| Palladium-catalyzed dehydrohalogenative polycondensation of 2-bromo-3-hexylthiophene: an efficient approach to head-to-tail poly (3-hexylthiophene) Q Wang, R Takita, Y Kikuzaki, F Ozawa Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (33), 11420-11421, 2010 | 396 | 2010 |
| Asymmetric alkynylation of aldehydes catalyzed by an In (III)/BINOL complex R Takita, K Yakura, T Ohshima, M Shibasaki Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (40), 13760-13761, 2005 | 295 | 2005 |
| Design, generation, and synthetic application of borylzincate: borylation of aryl halides and borylzincation of benzynes/terminal alkyne Y Nagashima, R Takita, K Yoshida, K Hirano, M Uchiyama Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (50), 18730-18733, 2013 | 169 | 2013 |
| Enantioselective total synthesis of (−)-strychnine using the catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction and tandem cyclization T Ohshima, Y Xu, R Takita, S Shimizu, D Zhong, M Shibasaki Journal of the American Chemical Society 124 (49), 14546-14547, 2002 | 157 | 2002 |
| A new entry in catalytic alkynylation of aldehydes and ketones: dual activation of soft nucleophiles and hard electrophiles by an indium (III) catalyst R Takita, Y Fukuta, R Tsuji, T Ohshima, M Shibasaki Organic Letters 7 (7), 1363-1366, 2005 | 149 | 2005 |
| Catalytic asymmetric michael reaction of β-keto esters: Effects of the linker heteroatom in linked-BINOL K Majima, R Takita, A Okada, T Ohshima, M Shibasaki Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (51), 15837-15845, 2003 | 124 | 2003 |
| Trans-Diborylation of Alkynes: Pseudo-Intramolecular Strategy Utilizing a Propargylic Alcohol Unit Y Nagashima, K Hirano, R Takita, M Uchiyama Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (24), 8532-8535, 2014 | 123 | 2014 |
| Aryl Ether as a Negishi Coupling Partner: An Approach for Constructing C C Bonds under Mild Conditions C Wang, T Ozaki, R Takita, M Uchiyama Chemistry–A European Journal 12 (18), 3482-3485, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| Direct hydroxylation and amination of arenes via deprotonative cupration N Tezuka, K Shimojo, K Hirano, S Komagawa, K Yoshida, C Wang, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (29), 9166-9171, 2016 | 99 | 2016 |
| Nucleophilic amination of methoxy arenes promoted by a sodium hydride/iodide composite A Kaga, H Hayashi, H Hakamata, M Oi, M Uchiyama, R Takita, S Chiba Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56 (39), 11807-11811, 2017 | 81 | 2017 |
| Enantioselective total synthesis of (−)-strychnine: Development of a highly practical catalytic asymmetric carbon–carbon bond formation and domino cyclization T Ohshima, Y Xu, R Takita, M Shibasaki Tetrahedron 60 (43), 9569-9588, 2004 | 72 | 2004 |
| Highly enantioselective catalytic Michael reaction of α-substituted malonates using La-linked-BINOL complex in the presence of HFIP (1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-hexafluoroisopropanol) R Takita, T Ohshima, M Shibasaki Tetrahedron letters 43 (26), 4661-4665, 2002 | 66 | 2002 |
| Control of the Stereochemical Course of [4+2] Cycloaddition during trans‐Decalin Formation by Fsa2‐Family Enzymes N Kato, T Nogawa, R Takita, K Kinugasa, M Kanai, M Uchiyama, H Osada, ... Angewandte Chemie 130 (31), 9902-9906, 2018 | 53 | 2018 |
| Controlled reduction of carboxamides to alcohols or amines by zinc hydrides DY Ong, Z Yen, A Yoshii, J Revillo Imbernon, R Takita, S Chiba Angewandte Chemie 131 (15), 5046-5051, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
| π-Dimer formation in an oligothiophene tweezer molecule R Takita, C Song, TM Swager Organic Letters 10 (21), 5003-5005, 2008 | 45 | 2008 |
| Arenophile-mediated dearomative functionalization strategies M Okumura, D Sarlah Synlett 29 (07), 845-855, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| In situ ‘trans-metal trapping’: An efficient way to extend the scope of aromatic deprotometalation NM Brikci-Nigassa, G Bentabed-Ababsa, W Erb, F Mongin Synthesis 50 (18), 3615-3633, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Ligand accelerated indium (III)-catalyzed asymmetric alkynylation of aldehydes with 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol as an ethyne equivalent donor S Harada, R Takita, T Ohshima, S Matsunaga, M Shibasaki Chemical communications, 948-950, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Indium (III)-catalyzed transformations of alkynes: recent advances in carbo-and heterocyclization reactions SR Pathipati, A van der Werf, N Selander Synthesis 49 (22), 4931-4941, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Cross-coupling polycondensation via C–O or C–N bond cleavage ZK Yang, NX Xu, R Takita, A Muranaka, C Wang, M Uchiyama Nature Communications 9 (1), 1587, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
