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Takashi Ohshima

Takashi Ohshima

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Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
12143
World Ranking
5722
National Ranking
352

Overview

Takashi Ohshima is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan. Their research spans primarily the fields of chemistry and medicine, with a strong concentration on organic chemistry and molecular biology among other subfields. The scientist's work also covers inorganic chemistry, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The research topics Ohshima focuses on include asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, chemical synthesis and analysis, synthesis and catalytic reactions, gastric cancer management and outcomes, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, as well as oxidative organic chemistry reactions.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ohshima include:

  • Amino Acid Schiff Base Bearing Benzophenone Imine As a Platform for Highly Congested Unnatural α-Amino Acid Synthesis, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Recent Progress on Catalytic Addition Reactions to N-Unsubstituted Imines, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Defined lifestyle and germline factors predispose Asian populations to gastric cancer, 2020, Science Advances
  • Chemoselective Catalytic α-Oxidation of Carboxylic Acids: Iron/Alkali Metal Cooperative Redox Active Catalysis, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Multiancestry genomic and transcriptomic analysis of gastric cancer, 2023, Nature Genetics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ohshima include Hiroyuki Morimoto, Ryo Yazaki, Yuta Kondo, Yasushi Rino, and Akiyoshi Ogimoto. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships within their research areas.

Ohshima's work has been published across various scientific journals and proceedings, often appearing in:

  • Organic Letters
  • The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Nature Synthesis

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric Heck Reaction

    Masakatsu Shibasaki;Erasmus M. Vogl;Takashi Ohshima

  • Asymmetric alkynylation of aldehydes catalyzed by an In(III)/BINOL complex.

    Ryo Takita;Kenichiro Yakura;Takashi Ohshima;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Yeast KEX2 gene encodes an endopeptidase homologous to subtilisin-like serine proteases

    Kensaku Mizuno;Tomoko Nakamura;Takehiro Ohshima;Shoji Tanaka

  • Direct catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction: Synthesis of either syn-or anti-α,β-dihydroxy ketones

    Naoki Yoshikawa;Naoya Kumagai;Shigeki Matsunaga;Guido Moll

  • Platinum-catalyzed direct amination of allylic alcohols under mild conditions: ligand and microwave effects, substrate scope, and mechanistic study.

    Takashi Ohshima;Yoshiki Miyamoto;Junji Ipposhi;Yasuhito Nakahara

  • Stable, Storable, and Reusable Asymmetric Catalyst: A Novel La-linked-BINOL Complex for the Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reaction

    Yun Sik Kim;Shigeki Matsunaga;Jagattaran Das;Akihiro Sekine

  • SOLID AND SOLUTION PHASE SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF COMBINATORIAL SARCODICTYIN LIBRARIES

    K. C. Nicolaou;Nicolas Charles Winssinger;D. Vourloumis;T. Ohshima

  • Enantio‐ and Diastereoselective Catalytic Mannich‐Type Reaction of a Glycine Schiff Base Using a Chiral Two‐Center Phase‐Transfer Catalyst

    Akihiro Okada;Tomoyuki Shibuguchi;Takashi Ohshima;Hyuma Masu

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Enones Using La−BINOL−Triphenylarsine Oxide Complex: Structural Determination of the Asymmetric Catalyst

    Tetsuhiro Nemoto;Takashi Ohshima;Kentaro Yamaguchi;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Development of new asymmetric two-center catalysts in phase-transfer reactions

    Tomoyuki Shibuguchi;Yuhei Fukuta;Yoko Akachi;Akihiro Sekine

  • Enzyme-like chemoselective acylation of alcohols in the presence of amines catalyzed by a tetranuclear zinc cluster.

    Takashi Ohshima;Takanori Iwasaki;Yusuke Maegawa;and Asako Yoshiyama

  • Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Strychnine Using the Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reaction and Tandem Cyclization

    Takashi Ohshima;Youjun Xu;Ryo Takita;Satoshi Shimizu

  • Asymmetric Heck Reaction−Carbanion Capture Process. Catalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Δ9(12)-Capnellene

    Takashi Ohshima;Katsuji Kagechika;Midori Adachi;Mikiko Sodeoka

  • Lanthanum(III) triflate catalyzed direct amidation of esters.

    Hiroyuki Morimoto;Risa Fujiwara;Yuhei Shimizu;Kazuhiro Morisaki

  • A new entry in catalytic alkynylation of aldehydes and ketones: dual activation of soft nucleophiles and hard electrophiles by an indium(III) catalyst.

    Ryo Takita;Yuhei Fukuta;Riichiro Tsuji;Takashi Ohshima

  • Sodium methoxide: a simple but highly efficient catalyst for the direct amidation of esters.

    Takashi Ohshima;Yukiko Hayashi;Kazushi Agura;Yuka Fujii

  • Unprecedented halide dependence on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-aryl- and 2-alkyl-substituted quinolinium salts by using Ir complexes with difluorphos and halide ligands.

    Hiroshi Tadaoka;Damien Cartigny;Takuto Nagano;Tushar Gosavi

  • Linked-BINOL: An Approach towards Practical Asymmetric Multifunctional Catalysis

    Shigeki Matsunaga;Takashi Ohshima;Masakatsu Shibasaki

  • Direct use of allylic alcohols for platinum-catalyzed monoallylation of amines.

    Masaru Utsunomiya;Yoshiki Miyamoto;Junji Ipposhi;Takashi Ohshima

  • Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of α,β-unsaturated amides: Efficient synthesis of β-aryl α-hydroxy amides using a one-pot tandem catalytic asymmetric epoxidation - Pd-catalyzed epoxide opening process

    Tetsuhiro Nemoto;Hiroyuki Kakei;Vijay Gnanadesikan;Shin Ya Tosaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki University of Tokyo
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima Osaka University
K. C. Nicolaou
K. C. Nicolaou Rice University
Dionisios Vourloumis
Dionisios Vourloumis Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
Sanghee Kim
Sanghee Kim Seoul National University
Jeffrey A. Pfefferkorn
Jeffrey A. Pfefferkorn Pfizer (United States)
Shigeki Matsunaga
Shigeki Matsunaga Kyoto University
Nicolas Winssinger
Nicolas Winssinger University of Geneva
Naoya Kumagai
Naoya Kumagai University of Tokyo

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