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  1. Induction of JUN and FOS Expression by Gallic Acid Derivatives in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells: An in Silico and RT-PCR Study

    Article • Tropical Journal of Natural Product Research, January 2026, University of Benin

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  2. Site-Selective Staudinger Conjugation of Aryl Azides Driven by Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding

    Article • Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, December 2025, Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  3. Synthesis and Application of Azide‐Incorporated Copper‐Chelating Peptides for Efficient Click Conjugation Reaction

    Article • Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  4. Phytochemistry, Antioxidant and Cytotoxic Activities of Hibiscus (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) Extract on MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells

    Article • Indonesian Journal of Medical Chemistry and Bioinformatics, January 2025, Universitas Indonesia, Directorate of Research and Public Service

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  5. Synthesis of a naphthalimide-functionalized polymethacrylate: a turn-on fluorescent probe for sulfinic acids via covalent bond formation

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  6. Synthesis, biological screening, and in silico physicochemical analysis of novel 1,2,3-triazolyl oleate esters

    Article • Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  7. Fluorescent Labeling of a Target Protein with an Alkyl Diazirine Photocrosslinker Bearing a Cinnamate Moiety

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  8. Synthesis of Naphthalimide Azocarboxylates Showing Turn‐On Fluorescence by Substitution Reaction with Sulfinates**

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  9. Amphos-Mediated Conversion of Alkyl Azides to Diazo Compounds and One-Pot Azide-Site Selective Transient Protection, Click Conjugation, and Deprotective Transformation

    Article • Organic Letters, March 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  10. Conversion of Alkyl Azides to Diazo Compounds and the Azide-Site Selectivity: One-Pot Phosphine-Mediated Transient Protection of Azido Groups and Deprotective Transformation to Diazo Groups

    Article • February 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  11. Synthesis and Characterization of Naphthalimide Diazene-Based Fluorescence Turn-on Molecules Responsive to Sulfinates

    Article • January 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  12. Spot the difference in reactivity: a comprehensive review of site-selective multicomponent conjugation exploiting multi-azide compounds

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  13. Synthesis, α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity and Molecular Docking Study of Chalcone Derivatives Bearing a 1<i>H</i>-1,2,3-Triazole Unit

    Article • Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, May 2023, Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  14. Neighboring Nitrogen Atom-Induced Reactions of Azidoacetyl Hydrazides, including Unexpected Nitrogen-Nitrogen Bond Cleavage of the Hydrazide

    Article • Organics, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  15. Correction to “Photodissociation of the Product from a Transition-Metal Center Allows the Catalytic Cycle to Proceed: The Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [2+2+1] Carbonylative Cycloaddition of Diynes”

    Article • Organic Letters, January 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  16. Concise Synthesis of the Terpene Core Structure of Suaveolindole through a Time-Economic Route

    Article • Synlett, November 2021, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  17. Taming Unhindered Alkyl Azides by Intramolecular Hydrogen-Azide Interaction for Discriminative Conjugation onto Alkyl Diazides

    Article • July 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  18. Photodissociation of the Product from a Transition-Metal Center Allows the Catalytic Cycle to Proceed: The Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [2+2+1] Carbonylative Cycloaddition of Diynes

    Article • Organic Letters, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  19. Sulfonium Ion-Promoted Traceless Schmidt Reaction of Alkyl Azides

    Article • May 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  20. Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed CO-Gas-Free Arylative Dual-Carbonylation of Alkynes with Arylboronic Acids via the Formyl C–H Activation of Formaldehyde

    Article • Synthesis, March 2021, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  21. Taming the reactivity of alkyl azides by intramolecular hydrogen bonding: site-selective conjugation of unhindered diazides

    Article • Organic Chemistry Frontiers, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  22. Sulfonium ion-promoted traceless Schmidt reaction of alkyl azides

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  23. Accelerated Organic Photoreactions in Flow Microreactors under Gas-Liquid Slug Flow Conditions Using N2 Gas as an Unreactive Substance

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, September 2019, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  24. Site-selective conversion of azido groups at carbonyl α-positions into oxime groups leading triazide to a triple click conjugation scaffold

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  25. The Use of Formaldehyde in the Rhodium-Catalyzed Linear-Selective Hydroformylation of Vinylheteroarenes

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2019, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  26. In Vitro Cytotoxicity of the Synthesized Gallic Acid Derivatives (N-Alkyl Gallamide) Against Breast MCF-7 Cancer Cells

    Article • Oriental Journal Of Chemistry, October 2018, Oriental Scientific Publishing Company

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  27. Site-Selective Conversion of Azido Groups at Carbonyl α-Positions to Diazo Groups in Diazido and Triazido Compounds

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  28. Synthesis and in Vitro Antimalarial Activity of Alkyl Esters Gallate as a Growth Inhibitors of Plasmodium Falciparum

    Article • Oriental Journal Of Chemistry, April 2018, Oriental Scientific Publishing Company

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  29. Synthesis, photophysical properties, and photodynamic activity of positional isomers of TFPP-glucose conjugates

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  30. Nitrosoallene-Mediated endo-Cyclizations for the Synthesis of (Hetero)cyclic α-Substituted exo-Unsaturated Oximes

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  31. In Silico Study and Cytotoxicity of the Synthesized Open-chain Analogues of Antimycin A3 Against HEP-2 Laryngeal Cancer Cells

    Article • Current Cancer Therapy Reviews, November 2017, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto, Yuda Sugiarta

  32. Rhodium-catalyzed Carbonylative Annulation of 2-Bromobenzylic Alcohols with Internal Alkynes Using Furfural via β-Aryl Elimination

    Article • Chemistry Letters, July 2017, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  33. Inside Back Cover: Arene-Inserted Extended Germa[n ]pericyclynes: Synthesis, Structure, and Phosphorescence Properties (Chem. Eur. J. 42/2017)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  34. Arene-Inserted Extended Germa[n ]pericyclynes: Synthesis, Structure, and Phosphorescence Properties

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  35. Quantitative Photodeprotection Assessment of Caged Resveratrol by Fluorescence Measurement

    Article • ACS Omega, May 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  36. DESIGN AND SCREENING OF GALLIC ACID DERIVATIVES AS INHIBITORS OF MALARIAL DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (DHFR) BY IN SILICO DOCKING

    Article • Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, February 2017, Innovare Academic Sciences Pvt Ltd

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  37. Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbonylative Annulation of Iodobenzenes with Strained Olefins and 4-Octyne in the Presence of Furfural Involvingortho-C-H Bond Cleavage

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  38. Extended germa[N]pericyclynes: synthesis and characterization

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  39. Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclic Organogermanium Element-Block Materials Germa[N]pericyclynes Composed of Ethynylene-Germylenes

    Article • Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan, January 2017, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  40. Synthesis of Fused 1,2,3-Triazoles through Carbocation-Mediated Intramolecular [3+2] Cycloaddition of Azido-propargyl Alcohols

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2017, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  41. Synthesis and Photochemistry of a New Photolabile Protecting Group for Propargylic Alcohols

    Article • Synlett, November 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  42. Study of the Paternò–Büchi type photolabile protecting group and application to various acids

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  43. Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Nitrosoallenes with Carbonyl and Nitrile Compounds to Form Functional Cyclic Nitrones

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, October 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  44. Remarkable Improvement of Organic Photoreaction Efficiency in the Flow Microreactor by the Slug Flow Condition Using Water

    Article • Organic Process Research & Development, September 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  45. RhI-Catalyzed Intramolecular Carbonylative C−H/C−I Coupling of 2-Iodobiphenyls Using Furfural as a Carbonyl Source

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  46. Synthesis and Characterization of Ethynylated Germa[4]pericyclyne

    Article • Chemistry Letters, July 2016, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  47. Pd(0)-catalyzed CO Gas-free Carbonylation of 2-Bromobiphenyls with Formaldehyde as a Carbonyl Surrogate through the Cleavage of a C–H Bond

    Article • Chemistry Letters, April 2016, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  48. Synthesis of α-Substituted Enoximes with Nucleophiles via Nitrosoallenes

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, January 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  49. Synthesis of novel caged antisense oligonucleotides with fluorescence property

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  50. Approach to Phenanthroindolizidine Alkaloids Using Organic Azides with 1-Aryl Allylic Alcohols: Unexpected Tandem Reactions to Indenyl Aziridines via Nazarov Cyclization

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2016, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  51. Asymmetric Pauson–Khand-type reactions of 1,6-enynes using formaldehyde as a carbonyl source by cooperative dual rhodium catalysis

    Article • Tetrahedron, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Nakcheol Jeong, Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  52. Accessible protocol for asymmetric hydroformylation of vinylarenes using formaldehyde

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Tsumoru Morimoto, Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  53. Stepwise synthesis and characterization of germa[4], [5], [8], and [10]pericyclynes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  54. Fluorescence and phosphorescence study of germanium–acetylene polymers and germa[N]pericyclynes

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  55. Diastereodifferentiating [2+2] Photocycloaddition of a Chiral Cyclohexenone with Cyclopentene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Using a Flow Microreactor

    Article • Journal of Flow Chemistry, December 2014, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  56. Acid-mediated synthesis of fully substituted 1,2,3-triazoles: multicomponent coupling reactions, mechanistic study, synthesis of serine hydrolase inhibitor and its derivatives

    Article • Tetrahedron, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  57. Total synthesis of unsaturated imine venom alkaloids of Costa Rican ant by way of Schmidt reaction via allyl/pentadienyl cations

    Article • Tetrahedron, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  58. Synthesis and evaluation of new caged compound with thiochromone derivative

    Article • Tetrahedron, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  59. Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbonylative Arylation of Alkynes with Arylboronic Acids Using Formaldehyde as a Carbonyl Source

    Article • Synlett, March 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  60. Enantiodifferentiating [2+2] photocycloaddition of cyclohexenone carboxylic acid with ethylene using 8-phenylmenthyl amine as a chiral template

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  61. Synthesis and characterization of germa[n]pericyclynes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  62. Design and Molecular Docking Study of Antimycin A<sub>3</sub> Analogues as Inhibitors of Anti-Apoptotic Bcl-2 of Breast Cancer

    Article • Open Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, January 2014, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  63. Regioselective Rapid Synthesis of Fully Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles Mediated by Propargyl Cations

    Article • Organic Letters, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  64. Diastereoselective [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition of Cyclohexenone Derivative with Olefins in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  65. Recent Applications and Developments of Organic Azides in Total Synthesis of Natural Products

    Article • Natural Product Communications, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  66. A novel thiochromone-type photolabile protecting group for carbonyl compounds

    Article • Tetrahedron, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  67. Diastereoselective [2+2] Photocycloaddition of Chiral Cyclic Enones with Olefins in Aqueous Media Using Surfactants

    Article • Molecules, January 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  68. Synthesis of (−)-Morphine: Application of Sequential Claisen/Claisen Rearrangement of an Allylic Vicinal Diol

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto, Prof Takaaki Sato

  69. Efficient Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Alkylimines Performed with Allyl Cations and Azides: Application to the Synthesis of an Ant Venom Alkaloid

    Article • Organic Letters, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  70. Double nucleophilic N-alkylation of α-oxime-esters with Grignard reagents

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  71. Diastereoselective [2+2] Photocycloaddition of a Chiral Cyclohexenone with Ethylene in a Continuous Flow Microcapillary Reactor

    Article • Journal of Flow Chemistry, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  72. Diastereodifferentiating [2+2] photocycloaddition of chiral cyclohexenone carboxylates with cyclopentene by a microreactor

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  73. Synthesis and anticancer activity of polyhydroxylated 18-membered analogue of antimycin A3

    Article • Tetrahedron, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  74. Rh(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of 3-Substituted Isoindolinones through CO Gas-Free Aminocarbonylation

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  75. Novel Photolabile Protecting Group for Phosphate Compounds

    Article • Synlett, January 2012, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  76. Rh(I)-Catalyzed Cyclocarbonylation of Enynes with Glyceraldehyde: An Available Carbonyl Source Derived from Sugar Alcohols

    Article • Synlett, January 2012, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  77. Synthesis of Hetarenoindanone Based on Selenium Dioxide-Promoted Direct Intramolecular Cyclization

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2011, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  78. Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation by Way of Umpolung Strategy of Enamine Derivatives

    Article • Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan, January 2011, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  79. Total Synthesis of (+)- and (-)-Galanthamine

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2010, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  80. Formal synthesis of (−)-morphine from d-glucal based on the cascade Claisen rearrangement

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  81. Total synthesis of (+)-galanthamine starting from d-glucose

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, September 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto

  82. Total synthesis of actinobolin from d-glucose by way of the stereoselective three-component coupling reaction

    Article • Tetrahedron, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Hiroki Tanimoto