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Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 9725–9730. - Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-type Reaction of Alkylamides
Fernando Arteaga Arteaga, Zijian Liu, Lennart Brewitz, Jianyang Chen, Bo Sun, Naoya Kumagai,* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 2391–2394. - Preparation of Nd/Na Heterogeneous Catalyst from Bench-Stable and Inexpensive Nd Salt for an anti-Selective Catalytic Asymmetric Nitroaldol Reaction
Akihito Nonoyama, Kazuki Hashimoto, Akira Saito, Naoya Kumagai,* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
Tetrahedron Lett. 2016, 57, 1815–1819. - Electrophilic Activation of α,β-Unsaturated Amides; Catalytic Asymmetric Vinylogous Conjugate Addition of Unsaturated γ-Butyrolactones
Ming Zhang, Naoya Kumagai,* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 5525–5529. - Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-type Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated γ-Butyrolactam to Ketimines
Shaoquan Lin, Naoya Kumagai,* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 3296–3299. - Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Activation of Non-Heteroaromatic Amides in Atom Economical Asymmetric Catalysis
Naoya Kumagai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 15192–15200. - Career in Catalysis: Masakatsu Shibasaki
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ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 4699–4709.
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