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Yuichiro Himeda is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Energy. Within these fields, their work addresses subfields including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Process Chemistry and Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The scientist's research topics extensively cover carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, hydrogen storage and materials, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, crystallization and solubility studies, and applications of X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Yuichiro Himeda has contributed to several recent publications that reflect an emphasis on catalytic processes related to carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage. Selected papers include:

  • "Heterogeneous Catalysis for Carbon Dioxide Mediated Hydrogen Storage Technology Based on Formic Acid" (2022), published in Advanced Energy Materials
  • "CO2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using Ir Catalysts with Amide-Based Ligands" (2020), published in Organometallics
  • "Recent Progress in Homogeneous Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid" (2022), published in Molecules
  • "Homogeneous catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol and methanol dehydrogenation to hydrogen generation" (2022), published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol Using Multinuclear Iridium Complexes in a Gas-Solid Phase Reaction" (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yuichiro Himeda include:

  • Ryoichi Kanega
  • Naoya Onishi
  • Hajime Kawanami
  • Yoshiaki Nishibayashi
  • Yuankang Xu

The scientist publishes predominantly in specialized venues related to chemistry and materials science, with frequent contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry Letters, Advanced Energy Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, and ChemPlusChem.

Best Publications

  • CO2 Hydrogenation to Formate and Methanol as an Alternative to Photo- and Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

    Wan Hui Wang;Yuichiro Himeda;James T. Muckerman;Gerald F. Manbeck

  • Reversible hydrogen storage using CO2 and a proton-switchable iridium catalyst in aqueous media under mild temperatures and pressures.

    Jonathan F Hull;Yuichiro Himeda;Wan-Hui Wang;Brian G Hashiguchi

  • Highly efficient hydrogen evolution by decomposition of formic acid using an iridium catalyst with 4,4′-dihydroxy-2,2′-bipyridine

    Yuichiro Himeda

  • Simultaneous Tuning of Activity and Water Solubility of Complex Catalysts by Acid−Base Equilibrium of Ligands for Conversion of Carbon Dioxide

    Yuichiro Himeda;Nobuko Onozawa-Komatsuzaki;and Hideki Sugihara;Kazuyuki Kasuga

  • Conversion of CO2 into Formate by Homogeneously Catalyzed Hydrogenation in Water: Tuning Catalytic Activity and Water Solubility through the Acid–Base Equilibrium of the Ligand

    Yuichiro Himeda

  • Interconversion between Formic Acid and H2/CO2 using Rhodium and Ruthenium Catalysts for CO2 Fixation and H2 Storage

    Yuichiro Himeda;Satoru Miyazawa;Takuji Hirose

  • Recent progress for reversible homogeneous catalytic hydrogen storage in formic acid and in methanol

    Naoya Onishi;Gábor Laurenczy;Matthias Beller;Yuichiro Himeda

  • Second-coordination-sphere and electronic effects enhance iridium(III)-catalyzed homogeneous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide in water near ambient temperature and pressure

    Wan Hui Wang;Jonathan F. Hull;James T. Muckerman;Etsuko Fujita

  • Mechanistic Insight through Factors Controlling Effective Hydrogenation of CO2 Catalyzed by Bioinspired Proton-Responsive Iridium(III) Complexes

    Wan Hui Wang;James T. Muckerman;Etsuko Fujita;Yuichiro Himeda

  • Tandem Nitrogen Functionalization of Porous Carbon: Toward Immobilizing Highly Active Palladium Nanoclusters for Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid

    Zhangpeng Li;Xinchun Yang;Nobuko Tsumori;Zheng Liu

  • Cp*Co(III) catalysts with proton-responsive ligands for carbon dioxide hydrogenation in aqueous media.

    Yosra M. Badiei;Wan Hui Wang;Jonathan F. Hull;David J. Szalda;David J. Szalda

  • Half-Sandwich Complexes with 4,7-Dihydroxy-1,10-phenanthroline: Water-Soluble, Highly Efficient Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Bicarbonate Attributable to the Generation of an Oxyanion on the Catalyst Ligand

    Yuichiro Himeda;Nobuko Onozawa-Komatsuzaki;Hideki Sugihara;Hironori Arakawa

  • Formic Acid‐Based Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier System with Heterogeneous Catalysts

    Heng Zhong;Masayuki Iguchi;Maya Chatterjee;Yuichiro Himeda

  • Formic Acid Dehydrogenation with Bioinspired Iridium Complexes: A Kinetic Isotope Effect Study and Mechanistic Insight

    Wan Hui Wang;Wan Hui Wang;Shaoan Xu;Yuichi Manaka;Yuki Suna

  • pH‐Dependent Catalytic Activity and Chemoselectivity in Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Iridium Complex with 4,4′‐Dihydroxy‐2,2′‐bipyridine

    Yuichiro Himeda;Nobuko Onozawa-Komatsuzaki;Satoru Miyazawa;Hideki Sugihara

  • Transfer hydrogenation of a variety of ketones catalyzed by rhodium complexes in aqueous solution and their application to asymmetric reduction using chiral Schiff base ligands

    Yuichiro Himeda;Nobuko Onozawa-Komatsuzaki;Hideki Sugihara;Hironori Arakawa

  • Efficient H2 generation from formic acid using azole complexes in water

    Yuichi Manaka;Wan Hui Wang;Yuki Suna;Hide Kambayashi

  • Highly Robust Hydrogen Generation by Bioinspired Ir Complexes for Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid in Water: Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Investigations at Different pH

    Wan Hui Wang;Mehmed Z. Ertem;Shaoan Xu;Naoya Onishi

  • Development of Effective Catalysts for Hydrogen Storage Technology Using Formic Acid

    Naoya Onishi;Masayuki Iguchi;Xinchun Yang;Ryoichi Kanega

  • Recyclable catalyst for conversion of carbon dioxide into formate attributable to an oxyanion on the catalyst ligand.

    Yuichiro Himeda;Nobuko Onozawa-Komatsuzaki;Hideki Sugihara;Kazuyuki Kasuga

  • CO2 Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Iridium Complexes with a Proton-Responsive Ligand.

    Naoya Onishi;Shaoan Xu;Yuichi Manaka;Yuki Suna

Frequent Co-Authors

Etsuko Fujita
Etsuko Fujita Brookhaven National Laboratory
James T. Muckerman
James T. Muckerman Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hideki Sugihara
Hideki Sugihara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu Kyoto University
Kazuhisa Murata
Kazuhisa Murata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hironori Arakawa
Hironori Arakawa Tokyo University of Science
Gábor Laurenczy
Gábor Laurenczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi University of Tokyo
Ryuzi Katoh
Ryuzi Katoh Nihon University
Tom Autrey
Tom Autrey Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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