Junichiro Yamaguchi

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
188 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Junichiro Yamaguchi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Junichiro Yamaguchi has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Organic Chemistry, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Junichiro Yamaguchi's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (106 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (62 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (33 papers). Junichiro Yamaguchi is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (106 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (62 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (33 papers). Junichiro Yamaguchi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Junichiro Yamaguchi's co-authors include Kenichiro Itami, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kei Muto, Yujiro Hayashi, Mitsuru Shoji, Ryosuke Takise, Kirika Ueda, Tatsunobu Sumiya, Kazuma Amaike and Armido Studer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Junichiro Yamaguchi

180 papers receiving 13.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

CH Bond Functionalization: Emerging Synthetic Tools for Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals

2012 2.7k citations Junichiro Yamaguchi, Atsushi Yamaguchi et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Funktionalisierung von C‐H‐Bindungen: neue Synthesemethoden für Naturstoffe und Pharmazeutika

2012 771 citations Junichiro Yamaguchi, Atsushi Yamaguchi et al. profile →
Recent Progress in Nickel‐Catalyzed Biaryl Coupling

2012 474 citations Junichiro Yamaguchi, Kei Muto et al. European Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
Cross-coupling of aromatic esters and amides

2017 423 citations Kei Muto, Junichiro Yamaguchi et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junichiro Yamaguchi Japan	54	12.1k	2.2k	1.5k	482	402	188	13.1k
Yian Shi United States	60	10.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	419 0.9×	904 2.2×	202	11.3k
Andrey P. Antonchick Germany	59	10.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	511 1.1×	178 0.4×	140	11.6k
Yoshiji Takemoto Japan	57	13.9k 1.2×	3.3k 1.5×	3.5k 2.3×	611 1.3×	368 0.9×	339	14.9k
David J. Procter United Kingdom	63	10.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	971 2.0×	440 1.1×	230	12.1k
Yong‐Qiang Tu China	48	6.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	600 1.2×	154 0.4×	231	7.8k
Kazuhiko Takai Japan	57	10.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	392 0.8×	524 1.3×	241	11.3k
John P. Wolfe United States	51	12.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	404 0.8×	636 1.6×	142	12.9k
Kiyoshi Tomioka Japan	50	8.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	203 0.4×	221 0.5×	315	8.9k
Sandro Cacchi Italy	58	11.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	412 0.9×	398 1.0×	246	12.3k
Matthew J. Gaunt United Kingdom	63	15.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	783 1.6×	370 0.9×	133	15.9k

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Tanaka, Hiroki, et al.. (2025). Difluoroenol phosphinates as difluoroenolate surrogates: synthesis and applications in defluorination and deoxygenative coupling. Chemical Science. 16(29). 13390–13400.

Yokogawa, Daisuke, et al.. (2025). Facile generation of ortho-quinodimethanes toward polycyclic compounds. Chem. 11(11). 102615–102615. 2 indexed citations

Ota, Eisuke & Junichiro Yamaguchi. (2025). Recent Developments for the Ring Opening of Pyrrolidines and Unstrained Cyclic Amines via C−N Bond Cleavage. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 28(20). 4 indexed citations

Nishimoto, Yoshio, et al.. (2025). Heteroaromatic swapping in aromatic ketones. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8998–8998. 1 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Junichiro, et al.. (2024). Deoxygenative functionalizations of aromatic dicarbonyls and aldehydes. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 97(7). 2 indexed citations

Muto, Kei, et al.. (2023). Chloroacetyl boronate N -tosylhydrazone as a versatile synthetic building block. Chemical Communications. 59(48). 7419–7422. 2 indexed citations

Okita, Toshimasa, et al.. (2023). Chlorine Atom Transfer of Unactivated Alkyl Chlorides Enabled by Zirconocene and Photoredox Catalysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 112–118. 14 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Junichiro, et al.. (2022). Formal Syntheses of Dictyodendrins B, C, and E by a Multi-Substituted Indole Synthesis. Synthesis. 54(22). 4963–4970. 5 indexed citations

Isshiki, Ryota, et al.. (2022). Decarbonylative Reductive Coupling of Aromatic Esters by Nickel and Palladium Catalyst. Chemistry Letters. 51(7). 749–753. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Ping, et al.. (2022). Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dearomative Arylation of Indoles via a Desymmetrization Strategy. Organic Letters. 24(7). 1481–1485. 20 indexed citations

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Kondo, Hiroki, et al.. (2021). Ring-opening fluorination of bicyclic azaarenes. Chemical Science. 13(3). 665–670. 14 indexed citations

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Muto, Kei, et al.. (2020). Dearomative Allylation of Naphthyl Cyanohydrins by Palladium Catalysis: Catalyst-Enhanced Site Selectivity. Organic Letters. 22(9). 3423–3427. 21 indexed citations

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Kuwata, Keiko, Tsuyoshi Hirota, Ayato Sato, et al.. (2019). Casein kinase 1 family regulates PRR5 and TOC1 in the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(23). 11528–11536. 65 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Atsushi, Kathryn M. Chepiga, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Kenichiro Itami, & Huw M. L. Davies. (2015). Concise Syntheses of Dictyodendrins A and F by a Sequential C–H Functionalization Strategy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(2). 644–647. 119 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Junichiro, Kei Muto, Kazuma Amaike, Takuya Yamamoto, & Kenichiro Itami. (2013). Nickel-Catalyzed Direct Coupling of Heteroarenes. Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan. 71(6). 576–587. 3 indexed citations

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Muto, Kei, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Aiwen Lei, & Kenichiro Itami. (2013). Isolation, Structure, and Reactivity of an Arylnickel(II) Pivalate Complex in Catalytic C–H/C–O Biaryl Coupling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(44). 16384–16387. 144 indexed citations

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Meyer, Christina, Benedikt Neue, Dirk Schepmann, et al.. (2011). Exploitation of an additional hydrophobic pocket of σ1 receptors: Late-stage diverse modifications of spirocyclic thiophenes by C–H bond functionalization. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 9(23). 8016–8016. 30 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Junichiro & Yujiro Hayashi. (2010). Syntheses of Fumagillin and Ovalicin. Chemistry - A European Journal. 16(13). 3884–3901. 39 indexed citations

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Hayashi, Yujiro, Mitsuru Shoji, Hayato Ishikawa, et al.. (2008). The Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)‐Cytotrienin A, an Ansamycin‐Type Anticancer Drug. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(35). 6657–6660. 40 indexed citations

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Nagumo, Yoko, Hideaki Kakeya, Junichiro Yamaguchi, et al.. (2004). Structure–activity relationships of epolactaene derivatives: structural requirements for inhibition of Hsp60 chaperone activity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 14(17). 4425–4429. 42 indexed citations

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