Seiji Suga

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
162 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Seiji Suga is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Seiji Suga has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Organic Chemistry, 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Seiji Suga's work include Radical Photochemical Reactions (54 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (33 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (26 papers). Seiji Suga is often cited by papers focused on Radical Photochemical Reactions (54 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (33 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (26 papers). Seiji Suga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Seiji Suga's co-authors include Jun‐ichi Yoshida, Ryōji Noyori, Masato Kitamura, Koichi Mitsudo, Aiichiro Nagaki, Shinji Okada, Koji Kawai, Hiroki Mandai, Masayuki Okajima and Shinkiti Suzuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Seiji Suga

158 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes promoted by chiral amino alcohols. Mechanism and nonlinear effect

1989 489 citations Seiji Suga et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Catalytic asymmetric induction. Highly enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes

1986 457 citations Seiji Suga et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Enantioselective addition of diorganozincs to aldehydes catalyzed by β-amino alcohols

1990 183 citations Seiji Suga et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seiji Suga Japan	42	5.2k	1.5k	1.5k	1.1k	716	162	6.9k
Choong Eui Song South Korea	48	5.2k 1.0×	779 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	359 0.5×	178	7.8k
Jan‐E. Bäckvall Sweden	46	4.8k 0.9×	682 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	2.1k 2.0×	531 0.7×	155	6.6k
Sanzhong Luo China	62	10.0k 1.9×	467 0.3×	1.6k 1.1×	2.8k 2.6×	452 0.6×	234	11.3k
Zheng Xu China	40	3.5k 0.7×	280 0.2×	555 0.4×	939 0.9×	1.0k 1.5×	178	5.3k
Atsuyoshi Ohno Japan	37	2.9k 0.5×	533 0.4×	2.5k 1.7×	651 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	235	5.0k
Timothy J. Donohoe United Kingdom	48	7.2k 1.4×	399 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.9×	152 0.2×	256	8.4k
Jianwei Sun Hong Kong	61	9.5k 1.8×	896 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	540 0.8×	337	11.7k
Brenno A. D. Neto Brazil	42	2.6k 0.5×	582 0.4×	928 0.6×	361 0.3×	550 0.8×	134	5.0k
Robert R. Knowles United States	44	7.2k 1.4×	418 0.3×	576 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	222 0.3×	83	8.5k
Yoshihiro Matsumura Japan	37	3.9k 0.7×	240 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	878 0.8×	236 0.3×	172	4.6k

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Aoki‐Saito, Haruka, Hiroki Mandai, Takashi Nakakura, et al.. (2025). (+)-Terrein exerts anti-obesity and anti-diabetic effects by regulating the differentiation and thermogenesis of brown adipocytes in mice fed a high-fat diet. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 186. 118030–118030. 2 indexed citations

Hosoya, Masahiro, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohols via Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mediated by 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol. Organic Letters. 27(18). 4737–4741.

Sato, Eisuke F., Akio Tani, Tomoyuki Miyao, et al.. (2025). Cyanomethylation of Aldehydes on an Electrochemical Microflow System and Utility of Machine Learning‐Assisted Examination of the Reaction Conditions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(37). e202501257–e202501257. 2 indexed citations

Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Generation of Sulfonamidyl Radicals via Anodic Oxidation of Hydrogen Bonding Complexes: Applications to Electrosynthesis of Benzosultams. JACS Au. 5(8). 3974–3981. 1 indexed citations

Mitsudo, Koichi, Nobuhiro Maekawa, Eisuke F. Sato, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of N,O-Bidentate Difluoroboron Complexes via Iodide-Promoted Demethylative Borylation. Organic Letters. 27(38). 10636–10641.

Shida, Naoki, Yusuke Muto, Ryo Kurihara, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Pyridines and Other Nitrogen-Containing Aromatic Compounds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(44). 30212–30221. 5 indexed citations

Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2024). Electrogenerated Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangement of Allyl Aryl Ethers. Organic Letters. 26(51). 11111–11116. 2 indexed citations

Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2024). Sequential Paired Electrochemical Transformation of Styrene Oxide via Anodic Meinwald Rearrangement and Cathodic Nitromethylation in an Electrochemical Flow Reactor with Catalytic Electrical Input. Synthesis. 56(16). 2507–2512. 1 indexed citations

Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of cyanoarenes, nitroarenes, quinolines, and pyridines under mild conditions with a proton-exchange membrane reactor. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 20. 1560–1571. 2 indexed citations

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Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Coupling Reactions Using Non‐Transition Metal Mediators: Recent Advances. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(47). 11 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Carbon-Ferrier Rearrangement Using a Microflow Reactor and Machine Learning-Assisted Exploration of Suitable Conditions. Organic Process Research & Development. 28(5). 1422–1429. 8 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2023). Anodic Dehydrogenative Aromatization of Tetrahydrocarbazoles Leading to Carbazoles. Organic Letters. 25(28). 5339–5344. 9 indexed citations

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Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Synthesis of Sultone Derivatives via Dehydrogenative C–O Bond Formation. Organic Letters. 25(19). 3476–3481. 9 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2023). Cathodic N–O Bond Cleavage of N-Alkoxy Amide. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 91(11). 112005–112005. 1 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2023). Alkynylation of Aldehydes Initiated by Cathodic Reduction. ChemElectroChem. 11(1). 4 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Synthesis of Dibenzothiophene S,S-Dioxides from Biaryl Sulfonyl Hydrazides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 91(11). 112007–112007. 1 indexed citations

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Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2022). Electrochemical Synthesis of Dibenzothiophenes via Intramolecular C–S Cyclization with a Halogen Mediator. Organic Letters. 24(46). 8547–8552. 18 indexed citations

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Sato, Eisuke F., Hiroki Tanaka, Koichi Mitsudo, et al.. (2021). Application of an Electrochemical Microflow Reactor for Cyanosilylation: Machine Learning-Assisted Exploration of Suitable Reaction Conditions for Semi-Large-Scale Synthesis. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(22). 16035–16044. 28 indexed citations

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Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2021). Cu-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative C–O Cyclization for the Synthesis of Furan-Fused Thienoacenes. Organic Letters. 23(11). 4322–4326. 10 indexed citations

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Mitsudo, Koichi, et al.. (2017). Combinatorial electrochemistry for organic synthesis. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 8. 8–13. 10 indexed citations

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