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Akira Sakakura

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77

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Active since

1960

Affiliations

Nagoya University(Current)

Okayama University

University of Tsukuba

Aichi University of Education

Nippon Steel (Japan)

Akira Sakakura is an author at Nagoya University specializing in engineering, organic chemistry, and chemistry.

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EngineeringOrganic ChemistryChemistryCatalysisNatural SciencesBiomolecular EngineeringChemical EngineeringBiochemistryPharmacologyDiversity-oriented Synthesis

Publications per year

1960–2021

77

Publications

77

Enantioselective halocyclization of polyprenoids induced by nucleophilic phosphoramidites

Akira Sakakura, Atsushi Ukai, Kazuaki Ishihara · Nature · 2007 · 412 citations

Heterocyclic, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry +3

Widely Useful DMAP-Catalyzed Esterification under Auxiliary Base- and Solvent-Free Conditions

Akira Sakakura, Kimio Kawajiri, Takuro Ohkubo et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2007 · 231 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +12

Cooperative Activation with Chiral Nucleophilic Catalysts and <i>N</i>‐Haloimides: Enantioselective Iodolactonization of 4‐Arylmethyl‐4‐pentenoic Acids

Hidefumi Nakatsuji, Yasuhiro Sawamura, Akira Sakakura et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2014 · 133 citations

Chiral 1,1‘-Binaphthyl-2,2‘-diammonium Salt Catalysts for the Enantioselective Diels−Alder Reaction with α-Acyloxyacroleins

Akira Sakakura, Kenji Suzuki, Kazuhiko Nakano et al. · Organic Letters · 2006 · 120 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, A Diammonium Salt, Engineering +10

Bulky Diarylammonium Arenesulfonates as Selective Esterification Catalysts

Kazuaki Ishihara, Shoko Nakagawa, Akira Sakakura · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · 120 citations

Bulky Diarylammonium Arenesulfonates, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +11

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