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Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

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Chemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
23568
World Ranking
2336
National Ranking
132

Overview

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans across multiple domains within materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to the fields of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, catalysis, inorganic chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work is notably centered on several key topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins

Nishibayashi has a productive publication record with papers published in notable venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry - A European Journal, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemistry Letters.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Comprehensive insights into synthetic nitrogen fixation assisted by molecular catalysts under ambient or mild conditions (2021), Chemical Society Reviews
  • Nitrogen reduction by the Fe sites of synthetic [Mo3S4Fe] cubes (2022), Nature
  • Catalytic production of ammonia from dinitrogen employing molybdenum complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene-based PCP-type pincer ligands (2023), Nature Synthesis
  • Catalytic nitrogen fixation using visible light energy (2022), Nature Communications
  • Recent advances in catalytic nitrogen fixation using transition metal-dinitrogen complexes under mild reaction conditions (2022), Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Frequent collaboration plays a role in Nishibayashi's research output. Their top co-authors include:

  • Shogo Kuriyama
  • Kazunari Yoshizawa
  • Kazuya Arashiba
  • Akihito Egi
  • Hiromasa Tanaka

Best Publications

  • A molybdenum complex bearing PNP-type pincer ligands leads to the catalytic reduction of dinitrogen into ammonia

    Kazuya Arashiba;Yoshihiro Miyake;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Molybdenum-catalysed ammonia production with samarium diiodide and alcohols or water

    Yuya Ashida;Kazuya Arashiba;Kazunari Nakajima;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Developing more sustainable processes for ammonia synthesis

    Yoshiaki Tanabe;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Synthetic Utilization of α-Aminoalkyl Radicals and Related Species in Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis.

    Kazunari Nakajima;Yoshihiro Miyake;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Visible-Light-Mediated Utilization of α-Aminoalkyl Radicals: Addition to Electron-Deficient Alkenes Using Photoredox Catalysts

    Yoshihiro Miyake;Kazunari Nakajima;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Catalytic Propargylic Substitution Reactions

    Yoshihiro Miyake;Sakae Uemura;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Recent Progress in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Reduction of Molecular Dinitrogen under Ambient Reaction Conditions

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Novel Propargylic Substitution Reactions Catalyzed by Thiolate-Bridged Diruthenium Complexes via Allenylidene Intermediates

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;and Issei Wakiji;Masanobu Hidai

  • Catalytic transformation of dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine by iron-dinitrogen complexes bearing pincer ligand

    Shogo Kuriyama;Kazuya Arashiba;Kazunari Nakajima;Yuki Matsuo

  • Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Propargylic Substitution Reactions of Propargylic Acetates with Amines

    Gaku Hattori;Hiroshi Matsuzawa;Yoshihiro Miyake;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Catalytic formation of ammonia from molecular dinitrogen by use of dinitrogen-bridged dimolybdenum-dinitrogen complexes bearing PNP-pincer ligands: remarkable effect of substituent at PNP-pincer ligand.

    Shogo Kuriyama;Kazuya Arashiba;Kazunari Nakajima;Hiromasa Tanaka

  • Transition-Metal-CatalyzedEnantioselective Propargylic Substitution Reactions ofPropargylic Alcohol Derivatives with Nucleophiles

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Bimetallic System for Nitrogen Fixation: Ruthenium-Assisted Protonation of Coordinated N2 on Tungsten with H2

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;Shotaro Iwai;Masanobu Hidai

  • Remarkable catalytic activity of dinitrogen-bridged dimolybdenum complexes bearing NHC-based PCP-pincer ligands toward nitrogen fixation.

    Aya Eizawa;Kazuya Arashiba;Hiromasa Tanaka;Shogo Kuriyama

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Highly Diastereoselective ortho-Lithiation of Oxazolinylferrocenes

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;Sakae Uemura

  • Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Use of Molybdenum–Nitride Complexes Bearing a Tridentate Triphosphine as Catalysts

    Kazuya Arashiba;Eriko Kinoshita;Shogo Kuriyama;Aya Eizawa

  • Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Propargylic Amination of Propargylic Esters with Amines: Copper−Allenylidene Complexes as Key Intermediates

    Gaku Hattori;Ken Sakata;Hiroshi Matsuzawa;Yoshiaki Tanabe

  • Interplay between Theory and Experiment for Ammonia Synthesis Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes.

    Hiromasa Tanaka;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;Kazunari Yoshizawa

  • Nickel- and Photoredox-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl Halides with 4-Alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines as Formal Nucleophilic Alkylation Reagents

    Kazunari Nakajima;Sunao Nojima;Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

  • Novel Ruthenium‐ and Platinum‐Catalyzed Sequential Reactions: Synthesis of Tri‐ and Tetrasubstituted Furans and Pyrroles from Propargylic Alcohols and Ketones

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;Masato Yoshikawa;Youichi Inada;Marilyn Daisy Milton

  • RUTHENIUM-CATALYZED ASYMMETRIC HYDROSILYLATION OF KETONES AND IMINE

    Yoshiaki Nishibayashi;Izuru Takei;Sakae Uemura;Masanobu Hidai

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshihiro Miyake
Yoshihiro Miyake Nagoya University
Sakae Uemura
Sakae Uemura Kyoto University
Kazunari Yoshizawa
Kazunari Yoshizawa Kyushu University
Masanobu Hidai
Masanobu Hidai University of Tokyo
Kouichi Ohe
Kouichi Ohe Kyoto University
Shin-ichi Fukuzawa
Shin-ichi Fukuzawa Chuo University
Nobuharu Iwasawa
Nobuharu Iwasawa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yasushi Mizobe
Yasushi Mizobe University of Tokyo
Kyoko Nozaki
Kyoko Nozaki University of Tokyo
Yuichiro Himeda
Yuichiro Himeda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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