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Akira Hirao

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Synthesis and properties of polymers, Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Most-Cited Works

→ Advances in Living Anionic Polymerization: From Functional Monomers, Polymerization Systems, to Macromolecular Architectures(2014)272 cited
→ Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with chiral alkoxy-amineborane complexes(1981)216 cited
→ Recent advance in living anionic polymerization of functionalized styrene derivatives(2002)209 cited
→ Asymmetric synthesis using chirally modified borohydrides. Part 3. Enantioselective reduction of ketones and oxime ethers with reagents prepared from borane and chiral amino alcohols(1985)190 cited
→ Synthesis of well-defined star-branched polymers by stepwise iterative methodology using living anionic polymerization(2010)183 cited
→ Catalytic Behavior of Optically Active Amino Alcohol–Borane Complex in the Enantioselective Reduction of Acetophenone Oxime O-Alkyl Ethers(1987)167 cited

→ Polymerization of monomers containing functional silyl groups. 5. Synthesis of new porous membranes with functional groups(1988)

166 cited

→ Asymmetric reduction of aromatic ketones with the reagent prepared from (S)-(–)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane(1983)159 cited

→ Precise synthesis and surface structures of architectural per- and semifluorinated polymers with well-defined structures(2007)149 cited

→ Kinetics of Chain Coupling at Melt Interfaces(1994)144 cited