PUBLICATIONS

“Copper-Catalyzed Cascade Transformation of O-Propargylic Oximes with Sulfonyl Azides to α,β-Unsaturated N-Acylamidines” Dong Zhang, Itaru Nakamura, and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett. 2014, 16(19) 5184-5187 DOI: 10.1021/ol502541w.

“Efficient Synthesis of N-Alkylated α,β-Unsaturated Ketonitrones via Cu-Catalyzed Rearrangement” Itaru Nakamura, Toshiki Onuma, Ryo Kanazawa, Yuki Nishigai, and Masahiro Terada Organic Letters 2014, 16(16) 4198-4200, DOI: 10.1021/ol501889g

“Synthesis of Bulky Aryl Group-substituted Chiral Bis(guanidino)iminophosphoranes as Uncharged Chiral Organosuperbase Catalysts” Tadahiro Takeda and Masahiro Terada, Australian Journal of Chemistry 67(7) 1124-1128 DOI: 10.1071/CH14195

“Efficient Synthesis of Eight-Membered Nitrogen Heterocycles from O-Propargylic Oximes by Rhodium-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions” Itaru Nakamura, Yoshinori Sato, Keisuke Takeda and Masahiro Terada, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 10214-10219, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201403637


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“N-​Allenylnitrone acts as 2-​azadiene in the Cu-​catalyzed cascade reaction of O-​propargylic oximes with azodicarboxylates” Itaru Nakamura, Takeru Jo, Dong Zhang and Masahiro Terada, Org. Chem. Front., 2014, 1(8) 914-918 DOI: 10.1039/C4QO00156G

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“Intramolecular Cyclization of Alkynyl α-Ketoanilide Utilizing [1,2]-Phospha-Brook Rearrangement Catalyzed by Phosphazene Base” Azusa Kondoh, Takuma Aoki, and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett. Article 2014, 16 (13) 3528-3531, DOI: 10.1021/ol501479t

“Secondary Stereocontrolling Interactions in Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalysis: Study of a Petasis-Ferrier-Type Rearrangement Catalyzed by Chiral Phosphoric Acids” Kyohei Kanomata, Yasunori Toda, Yukihiro Shibata, Masahiro Yamanaka, Seiji Tsuzuki, Ilya Gridnev and Masahiro Terada Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 3515-3523 , DOI: 10.1039/C4SC00611A

“Mechanistic Studies of Highly Enantio- and Diastereoselective Aza-Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement Catalyzed by Chiral Phosphoric Acid” Masahiro Terada, Takazumi Komuro, Yasunori Toda, and Toshinobu Korenaga J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136(19), 7044-7057, DOI: 10.1021/ja5017206

“Cu-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of O-Propargylic Electron-Rich Arylaldoximes into Amidodienes” Itaru Nakamura, Yasuhiro Ishida, and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett., 2014, 16 (9), pp 2562–2565 DOI: 10.1021/ol5009608

“Heterocyclic Synthesis by π-Acidic Metal Catalyzed Reactions via N-O Bond Cleavage” Itaru Nakamura and Masahiro Terada, Heterocycles, 2014, 89(4), 845-868, DOI: 10.3987/REV-13-791

“Synthesis of 1,6-dihydropyrimidines via copper-catalyzed multistep cascade reactions between O-propargylic aldoximes and isocyanates” Itaru Nakamura, Toshiki Onuma, Dong Zhang, Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Letters, 2014, 55(6), 1178-1182, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.12.105.

“Chiral Silver Phosphate Catalyzed Transformation of ortho-Alkynylaryl Ketones into 1H-Isochromene Derivatives through an Intramolecular-Cyclization/Enantioselective-Reduction Sequence” Masahiro Terada, Feng Li, Yasunori Toda, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 235-239, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307371.

“Design and Synthesis of Helically Chiral Spirocyclic P3 Phosphazenes and Characterization of Their Onium Salts” Masahiro Terada, Kengo Goto, Masafumi Oishi, Tadahiro Takeda, Eunsang Kwon, Azusa Kondoh, Synlett 2013; 24(19): 2531-2534 DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1340058

“Phosphazene-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of nitrogen-tethered alkynyl esters” Azusa Kondoh, Kenichi Ando and Masahiro Terada, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 10254-10256, DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46100a

“Chiral Anion Catalysis in the Enantioselective 1,4-Reduction of the 1-Benzopyrylium Ion as a Reactive Intermediate” Masahiro Terada, Takuto Yamanaka, Yasunori Toda, Chemistry – A European Journal 2013, 19 (41) 13658–13662 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302486

“Development of a Chiral Bis(guanidino)iminophosphorane as an Uncharged Organosuperbase for the Enantioselective Amination of Ketones” Tadahiro Takeda and Masahiro Terada J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135(41) 15306-15309 DOI: 10.1021/ja408296h

“Brønsted Base Catalyzed [2,3]-Wittig/Phospha-Brook Tandem Rearrangement Sequence” Azusa Kondoh, Masahiro Terada Org. Lett., 2013, 15 (17), pp 4568–4571 DOI: 10.1021/ol402144q

“Oxazepine Synthesis by Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Cascade Reactions between O-Propargylic Oximes and Dipolarophiles” Itaru Nakamura, Yu Kudo, Masahiro Terada, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2013, 52(29), 7536-7539. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201302751

“Relay Catalysis by a Ruthenium Complex-Chiral Brønsted Acid Binary Sytem for Ternary Reaction Sequence Involving Enantioselective Pictet-Spengler-Type Cyclization as the Key Step” Yasunori Toda, Masahiro Terada, Synlett, 2013, 24(6), 752-756, DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1318302

“Synthesis of Azepine Derivatives by Rhodium-Catalyzed Tandem 2,3-Rearrangement/Heterocyclization” Itaru Nakamura,, Masashi Okamoto, Yoshinori Sato, Masahiro Terada, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51(43), 10816–10819, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201205285 (Highlighted at front cover)

“Guanidine/Azole Binary System as an Efficient Catalyst for Morita–Baylis–Hillman Reaction” Prof. Dr. Masahiro Terada, Satoko Fukuchi, Kei Amagai, Dr. Megumi Nakano, Dr. Hitoshi Ube, ChemCatChem, 2012, 4(7), 963–967, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201200149

“Copper-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of O-Propargylic Aryloximes into Four-Membered Cyclic Nitrones – Chirality Transfer and Mechanistic Insight” Itaru Nakamura, Yu Kudo, Toshiharu Araki, Dong Zhang, Eunsang Kwon, Masahiro Terada, Synthesis 2012; 44(10): 1542-1550 DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290819

“Synthesis of Unsymmetrically Substituted 2,2’-Dihydroxy-1,1’-biaryl Derivatives Using Organic-Base-Catalyzed Ferrier-Type Rearrangement as the Key Step” Masahiro Terada and Katsunori Dan Chem. Commun., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31594G

“Relay Catalysis Using a Rhodium Complex/Chiral Brønsted Acid Binary System: Enantioselective Reduction of a Carbonyl Ylide as the Reactive Intermediate” Masahiro Terada, Yasunori Toda, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 2093 –2097. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107805

“Copper-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of O-Propargylic Alkylaldoximes via N–O Bond Cleavage” Itaru Nakamura, Tomoki Iwata, Dong Zhang, and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (1), pp 206–209 DOI: 10.1021/ol203001w

“Design of Chiral Bis-phosphoric Acid Catalyst Derived from (R)-3,3′-Di(2-hydroxy-3-arylphenyl)binaphthol: Catalytic Enantioselective Diels–Alder Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Amidodienes” Norie Momiyama, Tohru Konno, Yuichi Furiya, Takeaki Iwamoto, and Masahiro Terada J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (48), pp 19294–19297 DOI: 10.1021/ja2081444

“Direct Enantioselective Amination of α-Ketoesters Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Masahiro Terada, Kei Amagai, Kenichi Ando, Eunsang Kwon, Hitoshi Ube, Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 9037 – 9041. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201101076

“Thermally-induced skeletal rearrangement of (Z)-O-propargylic α,β-unsaturated aldoximes to multisubstituted pyridine oxides” Itaru Nakamura, Dong Zhang, Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52(48), 6470-6472 doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.09.107

“Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Stereoselective Addition of Azlactones to 3-Vinylindoles for Facile Access to Enantioenriched Tryptophan Derivatives” Masahiro Terada, Kenichi Moriya, Kyohei Kanomata, Keiichi Sorimachi, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50(52), 12586–12590, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201105562

“Platinum-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of 1,4-Enynes via 1,2-Alkenyl Rearrangement” Takuma Sato, Toshiki Onuma, Itaru Nakamura, and Masahiro Terada Org. Lett., 2011, 13 (19), pp 4992–4995 DOI: 10.1021/ol202104c .

“Metal-Free Chiral Phosphoric Acid or Chiral Metal Phosphate as Active Catalyst in the Activation of N-Acyl Aldimines” Masahiro Terada, Kyohei Kanomata, Synlett 2011(9): 1255-1258 DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260545.

“Regioselective Transformation of O-Propargylic Arylaldoximes to Four-Membered Cyclic Nitrones by Copper-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement” Itaru Nakamura, Toshiharu Araki, Dong Zhang, Yu Kudo, Eunsang Kwon, and Masahiro Terada Org. Lett., 2011, 13 (14), pp 3616–3619, DOI:10.1021/ol2012583

“Five-Bond Cleavage in Copper-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of O-Propargyl Arylaldoximes to β-Lactams (Additions and Corrections)” Itaru Nakamura, et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (17), p 6861 DOI: 10.1021/ja201074e


“Copper-Catalyzed Tandem [2,3]-Rearrangement and 6π-3-Azatriene Electrocyclization in (E)-O-Propargylic α,β-Unsaturated Oximes (Additions and Corrections)” Itaru Nakamura*, Dong Zhang, and Masahiro Terada J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (17), p 6862 DOI: 10.1021/ja201076c


“Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalysis for Enantioselective Hosomi−Sakurai Reaction of Imines with Allyltrimethylsilane” Norie Momiyama, Hayato Nishimoto, and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2126-2129, DOI:10.1021/ol200595b

“Enantioselective Direct Vinylogous Michael Addition of Functionalized Furanones to Nitroalkenes Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Masahiro Terada and Kenichi Ando, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2026-2029, DOI:10.1021/ol200415u

“Highly Stereoselective [4+2] Cycloaddition of Azlactones to β,γ-Unsaturated α-Ketoesters Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Masahiro Terada and Hiroyuki Nii, Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 1760-1763, DOI:10.1002/chem.201003015

“Synthesis of Bis(benzo[b]thiophenyl)methanes by Gold-Catalyzed Double Carbothiolation”
Itaru Nakamura, Masashi Okamoto, Takuma Sato and Masahiro Terada Heteocycles, 2010, 82, 689-697, DOI:10.3987/COM-10-S(E)44

“Copper-Catalyzed Rearrangement of (Z)-Propynal Hydrazones via N−N Bond Cleavage” Itaru Nakamura, Naozumi Shiraiwa, Ryo Kanazawa and Masahiro Terada Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 4198-4220, DOI: 10.1021/ol1017504

“Enantioselective aza-Friedel-Crafts reaction catalyzed by a water
inclusion complex of O,O’-diacyl tartaric acid” Hitoshi Ube, Satoko
Fukuchi and Masahiro Terada  Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2010, 9-10, 1203-1205,
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2010.04.012

“Chiral Phosphoric Acids as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective
Transformations” Masahiro Terada  Synthesis (Review), 2010, 1929-1982, DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218801

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“Copper-Catalyzed Tandem [2,3]-Rearrangement and 6π-3-Azatriene Electrocyclization in (E)-O-Propargylic α,β-Unsaturated Oximes” Itaru Nakamura, Dong Zhang and Masahiro Terada J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 7884-7886, DOI: 10.1021/ja102436z

“Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization and Subsequent Arylidene Group Transfer of O-Propioloyl Oximes” Itaru Nakamura, Masashi Okamoto and Masahiro Terada Org. Lett., 12, 2453-2455, DOI: 10.1021/ol100581m

“Chiral Phosphoric Acids as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Carbon–Carbon Bond Forming Reactions” Masahiro Terada, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2010, 83, 101-119, DOI:10.1246/bcsj.20090268

“Asymmetric Direct Vinylogous Aldol Reaction of Furanone Derivatives Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Hitoshi Ube, Naoki Shimada, Masahiro Terada Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 1858-1861, DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906647