Asymmetric direct aldol reaction assisted by water and a proline‐derived tetrazole catalyst H Torii, M Nakadai, K Ishihara, S Saito, H Yamamoto Angewandte Chemie International Edition 43 (15), 1983-1986, 2004 | 674 | 2004 |
Design of acid− base catalysis for the asymmetric direct aldol reaction S Saito, H Yamamoto Accounts of chemical research 37 (8), 570-579, 2004 | 484 | 2004 |
Diversity-based strategy for discovery of environmentally benign organocatalyst: diamine–protonic acid catalysts for asymmetric direct aldol reaction M Nakadai, S Saito, H Yamamoto Tetrahedron 58 (41), 8167-8177, 2002 | 252 | 2002 |
Iron/amino acid catalyzed direct N‐alkylation of amines with alcohols Y Zhao, SW Foo, S Saito Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 50 (13), 3006, 2011 | 238 | 2011 |
RhI‐Catalyzed Hydration of Organonitriles under Ambient Conditions A Goto, K Endo, S Saito Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47 (19), 3607-3609, 2008 | 202 | 2008 |
O-nitroso aldol synthesis: Catalytic enantioselective route to α-aminooxy carbonyl compounds via enamine intermediate N Momiyama, H Torii, S Saito, H Yamamoto Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (15), 5374-5378, 2004 | 197 | 2004 |
Cross-coupling reaction of alcohols for carbon–carbon bond formation using pincer-type NHC/palladium catalysts O Kose, S Saito Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 8 (4), 896-900, 2010 | 139 | 2010 |
The Dual Role of Ruthenium and Alkali Base Catalysts in Enabling a Conceptually New Shortcut to N-Unsubstituted Pyrroles through Unmasked α-Amino Aldehydes K Iida, T Miura, J Ando, S Saito Organic letters 15 (7), 1436-1439, 2013 | 132 | 2013 |
Molecular design of a chiral Lewis acid for the asymmetric Claisen rearrangement K Maruoka, S Saito, H Yamamoto Journal of the American Chemical Society 117 (3), 1165-1166, 1995 | 127 | 1995 |
Virtually complete blocking of. alpha.,. beta.-unsaturated aldehyde carbonyls by complexation with aluminum tris (2, 6-diphenylphenoxide) K Maruoka, H Imoto, S Saito, H Yamamoto Journal of the American Chemical Society 116 (9), 4131-4132, 1994 | 126 | 1994 |
Conceptually new directed aldol condensation using aluminum tris (2, 6-diphenylphenoxide) S Saito, M Shiozawa, M Ito, H Yamamoto Journal of the American Chemical Society 120 (4), 813-814, 1998 | 123 | 1998 |
N-methylation of amines with methanol at room temperature VN Tsarev, Y Morioka, J Caner, Q Wang, R Ushimaru, A Kudo, H Naka, ... Organic letters 17 (10), 2530-2533, 2015 | 119 | 2015 |
Diamine-protonic acid catalysts for catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction S Saito, M Nakadai, H Yamamoto Synlett 2001 (08), 1245-1248, 2001 | 109 | 2001 |
Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using a Robust Multifunctional Iridium Complex toward the Selective Formation of Formic Acid K Kamada, J Jung, T Wakabayashi, K Sekizawa, S Sato, T Morikawa, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (23), 10261-10266, 2020 | 108 | 2020 |
Designer Lewis acid catalysts—bulky aluminium reagents for selective organic synthesis S Saito, H Yamamoto Chemical Communications, 1585-1592, 1997 | 98 | 1997 |
Catalytic hydrogenation of unactivated amides enabled by hydrogenation of catalyst precursor T Miura, IE Held, S Oishi, M Naruto, S Saito Tetrahedron Letters 54 (21), 2674-2678, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
Diboron-catalyzed dehydrative amidation of aromatic carboxylic acids with amines DN Sawant, DB Bagal, S Ogawa, K Selvam, S Saito Organic letters 20 (15), 4397-4400, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
Mixed Crossed Aldol Condensation between Conjugated Esters and Aldehydes Using Aluminum Tris (2, 6‐diphenylphenoxide) S Saito, M Shiozawa, H Yamamoto Angewandte Chemie International Edition 38 (12), 1769-1771, 1999 | 67 | 1999 |
Discrimination of two different ester carbonyls with methylaluminum bis (2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenoxide). Application to the regiocontrolled and stereocontrolled Diels … K Maruoka, S Saito, H Yamamoto Journal of the American Chemical Society 114 (3), 1089-1090, 1992 | 66 | 1992 |
Selective N‐Alkylation of Amines with Alcohols by Using Non‐Metal‐Based Acid–Base Cooperative Catalysis Y Du, S Oishi, S Saito Chemistry–A European Journal 17 (44), 12262-12267, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |