Hidehiro Sakurai (Professor)

Field of Expertise:

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Catalysis

Research Interests:

1. Synthesis and Properties of Buckybowl, a bowl-shaped non-planar aromatic compound
2. Development of metal nanoclusters catalyst

Recent Papers:

1. "Stereoelectronic Effect of Curved Aromatic Structure Favouring the Unexpected Endo Conformation of Benzylic Substituted Sumanene", S. Higashibayashi, S. Onogi, H. K. Srivastava, G. N. Sastry, Y.-T. Wu, H. Sakurai, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7314-7316.
2. Low-temperature Carbon–Chlorine Bond Activation by Bimetallic Gold/Palladium Alloy Nanoclusters: An Application to Ullmann Coupling", R. N. Dhital, C. Kamonsatikul, E. Somsook, K. Bobuatong, M. Ehara, S. Karanjit, H. Sakurai, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 20250-20253.
3. "Electonic Properties of Trifluoromethylated Corannulenes", B. M. Schmidt, S. Seki, B. Topolinski, K. Ohkubo, S. Fukuzumi, H. Sakurai, D. Lentz, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 11385-11388.
4. "Enantioselective synthesis of a chiral nitrogen-doped buckybowl", Q.-T. Tan, S. Higashibayashi, S. Karanjit, H. Sakurai, Nat. Commun. 3:891 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1896 (2012)
5. "Trimethylsumanene: Enantioselective Synthesis, Substituent Effect on Bowl Structure, Inversion Energy, and Electron Conductivity", S. Higashibayashi, R. Tsuruoka, Y. Soujanya, U. Purushotham, G. N. Sastry, S. Seki, T. Ishikawa, S. Toyota, H. Sakurai, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2012, 85, 450-467.
6. "Formal Lewis Acidic Character of Gold Nanocluster Catalyst", H. Sakurai, I. Kamiya, H. Kitahara, Pure Appl. Chem. 2010, 82, 2005-2016.
7. "Effect of Electronic Structures of Au Clusters Stabilized by Poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) on Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis", H. Tsunoyama, N. Ichikuni, H. Sakurai, T. Tsukuda, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7086-7093.
8. "Asymmetric Synthesis of a Chiral Buckybowl, Trimethylsumanene", S. Higashibayashi, H. Sakurai, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8592-8593.
9. "Structural Elucidation of Sumanene and Generation of Its Benzylic Anions", H. Sakurai, T. Daiko, H. Sakane, T. Amaya, T. Hirao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 11580-11581.
10. "Size-Specific Catalytic Activity of Polymer-Stabilized Gold Nanoclusters for Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation in Water", H. Tsunoyama, H. Sakurai, Y. Negishi, T. Tsukuda, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9374-9375.
11. "A Synthesis of Sumanene, a Fullerene Fragment", H. Sakurai, T. Daiko, T. Hirao, Science 2003, 301, 1878.

Contact Information:

Phone: 06-6879-4591
FAX: 06-6879-4593
E-mail: hsakurai + @chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Link:

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This page was last modified on 05 April 2018.