Tohru Yokozawa

trans-[RuCl2(phosphane)2(1,2-diamine)] and Chiraltrans-[RuCl2(diphosphane)(1,2-diamine)]: Shelf-Stable Precatalysts for the Rapid, Productive, and Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones

Henri Doucet, Takeshi Ohkuma, Kunihiko Murata et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1998 · 628 citations

New Chiral Diphosphine Ligands Designed to have a Narrow Dihedral Angle in the Biaryl Backbone

Takao Saito, Tohru Yokozawa, Takero Ishizaki et al. · Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis · 2001 · 452 citations

Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry +18

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Alkenyl, Cyclopropyl, and Aryl Ketones. RuCl₂(xylbinap)(1,2-diamine) as a Precatalyst Exhibiting a Wide Scope

Takeshi Ohkuma, Masatoshi Koizumi, Henri Doucet et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1998 · 401 citations

Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Wide Scope +13

Selective Hydrogenation of Benzophenones to Benzhydrols. Asymmetric Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diarylmethanols

Takeshi Ohkuma, Masatoshi Koizumi, Hideyuki Ikehira et al. · Organic Letters · 2000 · 187 citations

Selective Hydrogenation, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +15

Practical Enantioselective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Biaryl Diphosphonates and Dicarboxylates by Cationic Rhodium(I)/Segphos-Catalyzed Double [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition

Goushi Nishida, Shuichiro Ogaki, Yukinori Yusa et al. · Organic Letters · 2008 · 63 citations