Revisiting Glycosylations Using Glycosyl Fluoride by BF3·Et2O: Activation of Disarmed Glycosyl Fluorides with High Catalytic Turnover
Yoshiyuki Manabe, Takuya Matsumoto, Yuka Ikinaga, Yuya Tsutsui, Shota Sasaya, Yuichiro Kadonaga, Akihito Konishi, Makoto Yasuda, Tomoya Uto, Changhao Dai, Kumpei Yano, Atsushi Shimoyama, Ayana Matsuda, and Koichi Fukase Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 1, 6–10. [Link]
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Carboboration-Driven Generation of a Silylium Ion for Vinylic C–F Bond Functionalization by B(C6F5)3 Catalysis
Tetsuji Yata, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202103852. [Link]
Access to Metastable [GeH2]n Materials via a Molecular “Bottom-up” Approach
Jocelyn Sinclair, William Medroa del Pino, Kwami Aku-Dominguez, Yohei Minami, Anagha Kiran, Michael J. Ferguson, Makoto Yasuda, Eric Rivard Dalton Trans.2021, 50, 17688–17696. [Link]
Synthesis of π-Extended Non-Alternant Hydrocarbons Based on Azulene (5-7), Pentalene (5-5) and Heptalene (7-7) Skeletons and Elucidation of Their Electronic Structures
Akihito Konishi, Makoto Yasuda Adv. Phys. Org. Chem.2021, 55, 17–40. [Link]
Insertion of Diazo Esters into C–F Bonds toward Diastereoselective One-Carbon Elongation of Benzylic Fluorides: Unprecedented BF3 Catalysis with C–F Bond Cleavage and Re-formation
Fei Wang, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20616–20621. [Link]
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Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Atrane-type Hard and Soft Lewis Superacids with a Silyl, Germyl, or Stannyl Cationic Center
Daiki Tanaka, Akihito Konishi, Makoto Yasuda Chem. Asian J. 2021, 16, 3118–3123. [Link]
Middle Molecular Strategy -Flow Synthesis to Functional Molecules-
Chapter: Reaction Field for a Lewis Acid with a Tunable Factor for Selective Organic Synthesis (pp 225–260)
Akihito Konishi, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda
Editors: Koichi Fukase, Takayuki Doi
Publisher: Springer (ISBN: 978-981-16-2458-2) [book]
Homologation of Alkyl Acetates, Alkyl Ethers, Acetals and Ketals by Formal Insertion of Diazo Compounds into a Carbon-Carbon Bond
Fei Wang, Junyi Yi, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda Synthesis 2021, 53, 4004–4019. [Link]
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Photoredox-Catalyzed C–F Bond Allylation of Perfluoroalkylarenes at the Benzylic Position
Naoki Sugihara, Kensuke Suzuki, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 9308–9313. [Link]
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Effect of Noncovalent Interactions in Ion Pairs on Hypervalent Iodines: Inversion of Regioselectivity in Sulfonyloxylactonization
Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Masaki Fujie, Junki Hara, Makoto Yasuda Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 3695–3704. [Link]
Characterization of Benzo[a]naphtho[2,3-f]pentalene: Interrelation between Open-shell and Antiaromatic Characters Governed by Mode of the Quinoidal Subunit and Molecular Symmetry
Akihito Konishi, Koki Horii, Haruna Iwasa, Yui Okada, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Makoto Yasuda Chem. Asian J. 2021, 16, 1553-1561. [Link]
Indium‐catalyzed C–F Bond Transformation through Oxymetalation/β‐fluorine Elimination to Access Fluorinated Isocoumarins
Tetsuji Yata, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Kouji Chiba, Makoto Yasuda Chem. Eur. J.2021, 27, 8288–8294. [Link]
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Tuning of Lewis Acidity of Phebox-Al Complexes by Substituents on the Benzene Backbone and Unexpected Photocatalytic Activity for Hydrodebromination of Aryl Bromide
Shuichi Nakao, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda Chem. Lett.2021, 50, 538–541. [Link]