Yoshinori Yamamoto

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Heterocyclic Synthesis

  Itaru Nakamura;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  2184
  Citations

• SELECTIVE REACTIONS USING ALLYLIC METALS

  Yoshinori. Yamamoto;Naoki. Asao

  2174
  Citations

• Coinage Metal-Assisted Synthesis of Heterocycles

  Nitin T. Patil;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  1280
  Citations

• Atomic origins of the high catalytic activity of nanoporous gold

  Takeshi Fujita;Takeshi Fujita;Pengfei Guan;Keith P McKenna;Keith P McKenna;Xingyou Lang

  981
  Citations

• Recent advances in the transition-metal-catalyzed regioselective approaches to polysubstituted benzene derivatives.

  Unknown

  909
  Citations

• From σ- to π-Electrophilic Lewis Acids. Application to Selective Organic Transformations

  Yoshinori Yamamoto

  542
  Citations

• Lewis acid-catalyzed benzannulation via unprecedented [4+2] cycloaddition of o-alkynyl(oxo)benzenes and enynals with alkynes.

  Naoki Asao;Tsutomu Nogami;Sunyoung Lee;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  525
  Citations

• AuCl3-Catalyzed Benzannulation: Synthesis of Naphthyl Ketone Derivatives from o-Alkynylbenzaldehydes with Alkynes

  Naoki Asao;Kumiko Takahashi;Sunyoung Lee;Taisuke Kasahara

  506
  Citations

• Transition Metal‐Catalyzed Reactions of Methylenecyclopropanes

  Itaru Nakamura;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  484
  Citations

• Gold‐Catalyzed Intramolecular Carbothiolation of Alkynes: Synthesis of 2,3‐Disubstituted Benzothiophenes from (α‐Alkoxy Alkyl) (ortho‐Alkynyl Phenyl) Sulfides

  Itaru Nakamura;Takuma Sato;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  423
  Citations

• A Novel B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Reduction of Alcohols and Cleavage of Aryl and Alkyl Ethers with Hydrosilanes†

  Vladimir Gevorgyan;Michael Rubin;Sharonda Benson;Jian Xiu Liu

  377
  Citations

• AuBr3-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Benzannulation between an Enynal Unit and Enol

  Naoki Asao;Haruo Aikawa;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  365
  Citations

• Pd(II) acts simultaneously as a Lewis acid and as a transition-metal catalyst: synthesis of cyclic alkenyl ethers from acetylenic aldehydes.

  Naoki Asao;Tsutomu Nogami;Kumiko Takahashi;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  356
  Citations

• Copper- or Phosphine-Catalyzed Reaction of Alkynes with Isocyanides. Regioselective Synthesis of Substituted Pyrroles Controlled by the Catalyst

  Shin Kamijo;Chikashi Kanazawa;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  349
  Citations

• Selective Synthesis by Use of Lewis Acids in the Presence of Organocopper and Related Reagents. New Synthetic Methods (61)

  Yoshinori Yamamoto

  321
  Citations

• Gold‐Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroamination of Allenes with Arylamines and Resulting High Chirality Transfer

  Naoko Nishina;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  317
  Citations

• Synthesis of 2,3-Disubstituted Benzofurans by Platinum−Olefin-Catalyzed Carboalkoxylation of o-Alkynylphenyl Acetals

  Itaru Nakamura;Yuya Mizushima;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  310
  Citations

• Palladium-catalyzed intramolecular asymmetric hydroamination of alkynes.

  Léopold M. Lutete;Isao Kadota;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  308
  Citations

• Nanostructured materials as catalysts: nanoporous-gold-catalyzed oxidation of organosilanes with water.

  Naoki Asao;Yoshifumi Ishikawa;Naoya Hatakeyama;Menggenbateer

  299
  Citations

• Direct Mannich and Nitro-Mannich Reactions with Non-Activated Imines: AgOTf-Catalyzed Addition of Pronucleophiles to ortho-Alkynylaryl Aldimines Leading to 1,2-Dihydroisoquinolines

  Naoki Asao;Salprima Yudha S.;Tsutomu Nogami;Yoshinori Yamamoto

  295
  Citations

• PALLADIUM CATALYSED PRONUCLEOPHILE ADDITION TO UNACTIVATED CARBON-CARBON MULTIPLE BONDS

  Yoshinori Yamamoto;Ukkiramapandian Radhakrishnan

  293
  Citations

• Alkyne activation with Brønsted acids, iodine, or gold complexes, and its fate leading to synthetic application

  Yoshinori Yamamoto;Ilya D. Gridnev;Nitin T. Patil;Tienan Jin

  286
  Citations

• Acyclic stereocontrol via allylic organometallic compounds

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  256
  Citations