Toshihisa Maeshima

Magnesium oxide-catalysed reaction of carbon dioxide with anepoxide with retention of stereochemistry

Magnesium oxide is an efficient catalyst for the cycloaddition of ncarbon dioxide to epoxides under mild conditions; the reaction of carbon ndioxide with (R)-styrene oxide in the presence of magnesium oxide ngives (R)-phenyl carbonate in 97% ee with retention of nstereochemistry.

The thermal- and photo-reactions of a diphenylphosphinite ester with 10-methylacridinium iodide. Discrimination between polar and single electron transfer processes.

Abstract The thermal-reaction of isopropyl diphenylphosphinite with 10-methylacridinuim iodide results in the formation of a phosphonium ion through a polar process, whereas the reaction under the irradation of light affords 10-methylacridan as well as isopropyl diphenylphosphinate through single electron transfer (SET) from the former to the latter.

Alkane-tetrathiol induced formation of remarkably stable self-assembled monolayer and polymer films containing electroactive tetrathiafulvalene moieties on metal electrodes

Remarkably stable self-assembled monolayer and polymer films composed of a new tetrathiafulvalenyl-tetrathiol have been formed on metal electrodes: this is a new class of surface modification by self-assembly and electrochemical polymerization using the same alkane-tetrathiol.