Youhei Tanaka

<i>syn</i>‐Selective and Enantioselective Direct Cross‐Aldol Reactions between Aldehydes Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Amino Sulfonamide

Taichi Kano, Yukako Yamaguchi, Youhei Tanaka et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2007 · 139 citations

Cross-coupling Reaction, Engineering, Biochemistry +13

<i>e</i><i>xo</i>-Selective Asymmetric Diels−Alder Reaction Catalyzed by Diamine Salts as Organocatalysts

Taichi Kano, Youhei Tanaka, Keiji Maruoka · Organic Letters · 2006 · 121 citations

Chemical Engineering, Novel Binaphthyl-based Diamine, Engineering +12

Catalytic enantioselective construction of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters by an organocatalytic Diels–Alder reaction of α-substituted α,β-unsaturated aldehydes

Taichi Kano, Youhei Tanaka, Kenta Osawa et al. · Chemical Communications · 2009 · 68 citations

Development of a Recyclable Fluorous Chiral Phase-Transfer Catalyst:  Application to the Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Amino Acids

Seiji Shirakawa, Youhei Tanaka, Keiji Maruoka · Organic Letters · 2004 · 60 citations

Asymmetric organocatalytic oxy-Michael addition of alcohols to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes

Taichi Kano, Youhei Tanaka, Keiji Maruoka · Tetrahedron · 2007 · 58 citations

Novel Organocatalysts, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, β-Unsaturated Aldehydes +3