Recent Works
2024/11
A paper entitled “Total Syntheses of β- and γ-Naphthocyclinones” was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., which was featured in Synfacts.
2024/10
A paper entitled “Facile synthetic route to isoxazoles from β-sulfinyl- and β-sulfonyl-cyclohexenones via regioselective nitrile oxide cycloaddition and in-situ elimination” was published in Tetrahedron Lett..
2024/6
A paper entitled “One-Pot Synthesis of Functionalized Benzotropones via a Phthalide Ring-Opening/Intramolecular Aldol Condensation Cascade” was published in Org. Lett..
2023/12
A paper entitled “Total Syntheses of Sparsomycin and Sparoxomycins A1 and A2 via Sulfenate-Anion-Mediated Iterative C–S Bond Formation” was published in Org. Lett..
2023/11
A paper entitled “Diastereoselective Access to anti-β-Hydroxy Sulfoxides from Chiral Epoxides and Prochiral Sulfenate Anions: Mechanistic Insights, Scope, and Limitation” was published in Synlett.
2023/8
A paper entitled “Study on Integrated Synthesis of Dimeric Pyranonaphthoquinones: Preparation of Versatile Synthetic Intermediate and Conversion into ent-Hemi-actinorhodin and ent-Hemi-γ-actinorhodin” was published in Synlett.
2023/8
A paper entitled “Photochemical Reaction of 1,2-Naphthoquinone toward Enantioselective Synthesis of γ-Rubromycin: Viability Dependence on Chromophore” was published in Synlett.
2023/5
A paper entitled “Stereospecific naphthoquinone photoredox reactions: Total syntheses of spirocyclic natural products” was published in Tetrahedron.
2022/12
A paper entitled “Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Preussomerins: Control of Spiroacetal Stereogenicity by Photochemical Reaction of a Naphthoquinone through 1,6-Hydrogen Atom Transfer” was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., which was featured in Synfacts.
2022/9
A paper entitled “De novo synthesis of dimerization-ready flavan unit via intramolecular Pummerer/Friedel–Crafts cascade” was published in Org. Biomol. Chem..
2022/5
A paper entitled “Total Synthesis of Parameritannin A2, a Branched Epicatechin Tetramer with Two Double Linkages” was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., which was selected as a VIP Paper.
2022/2
A paper entitled “Total Synthesis and Structure Assignment of Saptomycin H” was published in Org. Lett., which was selected as Editor’s Choice.
2021/10
A paper entitled “Group-Selective Approaches to Complex Natural Product Synthesis: Three Examples of Diastereotopos-Selective Reactions” was published in Synlett.
2021/09
A paper entitled “Synthetic Study on Carthamin, Part 4. Improved Synthesis of a C-Glycosyl Quinochalcone by Installation of a Side Chain through Regioselective De-O-methylation and Acyl Rearrangement” was published in Synlett.
2021/05
A paper entitled “Model Study toward Total Synthesis of Dimeric Pyranonaphthoquinones: Synthesis of Hemi-Actinorhodin” was published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., which was featured as a Selected Paper.
2021/02
A paper entitled “Photoredox Reaction of Naphthoquinone C‐Glycoside Revisited: Insight into Stereochemical Aspect” was published in Helv. Chim. Acta.
2021/01
A paper entitled “Synthetic Study on Acremoxanthone A, Part 2: Model Study on the EFG Xanthone Moiety through a Nitrile Oxide Cycloaddition–SNAr Sequence” was published in Synlett.
2020/09
A paper entitled “Thiolate-mediated Reductive Cyclizations: Scope, Limitation and Novel Mechanistic Insights” was published in Chem. Lett., which was selected as Editor’s Choice.
2020/07
A paper entitled “Synthetic Study on Lactonamycins, Part 2: Stereoselective Access to ABCD-Ring System” was published in Synlett.
2020/04
A paper entitled “Intramolecular Benzyne–Phenolate [4+2] Cycloadditions” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed..
2020/03
A paper entitled “Synthesis of Enantiopure C2-Symmetric Anthracenophane and Dimerization En Route to Multiple-Bridged Cyclophanes” was published in Org. Lett..
2020/02
A paper entitled “Toward Pluramycins with Epoxy Side Chain: Syntheses of Kidamycinone and Epoxykidamycinone (Saptomycinone H)” was published in Chem. Asian J..
2019/12
A paper entitled “Hydroxylamine-Mediated Anthrapyranone Formation, Solving 5‐exo/6-endo Issue toward Synthesis of Pluramycin-Class Antibiotics ” was published in Org. Lett..
2019/10
A paper entitled “Syntheses of doubly linked proanthocyanidins using free flavan units as nucleophiles: insight into the origin of the high regioselectivity of annulation” was published in Org. Bimol. Chem..
2019/10
A paper entitled “α-L-Vancosamine Aryl C-Glycosides, Less Stable Anomers: A Problem in Synthesis of Pluramycin-Class Antibiotics” was published in Heterocycles.
2019/08
A paper entitled “Stereochemical Dichotomy in Two Competing Cascade Processes: Total Syntheses of Both Enantiomers of Spiroxin A” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed..
2019/03
A paper entitled “Total Synthesis of Carthamin, a Traditional Natural Red Pigment” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed.., which was selected as Hot Papers.
2019/03
A paper entitled “Total Synthesis of Actinorhodin” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed..
2019/03
A paper entitled “Synthesis of Oxygenated ortho-Methylbenzaldehydes via Aryne [2+2] Cycloaddition and Benzocyclobutenol Ring Opening” was published in CHIMIA.
2019/03
A paper entitled “2-Bromo-6-(chlorodiisopropylsilyl)phenyl tosylate as an efficient platform for intramolecular benzyne-diene [4 + 2] cycloaddition” was published in Chem. Sci..
2019/01
A paper entitled “General Synthetic Approach to Rotenoids via Stereospecific, Group-Selective 1,2-Rearrangement and Dual SNAr Cyclizations of Aryl Fluorides” was published in Synthesis.
2018/08
A review entitled “Aryne-based strategy in the total synthesis of naturally occurring polycyclic compounds” was published in Chem. Soc. Rev..
2018/08
A minireview entitled “Photoredox Reactions of Quinones” was published in Chem. Eur. J..
2018/06
The paper entitled “Model Reactions for the Enantioselective Synthesis of γ-Rubromycin: Stereospecific Intramolecular Photoredox Cyclization of an ortho-Quinone Ether to a Spiroacetal” was published in Org. Lett..
2018/06
The paper entitled “Total Syntheses of Pusilatins A–C, Liverwort-Derived Macrocyclic Bisbibenzyl Dimers” was published in Org. Lett..
2018/06
The paper entitled “Intramolecular photoredox reactions of 1,2-naphthoquinone derivatives” was published in Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett..
2018/05
The paper entitled” Total Synthesis of Bis-anthraquinone Antibiotic BE-43472B” was published in Synthesis.
2018/05
The paper entitled “Total Synthesis of Selligueain A, a Sweet Flavan Trimer” was published in Org. Lett..
2018/04
The paper entitled “First Total Synthesis of Oxirapentyn D, a Highly Oxidized Chromene Natural Product” was published in Synlett.
2018/01
The paper entitled “Total Synthesis of Aryl C-Glycoside Natural Products: Strategies and Tactics” was published in Chem. Rev..
2017/08
The paper entitled “First Total Syntheses of Tetracenomycins C and X” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed., which was featured in Nature Reviews Chemistry and Synfacts.
2017/08
The paper entitled “Stereospecificity in Intramolecular Photoredox Reactions of Naphthoquinones: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Spiroxin C” was published in Angew. Chem. int. Ed., which was featured in Synfacts.
2017/07
The paper entitled “Preparation of 2-Substituted 3-Methoxycarbonyl-4-methoxyfurans that Allow Access to Highly Functionalized Naphthalenes via Regioselective Cycloaddition with Alkoxybenzyne” was published in Synlett.
2017/06
The paper entitled “Oxidative Ring Opening of Benzocyclobutenone Oximes: Novel Access to Stable Nitrile Oxides” was published in Chem. Lett., which was selected as a Editor’s Choice.
2017/05
The paper entitled “Intramolecular Photoredox Reaction of Naphthoquinone Derivatives” was published in Synlett.
2017/03
The paper entitled “Enantioselective Access to Bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienone Skeleton: Total Syntheses of (+)-Engelharquinone and Its Epoxide” was published in Org. Lett..
2017/02
The paper entitled “Total Syntheses of Atrovenetin and Atrovenetinone: A Naphthalene-Annulation Approach to a Discoid Tricycle Using Allenic Acid” was published in Synlett.
2017/02
The paper entitled Synthetic Study on Carthamin. 2. Stereoselective Approach to C-Glycosyl Quinochalcone via Desymmetrization” was published in Org. Lett..
2016/12
The paper entitled “Stereocontrolled Total Syntheses of (−)-Rotenone and (−)-Dalpanol by 1,2-Rearrangement and SNAr Oxycyclizations” was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed..
2016/09
The paper entitled “Synthetic Study on Acremoxanthone A: Construction of Bicyclo[3.2.2]nonane CD Skeleton and Fusion of AB Rings” was published in Synlett, which was selected for the cover of Synlett.
2016/09
The paper entitled “Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Ardimerin, and Proposal for its Structural Revision” was published in Helv. Chim. Acta..
2016/08
The paper entitled “Total Synthesis of (+)-Vicenin-2” was published in Org. Lett., which was selected as a Editor’s Choice
2016/08
The paper entitled “Pleospdione, A Tricyclic Natural Product with Dense Oxygenation at the A-Ring: Total Synthesis and Incongruity of the Originally Assigned Structure and its C3-Epimer” was published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., which was selected as a BCSJ Award Article.
2016/07
The paper entitled “Synthesis of β-Hydroxynaphthoate Derivatives from Ketodioxinones via Benzyne Acyl-Alkylation and Aldol Condensation Cascade” was published in Synthesis.
2016/07
The paper entitled “Synthetic Study on Carthamin: Problem and Solution for Oxidative Dearomatization Approach to Quinol C-Glycoside” was published in Synlett.
2016/06
The paper entiteled “Facile Synthesis of Stereodefined α-Iodovinyl Sulfoxides, Versatile Platform to Trisubstituted Olefins” was published in Synlett.
2016/03
The paper entitled “First Total Synthesis of Dermocanarin 2” was published in Synlett.
2016/03
The paper entitled “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Planar Chiral Carba-Paracyclophanes via Modular Assembly” was published inSynlett.
