Toshinobu Higashimura

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Best Publications

• Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate with the Carbon Tetrachloride/Dichlorotris- (triphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II)/Methylaluminum Bis(2,6-di-tert-butylphenoxide) Initiating System: Possibility of Living Radical Polymerization

  Mitsuru Kato;Masami Kamigaito;Mitsuo Sawamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  4500
  Citations

• Poly[1-(trimethylsilyl)-1-propyne]: a new high polymer synthesized with transition-metal catalysts and characterized by extremely high gas permeability

  Toshio Masuda;Eiji Isobe;Toshinobu Higashimura;Koichi Takada

  670
  Citations

• Living polymerization of isobutyl vinyl ether with hydrogen iodide/iodine initiating system

  Masaaki Miyamoto;Mitsuo Sawamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  660
  Citations

• Synthesis of high polymers from substituted acetylenes: exploitation of molybdenum- and tungsten-based catalysts

  Toshio Masuda;Toshinobu Higashimura

  369
  Citations

• Living cationic polymerization of vinyl monomers by organoaluminum halides. 3. Living polymerization of isobutyl vinyl ether by ethyldichloroaluminum in the presence of ester additives

  Sadahito Aoshima;Toshinobu Higashimura

  329
  Citations

• Diffusion and solution of gases in substituted polyacetylene membranes

  Toshio Masuda;Yuichiro Iguchi;Ben-Zhong Tang;Toshinobu Higashimura

  286
  Citations

• Gas permeability of polyacetylenes carrying substituents

  Koichi Takada;Hidehiko Matsuya;Toshio Masuda;Toshinobu Higashimura

  243
  Citations

• Polymerization of 1-(trimethylsilyl)-1-propyne by halides of niobium(V) and tantalum(V) and polymer properties

  Toshio Masuda;Eiji Isobe;Toshinobu Higashimura

  222
  Citations

• Polymerization of silicon-containing diphenylacetylenes and high gas permeability of the product polymers

  Kenji Tsuchihara;Toshio Masuda;Toshinobu Higashimura

  212
  Citations

• Synthesis of monodisperse living poly(vinyl ethers) and block copolymers by the hydrogen iodide/iodine initiating system

  Masaaki Miyamoto;Mitsuo Sawamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  208
  Citations

• Tractable silicon-containing poly(diphenylacetylenes): their synthesis and high gas permeability

  Kenji Tsuchihara;Toshio Masuda;Toshinobu Higashimura

  202
  Citations

• Hydrogen iodide/zinc iodide: a new initiating system for living cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers at room temperature

  Mitsuo Sawamoto;Chihiro Okamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  191
  Citations

• Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes. I. Polymerization of Phenylacetylene Catalyzed by WCI6and MoCI5

  Toshio Masuda;Kan-ichi Hasegawa;Toshinobu Higashimura

  187
  Citations

• Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes. III. Structure and Properties of Poly(phenylacetylene)s Obtained by WCL6or MoCl5

  Toshio Masuda;Noriaki Sasaki;Toshinobu Higashimura

  185
  Citations

• Thermal degradation of polyacetylenes carrying substituents

  Toshio Masuda;Ben Zhong Tang;Toshinobu Higashimura;Hitoshi Yamaoka

  185
  Citations

• Star-shaped polymers by living cationic polymerization. 1. Synthesis of star-shaped polymers of alkyl and vinyl ethers

  Shokyoku Kanaoka;Mitsuo Sawamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  177
  Citations

• Living Cationic Polymerization of Isobutyl Vinyl Ether by Hydrogen Chloride/Lewis Acid Initiating Systems in the Presence of Salts. In-Situ Direct NMR Analysis of the Growing Species.

  Masami Kamigaito;Yoshihiro Maeda;Mitsuo Sawamoto;Toshinobu Higashimura

  173
  Citations

• Living Polymerization and Selective Dimerization: Two Extremes of the Polymer Synthesis by Cationic Polymerization

  Toshinobu Higashimura;Mitsuo Sawamoto

  172
  Citations

• New initiators for living cationic polymerization of vinyl compounds

  Toshinobu Higashimura;Sadahito Aoshima;Mitsuo Sawamoto

  167
  Citations

• Mechanisms of living polymerization of vinyl ethers by the hydrogen iodide/iodine initiating system

  Toshinobu Higashimura;Masaaki Miyamoto;Mitsuo Sawamoto

  147
  Citations