Yasuhiro Kawanami

New ligands double the scope of the catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins

K. Barry Sharpless, Willi M. Amberg, Matthias Beller et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1991 · 230 citations

Catalytic Asymmetric Dihydroxylation, Engineering, Alkene Metathesis +12

Asymmetric alkylation of carboxyamides by using trans-2,5-disubstituted pyrrolidines as chiral auxiliaries

Yasuhiro Kawanami, Yoshio Ito, Toshiyuki Kitagawa et al. · Tetrahedron Letters · 1984 · 123 citations

Engineering, Chiral Auxiliaries, Asymmetric Alkylation +8

Synthesis of Thiol Esters by Carboxylic Trichlorobenzoic Anhydrides

Yasuhiro Kawanami, Yuichiro Dainobu, Junji Inanaga et al. · Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan · 1981 · 61 citations · Full text

Carboxylic Acid, Thiol Esters, Engineering +8

Imprinted polymer catalysts for the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate

Yasuhiro Kawanami, Toshiaki Yunoki, Akira Nakamura et al. · Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical · 1999 · 37 citations

Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Polymer Science +7

Practical enantioselective reduction of ketones using oxazaborolidine catalyst generated in situ from chiral lactam alcohol and borane

Yasuhiro Kawanami, Shinichi Murao, Takahiko Ohga et al. · Tetrahedron · 2003 · 32 citations

Oxazaborolidine Catalyst, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +8