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Tomoo Mizugaki

Tomoo Mizugaki

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
16166
World Ranking
5351
National Ranking
319

Overview

Tomoo Mizugaki is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on organic chemistry and mechanical and biomedical engineering, as well as inorganic and materials chemistry. The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, catalysis for biomass conversion, chemical synthesis and reactions, catalytic processes in materials science, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication.

Mizugaki's recent published papers include:

  • Unique Catalysis of Nickel Phosphide Nanoparticles to Promote the Selective Transformation of Biofuranic Aldehydes into Diketones in Water (2020, ACS Catalysis)
  • A cobalt phosphide catalyst for the hydrogenation of nitriles (2020, Chemical Science)
  • Air-Stable and Reusable Cobalt Phosphide Nanoalloy Catalyst for Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural Derivatives (2021, ACS Catalysis)
  • Single-Crystal Cobalt Phosphide Nanorods as a High-Performance Catalyst for Reductive Amination of Carbonyl Compounds (2021, JACS Au)
  • Air-stable and reusable nickel phosphide nanoparticle catalyst for the highly selective hydrogenation of d-glucose to d-sorbitol (2021, Green Chemistry)

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals, including:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • JACS Au
  • Green Chemistry
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Mizugaki collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Sho Yamaguchi, Takato Mitsudome, Jun Yamasaki, Seiji Yamazoe, and Kiyotaka Nakajima.

Best Publications

  • Hydroxyapatite-Supported Palladium Nanoclusters: A Highly Active Heterogeneous Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Alcohols by Use of Molecular Oxygen

    Kohsuke Mori;Takayoshi Hara;Tomoo Mizugaki;Kohki Ebitani

  • Creation of a Monomeric Ru Species on the Surface of Hydroxyapatite as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation

    Kazuya Yamaguchi;Kohsuke Mori;Tomoo Mizugaki;and Kohki Ebitani

  • Controlled synthesis of hydroxyapatite-supported palladium complexes as highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts.

    Kohsuke Mori;Kazuya Yamaguchi;Takayoshi Hara;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Oxidant‐Free Alcohol Dehydrogenation Using a Reusable Hydrotalcite‐Supported Silver Nanoparticle Catalyst

    Takato Mitsudome;Yusuke Mikami;Hisashi Funai;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Design of a Silver–Cerium Dioxide Core–Shell Nanocomposite Catalyst for Chemoselective Reduction Reactions†

    Takato Mitsudome;Yusuke Mikami;Motoshi Matoba;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • A Ruthenium-Grafted Hydrotalcite as a Multifunctional Catalyst for Direct α-Alkylation of Nitriles with Primary Alcohols

    Ken Motokura;Daisuke Nishimura;Kohsuke Mori;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Convenient and Efficient Pd‐Catalyzed Regioselective Oxyfunctionalization of Terminal Olefins by Using Molecular Oxygen as Sole Reoxidant

    Takato Mitsudome;Takuya Umetani;Naoya Nosaka;Kohsuke Mori

  • Catalysis of a hydroxyapatite-bound Ru complex:efficient heterogeneous oxidation of primary amines to nitriles in thepresence of molecular oxygen

    Kohsuke Mori;Kazuya Yamaguchi;Tomoo Mizugaki;Kohki Ebitani

  • Nucleophilic substitution reactions of alcohols with use of montmorillonite catalysts as solid Brønsted acids.

    Ken Motokura;Nobuaki Nakagiri;Tomoo Mizugaki;Kohki Ebitani

  • Efficient Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols using a Hydrotalcite-Supported Gold Nanoparticle Catalyst

    Takato Mitsudome;Akifumi Noujima;Tomoo Mizugaki;Koichiro Jitsukawa

  • Copper nanoparticles on hydrotalcite as a heterogeneous catalyst for oxidant-free dehydrogenation of alcohols.

    Takato Mitsudome;Yusuke Mikami;Kaori Ebata;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • An acidic layered clay is combined with a basic layered clay for one-pot sequential reactions.

    Ken Motokura;Noriaki Fujita;Kohsuke Mori;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Supported Silver‐Nanoparticle‐Catalyzed Highly Efficient Aqueous Oxidation of Phenylsilanes to Silanols

    Takato Mitsudome;Shusuke Arita;Haruhiko Mori;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Supported silver nanoparticle catalyst for selective hydration of nitriles to amides in water

    Takato Mitsudome;Yusuke Mikami;Haruhiko Mori;Shusuke Arita

  • One-step Synthesis of Core-Gold/Shell-Ceria Nanomaterial and Its Catalysis for Highly Selective Semihydrogenation of Alkynes.

    Takato Mitsudome;Masaaki Yamamoto;Zen Maeno;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Highly Selective Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol to 1,3-Propanediol over a Boehmite-Supported Platinum/Tungsten Catalyst

    Racha Arundhathi;Tomoo Mizugaki;Takato Mitsudome;Koichiro Jitsukawa

  • Reconstructed hydrotalcite as a highly active heterogeneous base catalyst for carbon-carbon bond formations in the presence of water.

    Kohki Ebitani;Ken Motokura;Kohsuke Mori;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Development of Ruthenium−Hydroxyapatite-Encapsulated Superparamagnetic γ-Fe2O3 Nanocrystallites as an Efficient Oxidation Catalyst by Molecular Oxygen

    Kohsuke Mori;Satoko Kanai;Takayoshi Hara;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Metal–Ligand Core–Shell Nanocomposite Catalysts for the Selective Semihydrogenation of Alkynes

    Takato Mitsudome;Yusuke Takahashi;Satoshi Ichikawa;Tomoo Mizugaki

  • Supported gold nanoparticle catalyst for the selective oxidation of silanes to silanols in water.

    Takato Mitsudome;Akifumi Noujima;Tomoo Mizugaki;Koichiro Jitsukawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiyotomi Kaneda
Kiyotomi Kaneda Osaka University
Kohki Ebitani
Kohki Ebitani Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kohsuke Mori
Kohsuke Mori Osaka University
Seiji Yamazoe
Seiji Yamazoe Tokyo Metropolitan University
Kazuya Yamaguchi
Kazuya Yamaguchi University of Tokyo
Michael D. Amiridis
Michael D. Amiridis University of Illinois at Chicago
George W. Huber
George W. Huber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Keiichi Tomishige
Keiichi Tomishige Tohoku University

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