Remote Stereoinduction in the Organocuprate-Mediated Allylic Alkylation of Allylic gem-Dichlorides: Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of (Z)-Chloroalkene Dipeptide Isosteres.
Takuya Kobayakawa, Tetsuo Narumi* & Hirokazu Tamamura*

Organic Chemistry for Drug Discovery
Remote Stereoinduction in the Organocuprate-Mediated Allylic Alkylation of Allylic gem-Dichlorides: Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of (Z)-Chloroalkene Dipeptide Isosteres.
Takuya Kobayakawa, Tetsuo Narumi* & Hirokazu Tamamura*

Development of the 8-aza-3-bromo-7-hydroxycoumarin-4-ylmethyl group as a new entry of photolabile protecting groups.
Hikaru Takano, Tetsuo Narumi*, Nami Ohashi, Akinobu Suzuki, Toshiaki Furuta, Wataru Nomura & Hirokazu Tamamura*

Tetrahedron, 70(29), 4400-4404 (2014)
Fluorogenic aldehydes bearing arylethynyl groups: turn-on aldol reaction sensors for evaluation of organocatalysis in DMSO.
Nobuyuki Mase*, Taishi Ando, Fumiya Shibagaki, Atsushi Sugita, Tetsuo Narumi, Mitsuo Toda, Naoharu Watanabe & Fujie Tanaka*

Tetrahedron Lett., 55(11), 1946–1948 (2014)
Imidazolium Salt-Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts-Type Conjugate Addition of Indoles: Analysis of Indole/Imidazolium Complex by High Level ab Initio Calculations.
Tetsuo Narumi, Seiji Tsuzuki & Hirokazu Tamamura

Asian J. Org. Chem., 3(4), 497-503 (2014)
Synthesis and Characterization of Quantum Dot Nanoparticles Bound to the Plant Volatile Precursor of Hydroxy-apo-10’-carotenal.
Vo Anh Tu, Atsushi Kaga, Karl-Heinz Gericke, Naoharu Watanabe, Tetsuo Narumi, Mitsuo Toda, Bernhard Brueckner, Susanne Baldermann* & Nobuyuki Mase *
J. Org. Chem., 79(15), 6808–6815 (2014)

Isostere-Based Design of 8-Azacoumarin-Type Photolabile Protecting Groups: A Hydrophilicity Increasing Strategy for Coumarin-4-ylmethyls.
Tetsuo Narumi, Hikaru Takano, Nami Ohashi, Akinobu Suzuki, Toshiaki Furuta & Hirokazu Tamamura

Org. Lett., 16(4), 1184-1187 (2014)