Fine-Tuning of Boron Complexes with Cage-Shaped Ligand Geometry: Rational Design of Triphenolic Ligand as a Template for Structure Control Makoto Yasuda, Sachiko Yoshioka, Hideto Nakajima, Kouji Chiba, and Akio Baba Org. Lett. 2008, 10(5), 929-932. [Link]
Bu2SnIH-Promoted Proximal Bond Cleavage of Methylenecyclopropanes and Successive Radical Cyclization and/or Pd-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction Naoki Hayashi, Yusuke Hirokawa, Ikuya Shibata, Makoto Yasuda, and Akio Baba J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130 (10), 2912 -2913. [Link]
Reaction of alcohols and silyl ethers in the presence of an indium/silicon-based catalyst system: Deoxygenation and allyl substitution Akio Baba, Makoto Yasuda, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Takahiro Saito, and Yoshiyuki Onishi Pure Appl. Chem.2008, 80, 845-854. [Link]
Regiocontrolled Addition of Carbonyl Compounds with Allylic Indium Generated by Hydroindation of 1,3-Dienes Naoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Honda, Ikuya Shibata, Makoto Yasuda, Akio Baba Synlett2008, 1407-1411. [Link]
Microwave-Irradiated Transition-Metal Catalysis: Rapid and Efficient Dehydrative Carbon-Carbon Coupling of Alcohols with Active Methylenes Srinivasarao Arulananda Babu, Makoto Yasuda, Yasunori Tsukahara, Tomohisa Yamauchi, Yuji Wada, Akio Baba Synthesis2008, 1717-1724. [Link]
Hydroindation of allenes and its application to radical cyclization Naoki Hayashi, Yusuke Hirokawa, Ikuya Shibata, Makoto Yasuda and Akio Baba Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 1949 – 1954. [Link]
Direct chlorination of alcohols with chlorodimethylsilane catalyzed by a gallium trichloride/tartrate system under neutral conditions Makoto Yasuda, Kenji Shimizu, Satoshi Yamasaki and Akio Baba Org. Biomol. Chem.2008, 6, 2790-2795. [Link]
Germanium(II)-Mediated Reductive Cross-Aldol Reaction of Bromoaldehydes with Aldehydes: NMR Studies and ab Initio Calculations Shin-ya Tanaka, Nobuo Tagashira, Kouji Chiba, Makoto Yasuda, and Akio Baba J. Org. Chem., 2008, 73, 6312-6320. [Link]
Germanium(II)-Mediated Reductive Mannich-Type Reaction of α-Bromoketones to N-Alkylimines Shin-ya Tanaka, Nobuo Tagashira, Kouji Chiba, Makoto Yasuda, and Akio Baba Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 6620-6623. [Link]
Direct coupling of alcohols with alkenylsilanes catalyzed by indium trichloride or bismuth tribromide Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Masayuki Kajioka, Takahiro Saito, Makoto Yasuda and Akio Baba Chem. Commun., 2008, 6396-6398. [Link]
Esters as Acylating Reagent in a Friedel-Crafts Reaction: Indium Tribromide Catalyzed Acylation of Arenes Using Dimethylchlorosilane Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Srinivasarao Arulananda Babu, Makoto Yasuda and Akio Baba J. Org. Chem., 2008, 73 (23), 9465-9468 [Link]