Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis
List of Publications
(2021 - present)
2024
Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Alireza Dehdari, Amirah S. Mat Lani, Derek A. Pratt, Shunsuke Chiba
Chem, 2024, 10.
Dedicated to Professor Koichi Narasaka on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Preprint uploaded to ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-4k222-v3
Giuseppe Nocera, Iain Robb, Kenneth F. Clark, Thomas M. McGuire, Laura Evans, Shunsuke Chiba and John A. Murphy
"Reductive activation of arenes by potassium metal with potassium salts"
Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11, 5099−5106.
Conghao Wang, Hiok Hian Ong, Shunsuke Chiba, Jagath C Rajapakse
"GLDM: hit molecule generation with constrained graph latent diffusion model"
Brief. Bioinform., 2024, 25, bbae142.
Yi Zhen Tan, Xiangyang Wu, Yunpeng Lu, Shunsuke Chiba and Edwin K. L. Yeow
"Towards catalytic redox–active iridium polypyridyl complex by in situ photosubstitution"
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, 14, 66−75.
Xianhai Tian, Yuliang Liu, Shahboz Yakubov, Jonathan Schütte, Shunsuke Chiba and Joshua P. Barham
"Photo− and electro−chemical strategies for the activations of strong chemical bonds"
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2024, 53, 263−316.
Itziar Guerrero, Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Yuliang Liu, Lee J. Edwards and Shunsuke Chiba
"Photoinduced Alkylation of Diazines with N–(Acyloxy)phthalimides in the Presence of Triethylamine"
Synthesis. 2024, 56, 3261–3276.
Part of the Special Issue PSRC-10 (10th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry).
Dedicated to Professor Shigeru Yamago on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Rémi Patouret, Ning Cham and Shunsuke Chiba
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202402050.
Preprint uploaded to ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-17wtz
2023
Nattawadee Chaisan, Eugene Yew Kun Tan and Shunsuke Chiba
"Hydroalkylation of 1,1–Diarylalkenes Mediated by Magnesium Hydride in Ethereal Solvents"
Helv. Chim. Acta. 2023, e202300212.
Dedicated to Professor Alois Fürstner, President of the 56th Bürgenstock Conference.
Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Amirah S. Mat Lani, Wayne Sow, Yuliang Liu, Haoyu Li and Shunsuke Chiba
"Photoinduced dearomatization of (hetero)arenes catalyzed by polysulfide anions"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62(40), e202309764.
Dedicated to Professor Dennis P. Curran on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Preprint uploaded to ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-kccqn
Yihang Li, Jiahua Chen, Jaslyn Jing Wen Ng and Shunsuke Chiba
“Generation of Allylmagnesium Reagents by Hydromagnesiation of 2−Aryl−1,3−dienes”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62(10), e202217735.
Dedicated to Professor Mukund Sibi on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
2022
Yohshiya Sekiguchi, Jia Hao Pang, Jia Sheng Ng, Jiahua Chen, Kohei Watanabe, Ryo Takita and Shunsuke Chiba
“Base−induced dehydrogenative and dearomative transformation of 1−naphthylmethylamines to 1,4−dihydronaphthalene−1−carbonitriles”
JACS Au 2022, 2, 2758−2764.
Yuliang Liu, Haoyu Li, Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Erik Budi Santiko, Youhei Chitose, Manabu Abe and Shunsuke Chiba
“Pyrrolo[2,1−a]isoquinolines as multitasking organophotocatalysts in chemical synthesis”
Chem. Catal. 2022, 2, 2726−2749.
Jiahua Chen, Jun Wei Lim and Shunsuke Chiba
"Interception of enamine intermediates in reductive functionalization of lactams by sodium hydride: Synthesis of 2−cyano−3−iodo piperidines and pyrrolidines"
Tetrahedron 2022, 114, 132779.
Invited contribution to the special issue in honor of Prof. Franziska Schoenebeck, Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award 2022.
Derek Yiren Ong, Jia Hao Pang and Shunsuke Chiba
“Sodium and potassium complexes in organic synthesis”
In Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV, G. Parkin, K. Meyer, D. O'Hare (eds.); Kidlington, UK: Elsevier, 2022, Vol. [1], pp. 57−77.
Haoyu Li and Shunsuke Chiba
“Harnessing triplet states of aryl halides for copper−mediated cross−coupling”
Nat. Synth. 2022, 1, 339−340
News & Views.
Haoyu Li, Shunsuke Chiba
Chem Catalysis, 2022, 2(5), 1128−1142.
Jiahua Chen, Jun Wei Lim, Derek Yiren Ong and Shunsuke Chiba
"Iterative addition of carbon nucleophiles to N,N−dialkyl carboxamides for synthesis of α-tertiary amines"
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 99−104.
Kohei Watanabe, Jia Hao Pang, Ryo Takita and Shunsuke Chiba
"Generation of organo−alkaline earth metal complexes from non−polar unsaturated molecules and their synthetic applications"
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 27−38.
Perspective.
2021
Haoyu Li, Yuliang Liu and Shunsuke Chiba
"Leveraging of sulfur anions in photoinduced molecular transformations"
JACS Au. 2021, 1, 2121−2129.
Perspective.
Jia Hao Pang, Derek Yiren Ong and Shunsuke Chiba
“C2 amination of pyridine with primary amines mediated by sodium hydride in the presence of lithium iodide”
Org. Synth. 2021, 98, 363−373.
Jia Hao Pang, Bin Wang, Kohei Watanabe, Ryo Takita, and Shunsuke Chiba
“Hydroalkylation of Styrenes with Benzylamines by Potassium Hydride”
Helv. Chim. Acta. 2021, 104, e2100120.
Dedicated to Professor E. Peter Kündig in celebration of his 75th birthday.
Yi Zhen Tan, Xiangyang Wu, Thanh Nhut Do, Hoang Long Nguyen, Howe−Siang Tan, Shunsuke Chiba, and Edwin K. L. Yeow
“Electron transfer quenching of rhodamine 6G by N−methylpyrrole is an unproductive process in the photocatalytic heterobiaryl cross–coupling reaction”
J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 8550−8557.
Yihang Li, Jia Sheng Ng, Bin Wang, and Shunsuke Chiba
“Synthesis of α−alkynylnitrones via hydromagnesiation of 1,3−enynes with magnesium hydride”
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 13, 5060–5064.
Haoyu Li, Yuliang Liu, and Shunsuke Chiba
“Anti–Markovnikov hydroarylation of alkenes via polysulfide anions photocatalysis”
Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 6264–6267.
Haoyu Li and Shunsuke Chiba
"Thiolate photocatalysis enables radical borylation of reductively inert aryl electrophiles"
Chem 2021, 7, 1414−1416.
Previews, invited contribution.
Yuliang Liu, Haoyu Li, and Shunsuke Chiba
“Photoinduced Cross–Coupling of Aryl Iodides with Alkenes”
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 2, 427–432.
Haoyu Li, Xinxin Tang, Jia Hao Pang, Xiangyang Wu, Edwin K. L. Yeow, Jie Wu, Shunsuke Chiba
“Polysulfide anions as visible light photoredox catalysts for aryl cross–couplings”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 481–487.
Preprint uploaded to ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13083887.v1
Bin Wang, Yihang Li, Jia Hao Pang, Kohei Watanabe, Ryo Takita, and Shunsuke Chiba
“Hydromagnesiation of 1,3–enynes by magnesium hydride for synthesis of tri– and tetra–substituted allenes”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 217–221.
Selected as Hot Paper by the Editors of ACIE.
Xiao−Lin Lu, Bin Wang and Shunsuke Chiba
In Science of Synthesis: Free Radicals: Fundamentals and Applications in Organic Synthesis 1, ed. by L. Fensterbank and C. Ollivier; Thieme, Stuttgart, 2021, Vol. 1, pp273.