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Toshikazu Hirao

Toshikazu Hirao

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Chemistry

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69
Citations
16957
World Ranking
6191
National Ranking
394

Overview

Toshikazu Hirao is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within chemistry and materials science, focusing on organic chemistry, polymers, and applied materials chemistry. The work covers various specialized subfields, including organic chemistry, polymers and plastics, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

The primary research topics addressed in Hirao's publications include:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Catalytic C-H functionalization methods
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts
  • Oxidative organic chemistry reactions
  • Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology
  • Synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds

Hirao has published in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • RSC Advances
  • Chemical Communications
  • Organometallics
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hirao include:

  • "Oxovanadium(v)-catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling of enolates using O2 as a terminal oxidant," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "Structural Consequences of Two-Fold Deprotonation of Sumanene: Embedding Two Cp-rings into a Nonplanar Carbon Framework," 2021, Organometallics
  • "Oxovanadium(v)-catalyzed amination of carbon dioxide under ambient pressure for the synthesis of ureas," 2021, RSC Advances
  • "Synthesis of Self-Doped Conductive Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) Bearing Phosphonic Acid Moieties," 2022, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • "Self-doped conducting polyaniline bearing phosphonic acid as a hole transport layer in organic photovoltaics," 2024, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Collaboration forms a notable part of Hirao's research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Toru Amaya
  • Mamoru Tobisu
  • Masato Daijo
  • Kahori Kiriyama
  • Yuhi Inada

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carbonyl compounds by palladium(II)-catalyzed dehydrosilylation of silyl enol ethers

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  • A Synthesis of Sumanene, a Fullerene Fragment

    Hidehiro Sakurai;Taro Daiko;Toshikazu Hirao

  • PALLADIUM-CATALYZED NEW CARBON-PHOSPHORUS BOND FORMATION

    T. Hirao;T. Masunaga;N. Yamada;Y. Ohshiro

  • Vanadium in Modern Organic Synthesis

    Toshikazu Hirao

  • A NOVEL SYNTHESIS OF DIALKYL ARENEPHOSPHONATES

    Toshikazu Hirao;Toshio Masunaga;Yoshiki Ohshiro;Toshio Agawa

  • HIGHLY REGIO- AND STEREOCONTROLLED SYNTHESIS OF VINYL SULFIDES VIA TRANSITION-METAL-CATALYZED HYDROTHIOLATION OF ALKYNES WITH THIOLS

    Akiya Ogawa;Takuma Ikeda;Kouichi Kimura;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Structural elucidation of sumanene and generation of its benzylic anions.

    Hidehiro Sakurai;Taro Daiko;Hiroyuki Sakane;Toru Amaya

  • Stereoselective synthesis of vinylphosphonate

    Toshikazu Hirao;Toshio Masunaga;Yoshiki Ohshiro;Toshio Agawa

  • Pd/C as a reusable catalyst for the coupling reaction of halophenols and arylboronic acids in aqueous media.

    Hidehiro Sakurai;Tatsuya Tsukuda;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Chirality Organization of Ferrocenes Bearing Podand Dipeptide Chains: Synthesis and Structural Characterization

    Toshiyuki Moriuchi;Akihiro Nomoto;Kazuhiro Yoshida;and Akiya Ogawa

  • Anisotropic Electron Transport Properties in Sumanene Crystal

    Toru Amaya;Shu Seki;Toshiyuki Moriuchi;Kana Nakamoto

  • A molecular bowl sumanene

    Toru Amaya;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Design of Ferrocene-Dipeptide Bioorganometallic Conjugates To Induce Chirality-Organized Structures

    Toshiyuki Moriuchi;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Highly ordered structures of peptides by using molecular scaffolds.

    Toshiyuki Moriuchi;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Conjugated systems composed of transition metals and redox-active π-conjugated ligands

    Toshikazu Hirao

  • Surface-active properties of novel cationic surfactants with two alkyl chains and two ammonio groups

    Tae-Seong Kim;Toshiyuki Kida;Yohji Nakatsuji;Toshikazu Hirao

  • A highly ordered ferrocene system regulated by podand peptide chains

    Akihiro Nomoto;Toshiyuki Moriuchi;Shuhei Yamazaki;Akiya Ogawa

  • Redox Behavior of Polyaniline−Transition Metal Complexes in Solution

    Masayoshi Higuchi;Daisuke Imoda;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Interesting and effective P,N-chelation of tetrasubstituted ferrocene ligands for palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution

    Wanbin Zhang;Toshikazu Hirao;Isao Ikeda

  • Highly diastereoselective ortho-lithiation of 1,1′-bis-(oxazolinyl)ferrocene directed to C2-symmetric chiral ligands

    Wanbin Zhang;Yoichi Adachi;Toshikazu Hirao;Isao Ikeda

  • A Novel Synthetic Metal Catalytic System

    Masayoshi Higuchi;Isao Ikeda;Toshikazu Hirao

  • Cyclization reactions via oxo-.pi.-allylpalladium(II) intermediates

    Yoshihiko Ito;Hirokazu Aoyama;Toshikazu Hirao;Akira Mochizuki

  • Bowl-to-bowl inversion of sumanene derivatives

    Toru Amaya;Hiroyuki Sakane;Toshiko Muneishi;Toshikazu Hirao

Frequent Co-Authors

Isao Ikeda
Isao Ikeda Osaka University
Ken-ichiro Hayashi
Ken-ichiro Hayashi Okayama University of Science
Hideo Kurosawa
Hideo Kurosawa Osaka University
Yoshihiko Ito
Yoshihiko Ito Kyoto University
Takeo Saegusa
Takeo Saegusa Kyoto University
Mamoru Tobisu
Mamoru Tobisu Osaka University
Akinori Saeki
Akinori Saeki Osaka University
Shu Seki
Shu Seki Kyoto University
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Yoshinori Takashima
Yoshinori Takashima Osaka University

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