxazaborolidine

    E. J. Corey;Takanori Shibata;Thomas W. Lee

  • Asymmetric synthesis of pyrimidyl alkanol without adding chiral substances by the addition of diisopropylzinc to pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde in conjunction with asymmetric autocatalysis

    Kenso Soai;Itaru Sato;Takanori Shibata;Soichiro Komiya

  • Recent Advances in the Catalytic Pauson–Khand-Type Reaction

    Takanori Shibata

  • Ir(I)-catalyzed C-H bond alkylation of C2-position of indole with alkenes: selective synthesis of linear or branched 2-alkylindoles.

    Shiguang Pan;Naoto Ryu;Takanori Shibata

  • Recent advances in enantioselective [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition

    Takanori Shibata;Kyoji Tsuchikama

  • Asymmetric Induction by Helical Hydrocarbons: [6]‐ and [5]Helicenes

    Itaru Sato;Ryutaro Yamashima;Kousuke Kadowaki;Jun Yamamoto

  • Chemoselective and regiospecific suzuki coupling on a multisubstituted sp3-Carbon in 1,1-diborylalkanes at room temperature

    Kohei Endo;Takahiro Ohkubo;Munenao Hirokami;Takanori Shibata

  • Iridium complex-catalyzed highly enantio- and diastereoselective [2+2+2] cycloaddition for the synthesis of axially chiral teraryl compounds.

    Takanori Shibata;Takayoshi Fujimoto;Kazuhisa Yokota;Kentaro Takagi

  • Amplification of a Slight Enantiomeric Imbalance in Molecules Based on Asymmetric Autocatalysis: The First Correlation between High Enantiomeric Enrichment in a Chiral Molecule and Circularly Polarized Light

    Takanori Shibata;Jun Yamamoto;Naoko Matsumoto;Shigeru Yonekubo

  • Iridium‐Catalyzed Enantioselective CH Alkylation of Ferrocenes with Alkenes Using Chiral Diene Ligands

    Takanori Shibata;Tsubasa Shizuno

  • Facile Two-Step Synthesis of 1,10-Phenanthroline-Derived Polyaza[7]helicenes with High Fluorescence and CPL Efficiency

    Takashi Otani;Ami Tsuyuki;Taiki Iwachi;Satoshi Someya

  • Amplification of Chirality from Extremely Low to Greater than 99.5 % ee by Asymmetric Autocatalysis

    Itaru Sato;Hiroki Urabe;Saori Ishiguro;Takanori Shibata

  • Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Asymmetric Automultiplication of Chiral Pyrimidyl Alcohol

    Takanori Shibata;Hiroshi Morioka;Tadakatsu Hayase;Kaori Choji

  • Iridium−Chiral Diphosphine Complex Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Pauson-Khand-Type Reaction

    Takanori Shibata;Kentaro Takagi

  • Practically Perfect Asymmetric Autocatalysis with (2-Alkynyl-5-pyrimidyl)alkanols.

    Takanori Shibata;Shigeru Yonekubo;Kenso Soai

  • Ir(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Secondary sp3 C–H Bond Activation of 2-(Alkylamino)pyridines with Alkenes

    Shiguang Pan;Kohei Endo;Takanori Shibata

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenso Soai
Kenso Soai Tokyo University of Science
Yujiro Hayashi
Yujiro Hayashi Tohoku University
Yasushi Nishihara
Yasushi Nishihara Okayama University
Hiromi Nakai
Hiromi Nakai Waseda University
Yasuo Wakatsuki
Yasuo Wakatsuki Bridgestone (Japan)
E. J. Corey
E. J. Corey Harvard University
Kohei Tamao
Kohei Tamao Kyoto University

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