Organometallic Reaction Pathway ･ 3D Structures

• Open Dimer Participation in Chelation Controlled Addition of Methyllithium Dimer to a- and b-Alkoxy Aldehydes, Chem. Lett., 1079-1080 (1997).

• Theoretical Studies on the Addition of Polymetallic Lithium Organocuprate Clusters to Acetylene. Cooperative Effects of Metals in a Trap-and-Bite Reaction Pathway, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4887-4899 (1997).

• Reaction Pathway of the Conjugate Addition of Lithium Organocuprate Clusters to Acrolein, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4900-4910 (1997).

  -Animation of Reaction Pathway of Cuprate Conjugate Addition-

• Theoretical Studies on SN2-Reaction of MeBr with Me2CuLi･LiCl. Solvent and Cluster Effects on Oxidative Addition/Reductive Elimination Pathway, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 8273-8274 (1998).

• Theoretical Studies on Lewis Acid Acceleraton Simmons-Smith Reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 5844-5845 (1998).

• Theoretical Studies on Cyclopropanation Reaction with Lithium and Zinc Carbenoids, Chem. Lett. 927-928 (1998).

• Density Functional Studies on Conjugate Addition of (Me2CuLi)₂ to Cyclohexenone,Chem. Eur. J. 5, 1534-1543 (1999).

• Macrocarbocycle Synthesis by Copper- and Silver-mediated Cyclization of Tethered Cyclopropenone Acetals. Electronic Tuning of Metal Vinylcarbene Complex into Vinylmetallic Species, Org. Lett. 1, 407-409 (1999).

• Ligand Transfer Selectivity in Conjugate Addition of Mixed Organocuprate Bearing a Dummy Ligand, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 8941-8942 (1999).

• Synergetic Dimetallic Effects in Gaudemar/Normant Coupling between Allylzinc and Vinyl Grignard Reagents, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 8665-8666 (1999).

• Correlation of Coordination Geometry of Copper Atom to Reactivities of Organocuprate. Molecular Orbital Analysis of Dimethylcuprate anion, Tetrahedron Lett. 40, 5319-5322 (1999).

• Correlation of Reactivities of Organocuprate(I) and Zincate(II) with d-Orbital Energies of Ate Complexes, Tetrahedron 56. 2805-2809 (2000).

• Complexation of Lewis Acid with Trialkylcopper(III). On the Origin of BF₃-Acceleration of Cuprate Conjugate Addition, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122. 1826-1827 (2000).

• Mechanism of S_N2 Alkylation Reactions of Lithium Organocuprate Clusters with Alkyl Halides and Epoxides. Solvent effects, BF₃ Effects, and Trans-diaxial Epoxide Opening, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 7294-7307 (2000).

• Density Functional Studies on the Pauson-Khand Reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 1703-1708 (2001).

• Mechanism of C-H Bond Activation/C-C Bond Formation Reaction between Diazo Compound and Alkane Catalyzed by Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 7181-7192 (2002).