PUBLICATIONS

“Electrochemical and photocatalytic generation of cis-olefin-bridged carbodication for umpolung [4+1] cycloaddition” Hidenori Matsuyama, Kaisei Yokoyama, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada and Tienan Jin, Nat. Commun. 2026, Article in Press.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68836-z

“Pd/Cu/TsOH-cocatalysed direct synthesis of 1,3-dienyl-2-boronic acid: a new reagent for homoallenylboration” Xiang-Yu Wang, Dao-Jin Ruan, Takuma Sato, Kun Liu, Qin Zhong, Wei-Hua Ma, Tienan Jin, Masahiro Terada and Jian Zhao, Org. Chem. Front. 2026, 13, 981–990.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/qo/d5qo01521a

“Dynamic Dual Role as Cationic Cu+ and Cu Alkoxide in Cu-Catalyzed Dearomative Cascade Reactions” Riku Konta, Haruto Suzuki, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada, Itaru Nakamura, Org. Lett. ASAP Article.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c05052

“Nanoporous Gold Catalyzed Borylation of C(sp³)−O Bonds in Dialkyl Ethers and Mechanistic Elucidation” Yuhui Zhao, Charlie Lacroix, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada, Tienan Jin, ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 13118−13126.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c03560

“Structural, Photophysical, and Distributed Feedback Lasing Characteristics of Furan-Substituted Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer Single Crystals” Periyasamy Angamuthu Praveen, Thangavel Kanagasekaran, Chaoyan Ma, Masahiro Terada, Tienan Jin, Yusuke Wakabayashi, Hidekazu Shimotani, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 38297−38304.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c05119

“Scalable Total Synthesis of Bastimolide A Enabled by Asymmetric Allylborations Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acids” Shigenobu Umemiya, Naoya Shinagawa, Aisuke Fujimoto,  Masahiro Terada, JACS Au, 2025, 5, 3052–3057.  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.5c00630

“Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Reaction for Concise Synthesis of CF3-Substituted Tetrahydro-β-Carbolines” Shigenobu Umemiya, Shinnosuke Nara,  Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 6204–6210. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c01864

“2-(Cyanomethyl)benzimidazole Derivatives as 1,3-Dicarbonyl Analogues for a Kinetically Controlled Diastereo- and Enantioselective Mannich-Type Reaction Catalyzed by Chiral Phosphoric Acid” Haiting Ye, Linan Hou, Akihiro Takeda, Takuma Sato, Jyothi Yadav, Jun Kikuchi, Ming Bao,  Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 5720–5725. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c01478

“Modular Synthesis of 2,3,4,6-Tetrasubstituted Thieno[2,3-c]furans Based on Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition Utilizing [1,2]-Phospha-Brook Rearrangement / Brønsted Base-Mediated Cyclization Strategy” Azusa Kondoh, Kohei Aita, Masahiro Terada, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2025, Early View. https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adsc.202500255

“Pd-catalyzed site-specific heteroaromatic C–H/peri-C–H annulative coupling for synthesis of cyclopenta-fused polycyclic heteroarenes” Tienan Jin, Masaki Kawata, Sho Aida and Masahiro Terada, Org. Chem. Front. 2025, 12, 3230–3238.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D5QO00034C

“Chiral Brønsted acid-catalysed enantioselective allylboration of sterically hindered aldehydes enabled by multiple hydrogen bonding interactions” Shigenobu Umemiya, Sotaro Osaka, Naoya Shinagawa, Takumi Hirata, and Masahiro Terada, Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 3865-3871.

https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc08443h

“Asymmetric Construction of Acyclic 1,3-Nonadjacent Stereogenic Centers Containing a Tetrasubstituted Carbon through Diastereoselective Alkylation of Benzyl Sulfone Derivatives” Rihaku Ojima, Azusa Kondoh, Masahiro Terada, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 28, e202401292

https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202401292

“Cu-catalyzed [1,3]-asymmetric methoxy rearrangement of N-methoxyanilines: mechanistic insight” Kazuki Masukawa, Amu Kojima, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada and Itaru Nakamura, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2025, 15, 2138-2142.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/CY/D5CY00106D

“Phosphazene base-catalyzed telescopic three-component reaction involving 1,1-difunctionalization of electron-deficient alkenes” Azusa Kondoh, Sho Yamaguchi, Masahiro Terada, Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 334-337.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/cc/d4cc05169f

Ag-Catalyzed Cyclization-Intermolecular Sulfinyl Group Transfer Cascade Reactions Enabling Enantioselective Synthesis of 4-Sulfinylisoquinolines” Itaru Nakamura, Keiryo Kubota, Hiroki Tashiro, Yushiro Saito, Masahiro Terada, Chem. Eur. J. 2025, e202403866. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/