SAITO Akio

Professional Career

2001.04 - 2005.03 : Assistant, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science Graduate School
2005.04 - 2007.03 : Assistant, Showa Pharmaceutical University
2007.04 - 2008.03 : Assistant Professor, Showa Pharmaceutical University
2008.04 - 2012.04 : Lecturer, Showa Pharmaceutical University
2012.05 - Present : Associate Professor (Tenure-truck Program), Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2001 PhD. in Pharmacy Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science

Research Interests

Synthetic organic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Heterocyclic chemistry, Organic Fluorochemistry, Sequential catalytic reaction, Heterocyclic compound, Physiologically active substance

Publications

• Shea, MT, Rohde, GT, Vlasenko, YA, Postnikov, PS, Yusubov, MS, Zhdankin, VV, Saito, A, Yoshimura A, Convenient Synthesis of Benziodazolone: New Reagents for Direct Esterification of Alcohols and Amidation of Amines. Molecules 26: 7355, 2021.
• Yoshimura A, Larson SM, Frahm GB, Huss CD, Rohde GT, Nemykin VN, Yusubov MS, Saito A, Zhdankin VV, Synthesis of arylbenziodoxoles using pseudocyclic benziodoxole triflate and arenes. Arkivoc, 35-49 (2020).
• Yoshimura A, Huss CD, Saito A, Kitamura T, Zhdankin VV, 2-Iodosylbenzoic acid activated by trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride: efficient oxidant and electrophilic reagent for preparation of iodonium salts, New Journal of Chemistry (New J. Chem.) 45: 16434-16437, 2021.
• Yoshimura A, Huss CD, Liebl M, Rohde GT, Larson SM, Frahm GB, Luedtke MW, Schumacher TJ, Gardner ZS, Zhdankin VV, Postnikov PS, Yusubov MS, Kitamura T, Saito A, Preparation, structure, and reactivity of pseudocyclic β-trifluorosulfonyloxy vinylbenziodoxolone derivatives, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (Adv. Synth. Catal.) 363: 3365-3371, 2021.
• Makitalo CL, Yoshimura A, Rohde GT, Mironova IA, Yusubova RY, Yusubov MS, Zhdankin VV, Saito A, Imino-λ3-iodane and catalytic amount of I2-mediated synthesis of N-allylsulfenamides via [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement. European Journal of Organic Chemistry (Eur. J. Org. Chem.) 41.6433-6439 (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202000961). 2020
• Yoshimura A, Saito A, Yusubov MS, Zhdankin VV. Synthesis of Oxazoline and Oxazole Derivatives by Hypervalent Iodine-Mediated Oxidative Cycloaddition Reactions. Synthesis 52(16): 2299-2310 (2020)
• Takahashi S, Umakoshi Y, Nakayama K, Okada Y, Zhdankin VV, Yoshimura A, Saito A. Fluorocyclization of N-Propargyl Carboxamides by lambda(3)-Iodane Catalysts with Coordinating Substituents Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (Adv. Synth. Catal.) 362(14): 2997-3003 (2020).
• Yoshimura, A; Jarvi, ME; Shea, M; Makitalo, CL; Rohde, GT; Yusubov, MS; Saito, A; Zhdankin, VV. Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagent Mediated Regioselective Cycloaddition of Aldoximes with Enaminones. European Journal of Organic Chemistry (Eur. J. Org. Chem.). 2019.39. 6682-6689