Hirofumi Matsunaga

Asymmetric ring opening of meso-epoxides catalyzed by the chiral phosphine oxide BINAPO

Eisuke Tokuoka, Shunsuke Kotani, Hirofumi Matsunaga et al. · Tetrahedron Asymmetry · 2005 · 85 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, Engineering, Organic Chemistry +7

Synthetic utility of five-membered heterocycles—chiral functionalization and applications

Hirofumi Matsunaga, Tadao Ishizuka, Takehisa Kunieda · Tetrahedron · 2005 · 59 citations

Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Synthetic Utility +3

A Bicyclic N-Heterocyclic Carbene as a Bulky but Accessible Ligand: Application to the Copper-Catalyzed Borylations of Aryl Halides

Shin Ando, Hirofumi Matsunaga, Tadao Ishizuka · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2015 · 48 citations

Highly efficient asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by chiral ‘roofed’ cis-diamine–Ru(II) complex

Hirofumi Matsunaga, Tadao Ishizuka, Takehisa Kunieda · Tetrahedron Letters · 2005 · 40 citations

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chiral ‘ +8

Sterically congested ‘roofed’ 2-thiazolines as new chiral ligands for copper(II)-catalyzed asymmetric Diels–Alder reactions

Manabu Yamakuchi, Hirofumi Matsunaga, Ryoh Tokuda et al. · Tetrahedron Letters · 2005 · 39 citations

Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Coordination Complex +8