Takeo Konakahara

InBr₃-Promoted Divergent Approach to Polysubstituted Indoles and Quinolines from 2-Ethynylanilines: Switch from an Intramolecular Cyclization to an Intermolecular Dimerization by a Type of Terminal Substituent Group

Norio Sakai, Kimiyoshi Annaka, Akiko Fujita et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2008 · 206 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +14

An Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Ethers:  A Directly Reductive Deoxygenation of Esters Using an InBr₃/Et₃SiH Catalytic System

Norio Sakai, Toshimitsu Moriya, Takeo Konakahara · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2007 · 160 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +10

An Unprecedented Approach to 4,5-Disubstituted Pyrimidine Derivatives by a ZnCl₂-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling Reaction

Toshiaki Sasada, Fuminori Kobayashi, Norio Sakai et al. · Organic Letters · 2009 · 138 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +9

Highly selective conversion of nitrobenzenes using a simple reducing system combined with a trivalent indium salt and a hydrosilane

Norio Sakai, Kohji Fujii, Shinya Nabeshima et al. · Chemical Communications · 2010 · 120 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +9

Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction of Terminal Alkynes with Aryl Iodides in the Presence of Indium Tribromide and Its Application to a One-Pot Synthesis of 2-Phenylindole

Norio Sakai, Kimiyoshi Annaka, Takeo Konakahara · Organic Letters · 2004 · 112 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +12