Naoki Asai

Cyclostellettamines A-F, pyridine alkaloids which inhibit binding of methyl quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, from the marine sponge, Stelletta maxima

Nobuhiro Fusetani, Naoki Asai, Shigeki Matsunaga et al. · Tetrahedron Letters · 1994 · 111 citations

Stelletta Maxima, Biochemistry, Pyridine Alkaloids +8

Pladienolides, New Substances from Culture of Streptomyces platensis Mer-11107 II. Physico-chemical Properties and Structure Elucidation

Takashi Sakai, Naoki Asai, Akifumi Okuda et al. · The Journal of Antibiotics · 2004 · 92 citations · Full text

Total Synthesis of the Potent Antitumor Macrolides Pladienolide B and D

Regina Mikie Kanada, Daisuke Itoh, Mitsuo Nagai et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2007 · 91 citations

Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Heterocyclic +15

Two sesquiterpene isocyanides and a sesquiterpene thiocyanate from the marine sponge Acanthella cf. cavernosa and the Nudibranch Phyllidia ocellata

Nobuhiro Fusetani, H.J. Wolstenholme, Katsumi Shinoda et al. · Tetrahedron Letters · 1992 · 63 citations

Biology, Marine Biotechnology, Engineering +6

Commercial Manufacture of Halaven®: Chemoselective Transformations En Route to Structurally Complex Macrocyclic Ketones

Francis G. Fang, Brian C. Austad, Trevor L. Calkins et al. · Synlett · 2013 · 62 citations

Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Heterocycle Chemistry +17