| Nonenzymatic kinetic resolution of racemic alcohols through an “induced fit” process T Kawabata, M Nagato, K Takasu, K Fuji Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (13), 3169-3170, 1997 | 345 | 1997 |
| Auto‐Tandem Catalysis: A Single Catalyst Activating Mechanistically Distinct Reactions in a Single Reactor N Shindoh, Y Takemoto, K Takasu Chemistry–A European Journal 15 (45), 12168-12179, 2009 | 286 | 2009 |
| A practical catalytic method for preparing highly substituted cyclobutanes and cyclobutenes K Inanaga, K Takasu, M Ihara Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (11), 3668-3669, 2005 | 167 | 2005 |
| Enhanced rate and selectivity by carboxylate salt as a basic cocatalyst in chiral N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed asymmetric acylation of secondary alcohols S Kuwano, S Harada, B Kang, R Oriez, Y Yamaoka, K Takasu, K Yamada Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (31), 11485-11488, 2013 | 135 | 2013 |
| Auto-tandem catalysis in the synthesis of substituted quinolines from Aldimines and electron-rich olefins: Cascade Povarov− Hydrogen-transfer reaction N Shindoh, H Tokuyama, Y Takemoto, K Takasu The Journal of Organic Chemistry 73 (19), 7451-7456, 2008 | 133 | 2008 |
| Rhodacyanine dyes as antimalarials. 1. Preliminary evaluation of their activity and toxicity K Takasu, H Inoue, HS Kim, M Suzuki, T Shishido, Y Wataya, M Ihara Journal of medicinal chemistry 45 (5), 995-998, 2002 | 125 | 2002 |
| Gold (I)-catalyzed polycyclizations of polyenyne-type anilines based on hydroamination and consecutive hydroarylation cascade K Hirano, Y Inaba, K Takasu, S Oishi, Y Takemoto, N Fujii, H Ohno The Journal of Organic Chemistry 76 (21), 9068-9080, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| Catalytic (2+ 2)-cycloaddition reactions of silyl enol ethers. A convenient and stereoselective method for cyclobutane ring formation K Takasu, M Ueno, K Inanaga, M Ihara The Journal of Organic Chemistry 69 (2), 517-521, 2004 | 104 | 2004 |
| Thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric formal [3+ 2] cycloaddition of azomethine ylides with nitroolefins J Xie, K Yoshida, K Takasu, Y Takemoto Tetrahedron Letters 49 (48), 6910-6913, 2008 | 103 | 2008 |
| Rapid Assembly of Polycyclic Substances by a Multicomponent Cascade (4+ 2)−(2+ 2) Cycloadditions: Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Paesslerin A K Inanaga, K Takasu, M Ihara Journal of the American Chemical Society 126 (5), 1352-1353, 2004 | 95 | 2004 |
| Helical nanographenes embedded with contiguous azulene units N Ogawa, Y Yamaoka, H Takikawa, K Yamada, K Takasu Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (31), 13322-13327, 2020 | 90 | 2020 |
| Prediction and interpretable visualization of retrosynthetic reactions using graph convolutional networks S Ishida, K Terayama, R Kojima, K Takasu, Y Okuno Journal of chemical information and modeling 59 (12), 5026-5033, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Catalytic imino Diels–Alder reaction by triflic imide and its application to one-pot synthesis from three components K Takasu, N Shindoh, H Tokuyama, M Ihara Tetrahedron 62 (51), 11900-11907, 2006 | 76 | 2006 |
| Convenient synthesis of substituted piperidinones from α, β-unsaturated amides: formal synthesis of deplancheine, tacamonine, and paroxetine K Takasu, N Nishida, A Tomimura, M Ihara The Journal of organic chemistry 70 (10), 3957-3962, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| Kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acids. S Harada, S Kuwano, Y Yamaoka, K Yamada, K Takasu Angewandte Chemie 125 (39), 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Hydroxyl group-directed organocatalytic asymmetric Michael addition of α, β-unsaturated ketones with alkenylboronic acids T Inokuma, K Takasu, T Sakaeda, Y Takemoto* Organic Letters 11 (11), 2425-2428, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| Synthesis of three classes of rhodacyanine dyes and evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity K Pudhom, K Kasai, H Terauchi, H Inoue, M Kaiser, R Brun, M Ihara, ... Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 14 (24), 8550-8563, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Development of a Brønsted acid-promoted Arene–Ynamide Cyclization toward the total syntheses of Marinoquinolines A and C and aplidiopsamine A Y Yamaoka, T Yoshida, M Shinozaki, K Yamada, K Takasu The Journal of Organic Chemistry 80 (2), 957-964, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Catalyst-controlled torquoselectivity switch in the 4π ring-opening reaction of 2-amino-2-azetines giving β-substituted α, β-unsaturated amidines N Shindoh, K Kitaura, Y Takemoto, K Takasu Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (22), 8470-8473, 2011 | 62 | 2011 |
| Asymmetric intramolecular aza-Michael reaction using environmentally friendly organocatalysis K Takasu, S Maiti, M Ihara Heterocycles 59 (1), 51-55, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
