PUBLICATIONS

“Enantioselective Electrophilic Amination of -Cyanothioacetates with Azodicarboxylates Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Masahiro Terada, Daisuke Tsushima, Megumi Nakano, Adv. Synth. Catal., 351, 2817-2821, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200900594

“Dichotomous Control of E/Z-Geometry in Intramolecular Cyclization of o-Alkynylbenzamide Derivatives Catalyzed by Organic Superbase P4-tBu in the Presence/Absence of Water” Chikashi Kanazawa, Masahiro Terada, Chem. Asian J., 2009, 1668-1672, DOI: 10.1002/asia.200900342

“Platinum-Catalyzed Multisubstituted Benzo[b]selenophene Synthesis” Takuma Sato, Itaru Nakamura, Masahiro Terada, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2009, 5509-5512, DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200900894

“Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Governed Anti-Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Hetero-Diels−Alder Reaction of Glyoxylate” Norie Momiyama, Hideaki Tabuse and Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 12882-12883, DOI: 10.1021/ja904749x

“Phosphazene base-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization for efficient synthesis of benzofurans via carbon–carbon bond formation” Chikashi Kanazawa, Kengo Goto and Masahiro Terada, Chem. Commun., 2009, 5248 – 5250, DOI: 10.1039/b913588j

“Acid-Base Dual-Functional Catalysis by Axially Chiral Guanidine in Enantioselective [3+2] Cycloaddition of Maleate to Schiff Bases as a Precursor of Azomethine Ylides” Megumi Nakano and Masahiro Terada, Synlett, 2009, 1670-1674. DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1217345

“Enantioselective Henry (nitroaldol) reaction catalyzed by axially chiral guanidines” Hitoshi Ube and Masahiro Terada Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2009, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.03.097

“Stereochemical Control by an Ester Group or Olefin Ligand in Platinum-Catalyzed Carboalkoxylation of 6-(1-Alkoxyethoxy)-hex-2-ynoates” Itaru Nakamura, Ching Siew Chan, Toshiharu Araki, Masahiro Terada and Yoshinori Yamamoto Adv. Synth. Catal., 2009, 351, 1089-1100, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200800772

“Double Bond Isomerization/Enantioselective Aza-Petasis−Ferrier Rearrangement Sequence as an Efficient Entry to Anti- and Enantioenriched β-Amino Aldehydes” Masahiro Terada and Yasunori Toda, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 6354-6355, DOI: 10.1021/ja902202g

“Phosphazene-Base-Catalyzed Tandem Addition-Cyclization Reaction of o-Alkynylbenzaldehyde with Oxygen and Nitrogen Nucleophiles” Chikashi Kanazawa, Akira Ito, Masahiro Terada, Synlett, 2009, 638-642, DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087909

“Platinum-Catalyzed Dehydroalkoxylation−Cyclization Cascade via N−O Bond Cleavage” Itaru Nakamura, Yusuke Sato and Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 4198-4199, DOI: 10.1021/ja900174t

“Activation of Hemiaminal Ethers by Chiral Brønsted Acids for Facile Access to Enantioselective Two-Carbon Homologation Using Enecarbamates” Masahiro Terada, Kyoko Machioka, Keiichi Sorimachi, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 2553-2556, DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805385

“Platinum-Catalyzed Consecutive C-N Bond Formation-[1,3] Shift of Carbamoyl and Ester Groups” Itaru Nakamura, Yusuke Sato, Sayaka Konta and Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 2075-2077, DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.02.108

“Enantioselective Direct Aldol-Type Reaction of Azlactone via Protonation of Vinyl Ethers by a Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalyst” Masahiro Terada, Hiroyasu Tanaka and Keiichi Sorimachi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 3430-3431, DOI: 10.1021/ja8090643

“Palladium-Catalyzed Indolization of N-Aroylbenzotriazoles with Disubstituted Alkynes” Itaru Nakamura, Tetsuya Nemoto, Naozumi Shiraiwa and Masahiro Terada, Org. Lett., 2009, 11, 1055–1058, DOI: 10.1021/ol900113f

“Five-Bond Cleavage in Copper-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of O-Propargyl Arylaldoximes to β-Lactams (Withdrawn on April 27, 2011)” Itaru Nakamura, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 2804–2805, DOI: 10.1021/ja900133m

“Gold-catalyzed consecutive [1,2] alkyl migration-oxygen transfer reaction of 2-alkynyl-1-tetralones” Ching Siew Chan, Toshiharu Araki, Itaru Nakamura, and Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 216-218, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.10.129

“Relay Catalysis by a Metal-Complex/Brønsted Acid Binary System in a Tandem Isomerization/Carbon−Carbon Bond Forming Sequence” Keiichi Sorimachi and Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 14452–14453, DOI: 10.1021/ja807591m

“Asymmetric Epoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Axially Chiral Guanidine Base” Masahiro Terada and Megumi Nakano, Heterocycles, 2008, 76, 1049-1055, DOI: COM-08-S(N)105

“Binaphthol-derived phosphoric acid as a versatile catalyst for enantioselective carbon–carbon bond forming reactions” Masahiro Terada, Chem. Commun., 2008, 4097 – 4112, DOI: 10.1039/b807577h

“Enantioselective Activation of Aldehydes by Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysts in an Aza-ene-type Reaction between Glyoxylate and Enecarbamate” Masahiro Terada, Kazuyo Soga, Norie Momiyama, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 4122-4125, DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800232

“Chirality Transfer in Gold-Catalyzed Carbothiolation of o-Alkynylphenyl 1-Arylethyl Sulfides” Itaru Nakamura, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada and Yoshinori Yamamoto, Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 2649–2651, DOI: 10.1021/ol8007556

“Theoretical Studies of 5-exo Selective Intramolecular Cyclization of O-Alkynylbenzoic Acid Catalyzed by Organic Base” Masahiro Terada, Chikashi Kanazawa, and Masahiro Yamanaka, Heterocycles, 2008, 74, 819-825, DOI: COM-07-S(W)73

“Synthesis of Multisubstituted 2-(Dihydrofuran-2(3H)-ylidene)acetates via Intramolecular Carboalkoxylation by Platinum−Olefin Catalyst System” Itaru Nakamura, Ching Siew Chan, Toshiharu Araki, Masahiro Terada, and Yoshinori Yamamoto, Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 309–312, DOI: 10.1021/ol702795u

“Enantioselective 1,4-Addition Reactions of Diphenyl Phosphite to Nitroalkenes Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine” Masahiro Terada, Takashi Ikehara, and Hitoshi Ube, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 14112–14113, DOI: 10.1021/ja0746619

“Aza-Henry reaction of ketimines catalyzed by guanidine and phosphazene bases” Nirmal K. Pahadi, Hitoshi Ube and Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 8700-8703, DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.10.016

“Thermally Induced [2+2] Cycloadditions of (Benzyloxymethylene)cyclopropane with Alkylidenemalononitriles” Itaru Nakamura, Ryoko Nagata, Tetsuya Nemoto, Masahiro Terada, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Thomas Späth, Armin de Meijere, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2007, 4479-4482, DOI:10.1002/ejoc.200700531

“Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Aza-Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Indoles” Masahiro Terada, Shigeko Yokoyama, Keiichi Sorimachi, Daisuke Uraguchi, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2007, 349, 1863-1867, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200700151

“Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of (ortho-Alkynylphenylthio)silanes: Intramolecular Capture of the Vinyl−Au Intermediate by the Silicon Electrophile” Itaru Nakamura, Takuma Sato, Masahiro Terada, and Yoshinori Yamamoto, Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 4081–4083, DOI: 10.1021/ol701951n

“Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Tandem Aza-Ene Type Reaction/Cyclization Cascade for a One-Pot Entry to Enantioenriched Piperidines” Masahiro Terada, Kyoko Machioka, and Keiichi Sorimachi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 10336–10337, DOI: 10.1021/ja0739584

“Organic-base-catalyzed synthesis of phthalides via highly regioselective intramolecular cyclization reaction” Chikashi Kanazawaa and Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Lett., 2006, 48, 933-935, DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.12.015

“Efficient synthetic protocol for substituted guanidines via copper(I)-mediated intermolecular amination of isothiourea derivatives” Hitoshi Ubea, Daisuke Uraguchia and Masahiro Terada, J. Organometallic Chem., 2007, 692, 545-549, DOI:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2006.06.046

“Enantioselective Friedel−Crafts Reaction of Electron-Rich Alkenes Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acid” Masahiro Terada and Keiichi Sorimachi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 292–293, DOI: 10.1021/ja0678166 [Most Cited Article Published in 2007 (ACS)]

“On the mechanism of stereoselection in direct Mannich reaction catalyzed by BINOL-derived phosphoric acids” Ilya D. Gridnev, Mitsuhiro Kouchi, Keiichi Sorimachi and Masahiro Terada, Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 497-500.

“Axially Chiral Guanidine as Highly Active and Enantioselective Catalyst for Electrophilic Amination of Unsymmetrically Substituted 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds” Masahiro Terada, Megumi Nakano, and Hitoshi Ube, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 16044–16045, DOI: 10.1021/ja066808m

“High Substrate/Catalyst Organocatalysis by a Chiral Brønsted Acid for an Enantioselective Aza-Ene-Type Reaction” Masahiro Terada, Kyoko Machioka, Keiichi Sorimachi, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 2254-2257, DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503477

“Axially Chiral Guanidine as Enantioselective Base Catalyst for 1,4-Addition Reaction of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds with Conjugated Nitroalkenes” Masahiro Terada, Hitoshi Ube, Yusuke Yaguchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 1454–1455, DOI: 10.1021/ja057848d

“Organocatalytic Asymmetric Direct Alkylation of α-Diazoester via C−H Bond Cleavage” Daisuke Uraguchi, Keiichi Sorimachi, and Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 9360-9361, DOI: 10.1021/ja051922a

“Organocatalytic Asymmetric Aza-Friedel−Crafts Alkylation of Furan, Daisuke Uraguchi, Keiichi Sorimachi, Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 11804-11805, DOI: 10.1021/ja046185h

“Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Direct Mannich Reactions via Electrophilic Activation, Daisuke Uraguchi, Masahiro Terada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 11804-11805, DOI: 10.1021/ja0491533