Akira Yoshikoshi

Pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate. A mild and efficient catalyst for the tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols

Masaaki Miyashita, Akira Yoshikoshi, Paul A. Grieco · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1977 · 747 citations

Chemical Engineering, Chemical Measurement, Engineering +14

The organoselenium-mediated reduction of α,β-epoxy ketones, α,β-epoxy esters, and their congeners to β-hydroxy carbonyl compounds: Novel methodologies for the synthesis of aldols and their analogues

Masaaki Miyashita, Toshio Suzuki, M. HOSHINO et al. · Tetrahedron · 1997 · 109 citations

β-Epoxy Esters, Engineering, Biochemistry +6

Oxoalkylation of carbonyl compounds with conjugated nitro olefins

Akira Yoshikoshi, Masaaki Miyashita · Accounts of Chemical Research · 1985 · 106 citations

Carbonyl Compounds, Derivative (Chemistry), Molecular Sciences +13

New 1,4-diketone synthesis using nitroolefins and trimethylsilyl enol ethers. A convenient regiospecific route to cyclopentenones

Masaaki Miyashita, Tetsuji Yanami, Akira Yoshikoshi · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1976 · 103 citations

Derivative (Chemistry), Engineering, Heterocyclic +12

Organoselenium-mediated reduction of α,β-epoxy ketones to β-hydroxy ketones: A new access to inter- and intramolecular aldols

Masaaki Miyashita, Toshio Suzuki, Akira Yoshikoshi · Tetrahedron Letters · 1987 · 96 citations

Engineering, Biochemistry, β-Hydroxy Ketones +6