2014
“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.
