2014

1. Efficient partial hydrogenation of trichloromethyl to geminal-dichloromethyl groups in platinum on carbon-catalyzed system
   Yoshinari Sawama, Takahiro Imanishi, Ryosuke Nakatani, Yuta Fujiwara Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
   Tetrahedron, 70, 4540-4546 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2014.04.098
   Highlighted in J. Synth.Org. Chem., Jpn, 73, 88 (2015)
   
2. Palladium on Carbon-catalyzed One-Pot N-Arylindole Synthesis: Intramolecular Aromatic Amination, Aromatization,
   and Intermolecular Aromatic Amination
   Y. Monguchi, T. Marumoto, H. Takamatsu, Y. Sawama, H. Sajiki
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 356, 1866-1872 (2014)
   DOI 10.1002/adsc.201301168
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS, 2014, 10(9), 999
   
   
3. Rhodium on Carbon-Catalyzed Hydrogen Scavenger- and Oxidant-free Dehydrogenation of Alcohols in Aqueous Media
   Yoshinari Sawama,* Kosuke Morita, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Saori Nagata, Yuki Yabe, Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki*
   Green Chem., 16, 3439-3443 (2014).
   Highlighted in J. Synth.Org. Chem., Jpn, 72, 1175 (2014)
   
   
4. Systematic evaluation of the palladium-catalyzed hydrogenation under flow conditions
   Tomohiro Hattori, Aya Tsubone, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi*, Hironao Sajiki*
   Tetrahedron, 70,4790-4798 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2014.05.038
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS, 2014, 10(9), 992
   
5. Chemoselective and Direct Functionalization of Methyl Benzyl Ethers and Unsymmetrical Dibenzyl Ethers
   Using Iron Trichloride
   Yoshinari Sawama, Ryota Goto, Saori Nagata, Yuko Shishido, Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki
   Chem. Eur.J., 20, 2631-2636 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303910
   
   
6. Palladium on Carbon-catalyzed Gentle and Quantitative Combustion of Hydrogen at Room Temperatures
   Yasunari Monguchi, Takashi Ida, Toshihide Maejima, Takayoshi Yanase, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasushi Sasai, Shin-ichi Kondo,
   Hironao Sajiki
   Adv., Synth., Catal., 356, 313-318 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300710
   
   
7. Effect of Sodium Acetate in Atom Transfer Radical Addition of Polyhaloalkanes to Olefins.
   Yoshinari Sawama, Ryosuke Nakatani, Takahiro Imanishi, Yuta Fujiwara, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
   RSC Adv., 4, 8657-8660 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1039/C3RA47457G
   
   
8. Cu/HP20-Catalyzed Solvent-Free Huisgen Cycloaddition at Ordinary Temperatures.
   Yoshiaki Kitamura, Kazumi Taniguchi, Tomohiro Maegawa, Yasunari Monguchi, Yukio Kitade, and Hironao Sajiki
   Heterocycles, 88, 233-243 (2014)
   DOI: 10.3987/COM-13-S(S)6
   
   
9. Iron-Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Benzylation Using Benzyl TMS Ethers at Room Temperature
   Yoshinari Sawama, Yuko Shishido, Takahiro Kawajiri, Ryota Goto, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
   Chem. Eur. J., 20, 510-516 (2014)
   DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302862
   
   

2013

1. Chemoselective Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Pd on Spherical Carbon
   Hiroyoshi Esaki, Tomohiro Hattori, Aya Tsubone, Satoko Mibayashi, Takao Sakata, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi, Hidehiro
   Yasuda, Kazuto Nosaka, and Hironao Sajiki
   ChemCatChem, 13, 3629-2635 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201300639
2. Iron-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Azidation and Allylation of O-Heterocycles
   Sawama, Yoshinari; Shibata, Kyoshiro; Sawama, Yuka; Takubo, Masato; Monguchi, Yasunari; Krause, Norbert; Sajiki, Hironao
   Org. Lett., 15, 5282-5285 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1021/ol402511r
   
3. Mechanism Study of Copper-mediated One-pot Reductive Amination of Aryl Halides Using Trimethylsilyl Azide
   Maejima, Toshihide; Ueda, Moriatsu; Nakano, Jun; Sawama, Yoshinari; Monguchi, Yasunari; Sajiki, Hironao
   J. Org. Chem., 78, 8980-8985 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1021/jo401474k
   Selected as a Featured Article
   
4. Platinum on Carbon-Catalyzed H-D Exchange Reaction of Aromatic Nuclei Due to Isopropyl Alcohol-Mediated Self-Activation of Platinum Metal in deuterium oxide
   Yoshinari Sawama, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Yuki Yabe, Kosuke Morita, Kyoshiro Shibata, Masahiro Shigetsura,　Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 355, 1529-1534 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201201102
   
   
5. Easily-Controlled Chemoselective Hydrogenation Using Palladium on Boron Nitride
   Yuki Yabe, Yoshinari Sawama, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Saori Nagata, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
   Chem. Cat. Chem., 5, 2360-2366 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201300035
   
6. Chemoselective Hydrogenation Reaction of Unsaturated Bonds in the Presence of an o-Nitrobenzenesulfonyl Group
   Akinori Kawanishi, Chiyako Miyamoto, Yuki Yabe, Makoto Inai, Tomohiro Asakawa, Yoshitaka Hamashima, Hironao Sajiki, and Toshiyuki Kan
   Org. Lett., 15(6), 1306-1309 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1021/ol4002448
   
7. Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Functionalizations of 1,4-Epoxy-1,4-dihydronaphthalenes.
   Yoshinari Sawama, Yuta Ogata, Koichi Kawamoto, Hiroyuki Satake, Kyoshiro Shibata, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki, Yasuyuki Kita
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 355, 517-528 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201200771
   
   
8. Solvent-free Huisgen Cyclization Using Heterogeneous Copper Catalysts Supported on Chelate Resin
   Yasunari Monguchi, Kei Nozaki, Toshihide Maejima, Yutaka Shimoda, Yoshinari Sawama, Yoshiaki Kitamura, Yukio Kitade, Hironao Sajiki
   Green Chem., 15, 490-495 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1039/C2GC36584G
   
9. Efficient Generation of ortho-Naphthoquinone Methides from 1,4- Epoxy-1,4-dihydronaphthalenes and Their Annulation with Allyl Silanes.
   Yoshinari Sawama, Yuko Shishido, Takayoshi Yanase, Koichi Kawamoto, Ryota Goto, Yasunari Monguchi, Yasuyuki Kita, Hironao Sajiki
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 52, 1515-1519 (2013)
   DOI: 10.1002/anie.201207315
   
10. Site-selective Deuterated-Alkene Synthesis Using Palladium on Boron Nitride
    Yuki Yabe, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi, and Hironao Sajiki
    Chem. Eur. J., 19, 484-488 (2013)
    DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203337
    
11. Practical Protocol for the Palladium on Carbon-catalyzed Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reaction
    Yasunari Monguchi, Takayoshi Yanase, Shigeki Mori, Hironao Sajiki
    SYNTHESIS (PSP), 45, 40－44 (2013).
    Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal
    http://www.organic-chemistry.org/abstracts/lit3/894.shtm
    
    
12. Practical method for PCB degradation using Pd/C-H₂-Mg system
    A. Ido, S. Ishihara,A. Kume, T. Nakanishi, Y. Monguchi, H. Sajiki, H. Nagase
    Chemosphere, 90, 57-64 (2013)

2012

1. Iron-Catalyzed Chemoselective Azidation of Benzylic Silyl Ethers
   Yoshinari Sawama, Saori Nagata, Yuki Yabe, Kosuke Morita, Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki
   Chem. Eur. J., 18, 16608–16611 (2012)

   

2. Stereo- and Regioselective Direct Multi-Deuterium-Labeling Methods of Sugars
    Yoshinari Sawama, Yuki Yabe, Hiroki Iwata, Yuta Fujiwara, Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki
   Chem. Eur. J., 18, 16436-16442 (2012)
   

   
   
3. Development of Diversified Methods for Chemical Modification of the 5,6-Double Bond of Uracil Derivatives Depending on Active Methylene Compounds.
   Hironao Sajiki, Yusuke Iida, Kanoko Ikawa, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi, Yukio Kitade, Yoshifumi Maki, Hideo Inoue and Kosaku Hirota
   Molecules, 17(6), 6519-6546 (2012)
   Open Access (Molecules Website: http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/17/6/6519 )
4. Palladium on Carbon-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Using Triarylbismuths.
   Yasunari Monguchi, Tomohiro Hattori, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Takayoshi Yanase, Yoshinari Sawama and Hironao Sajiki
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 354, 2561-2567 (2012)
5. Chemoselective HydrogenationUsing Molecular Sieves-Supported Pd Catalysts: Pd/MS3A and Pd/MS5A
   T. Takahashi, M. Yoshimura, H. Suzuka, T.Maegawa, Y. Sawama, Y.Monguchi, H. Sajiki
   Tetrahedron, 68, 8293-8299 (2012)
   
6. Pd/C-catalyzed dechlorinationof polychlorinated biphenyls under hydrogen gas-free conditions.
   S. Ishihara, A. Ido, Y. Monguchi, H. Nagase, H. sajiki
   J. Hazard. Mater. 229-230,15-19(2012) .
   
7. Development of Palladium on Boron Nitride Catalyst and Its Application to Semihydrogenation of Alkynes.
   Yuki Yabe, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Saori Nagata, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki,
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 354, 1264-1268 (2012).
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2012, 2012; 8(9), 1041
   
8. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation by Ligand-free Cross-Coupling Reaction Using Palladium Catalyst Supported on Synthetic Adsorbent.
   Yasunari Monguchi, Keita Sakai, Koichi Endo, Yuki Fujita, Masaru Niimura, Masatoshi Yoshimura, Tomoteru Mizusaki, Yoshinari Sawama, and Hironao Sajiki
   ChemCatChem., 4, 546-558 (2012)
9. Platinum on Carbon-Catalyzed Hydrodefluorination of Fluoroarenes Using Isopropyl Alcohol-Water-Sodium Carbonate Combination.
   Yoshinari Sawama, Yuki Yabe, Masahiro Shigetsura, Tuyoshi Yamada, Saori Nagata, Yuta Fujiwara, Tomohiro Maegawa, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki,
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 354, 777-782 (2012)
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2012, 7, 802.
   
10. Pt/C-Catalyzed Precise Reduction Control of Trichloromethyl to Gem-Dichloromethyl Group.
    Takahiro Imanishi, Yuta Fujiwara, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
    Adv. Synth. Catal., 354, 771-776 (2012).
    Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2012, 6, 684.
    
11. Absolute structure of shoreaketone: a rotational isomeric resveratrol tetramer in Dipterocarpaceaeous plants.
    Tetsuro Ito, Masayoshi Oyama, Hironao Sajiki, Ruichi Sawa, Yoshikazu Takahashi, Munekazu Iinuma
    Tetrahedron, 68, 2950-2960 (2012)
    
12. One-pot aromatic aminationbased on carbon–nitrogen coupling reaction between aryl halides and azidocompounds.
    Toshihide Maejima,Yutaka Shimoda, Kei Nozaki, Shigeki Mori, Yoshinari Sawama, Yasunari Monguchi,and Hironao Sajiki
    Tetrahedron, 68，1712-1722 (2012).
    
13. Ligand-free Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reaction Catalyzed by Palladium on Carbon.
    Takayoshi Yanase, Yasunari Monguchi and Hironao Sajiki
    RSC Adv., 2 (2), 590 - 594 (2012),
    
14. Deuterium-labelled benzyladenine: synthesis and application as a surrogate.
    Modutlwa, N.; Tada, H.; Sugahara, Y.; Shiraki, K.; Hara, N.; Deyashiki, Y.; Maegawa, T.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
    Heterocycles, 84,　419-429 (2012).
    
15. Selective N-Alkylationof Amines Using Nitriles under Hydrogenation Conditions: Facile Synthesis of Secondaryand Tertiary Amine.
    Takashi Ikawa, Yuki Fujita,Tomoteru Mizusaki,　SaeBetsuin, HarukiTakamatsu, TomohiroMaegawa,　YasunariMonguchi and HironaoSajiki
    Org. Biomol. Chem. , 10, 293-304 (2012).
    

2011

1. Facile Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Platinum on Carbon under Ordinary Pressures and Temperatures.
   Yuta Fujiwara, Youhei Iwasaki, Tomohiro Maegawa, Yasunari Monguchi, Hironao Sajiki
   ChemCatChem,, 3, 1624-1628 (2011).
   
   
2. Palladium on carbon-catalyzed solvent-freeand solid-phase hydrogenation and Suzuki–Miyaura reaction.
   Yasunari Monguchi, YukiFujita, Shota Hashimoto, Mariko Ina, Tohru Takahashi, Ryo Ito, Kei Nozaki, TomohiroMaegawa, Hironao Sajiki
   Tetrahedron, 8628-8634 (2011).
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2012, 113.
   
3. Pd/C-catalyzed and water-mediated Hiyama cross-coupling reaction using an electron-deficient phosphine ligand.
   Yanase, T.; Mori, S.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Chem. Lett., 40, 910-912 (2011).
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2011, 1374.
   
4. H. Pyridine-N-oxide mediated oxidation of diarylalkynes with palladium on carbon.
   Sawama, Y.; Takubo, M.; Mori, S.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki,
   Eur. J. Org. Chem., 3361–3367 (2011).
   
5. Halogen-deuterium exchange reaction mediated by tributyltin hydride using THF-d₈ as the deuterium source.
   Mutsumi, T.; Iwata, H.; Maruhashi, K.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Tetrahedron, 67, 1158-1165 (2011).
   

2010

1. Synthesis of deuterium-labelled drugs by hydrogen-deuterium (H–D) exchange using heterogeneous catalysis
   Modutlwa, N.; Maegawa, T.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   J. Label. Compd. Pharm. 53, 686-692 (2010).
2. Palladium on charcoal-catalyzed ligand-free Stille coupling.
   Yabe, Y.; Maegawa, T.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Tetrahedron, 66, 8654–8660 (2010).
   
3. Pilot plant study of the PCB degradation at ambient temperature and pressure.
   Monguchi, Y.; Ishihara, S.; Ido, A.; Niikawa, M.; Kamiya, K.; Sawama, Y.; Nagase, H.; Sajiki, H.
   Org. Process Res. Dev., 14, 1140–1146 (2010).
   
   
4. Palladium on carbon-catalyzed synthesis of benzil derivatives from 1,2-diarylalkynes with DMSO and molecular oxygen as dual oxidants.
   Mori, S.; Takubo, M.; Yanase, T.; Maegawa, T.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 352, 1630-1634 (2010).
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2010, 1207.
5. Palladium on carbon-catalyzed synthesis of 2- and 2,3-substituted indoles under heterogeneous conditions.
   Monguchi, Y.; Mori, S.; Aoyagi, S.; Tsutsui, A.; Maegawa, T.; Sajiki, H.
   Org. Biomol. Chem., 8, 3338–3342 (2010).
   
6. Copper-mediated reductive amination of aryl halides with trimethylsilyl azide.
   Monguchi, Y.; Maejima, T.; Mori, S.; Maegawa, T.; Sajiki, H.
   Chem. Eur. J., 16, 7372-7375 (2010).
   
7. Regio-, chemo- and stereoselective deuterium labeling method of sugars based on ruthenium-catalyzed C-H bond activation.
   Fujiwara, Y.; Iwata, H.; Sawama, Y.; Monguchi, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Chem. Commun., 46, 4977–4979 (2010).
   Selected as a Hot Article(www.rsc.org/chemcomm/hot)
   
8. Ligand-free and heterogeneous palldium on carbon-catalyzed hetero-Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling.
   Kitamura, Y.; Sako, S.; Tsutsui, A.; Monguchi, Y.; Maegawa, T.; Kitade, Y.; Sajiki, H.
   Adv. Synth. Catal., 352, 718–730 (2010).
   Highlighted in SYNFACTS 2010, 844.
9. C–C Bond Formation on 5-Position of Uridine Ring by Morita–Baylis–Hillman Type Reaction
   Yasunari Monguchi, Kanoko Yasunaga, Takashi Tsunoda, Takayuki Ando, Tomohiro Maegawa, Kosaku Hirota, and Hironao Sajiki
   Heterocycles, 80, 537-555 (2010).