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Our Journey Pursuing Innovative Reactions, Synthetic Strategy, and Molecules

• Catalytic transformations of inert bonds such as C-H, C-O, C-S bonds
• Taming unstable sulfonium intermediates for organic synthesis
• Aromatic Metamorphosis (Skeletal Editing or Structural Reprogramming of Aromatic Rings)

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• “Aromatic Metamorphosis: Skeletal Editing of Aromatic Rings”
  Hideki Yorimitsu*, Acc. Chem. Res. 2025, ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00091
• “Sulfonium-aided coupling of aromatic rings via sigmatropic rearrangement”
  Hideki Yorimitsu* and Gregory J. P. Perry*, Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B. 2022, 98, 190–205. DOI: 10.2183/pjab.98.012
• “Catalytic Transformations of Sulfonium Salts via C-S Bond Activation”
  Hideki Yorimitsu*, Chem. Rec. 2021, 21, 3356–3369. DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202000172
• “Cascades of Interrupted Pummerer Reaction-Sigmatropic Rearrangement”
  Hideki Yorimitsu*, Chem. Rec. 2017, 17, 1156–1167. DOI: 10.1002/tcr.201700017
• “Aromatic metamorphosis: conversion of an aromatic skeleton into a different ring system”
  Keisuke Nogi and Hideki Yorimitsu*, Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 4055–4065. DOI: 10.1039/C7CC00078B
• “Cross-coupling of Aryl Sulfides Powered by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands”
  Ke Gao, Shinya Otsuka, Alexandre Baralle, Keisuke Nogi, Hideki Yorimitsu* and Atsuhiro Osuka, J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn. 2016, 74, 1119–1127. DOI: 10.5059/yukigoseikyokaishi.74.1119
• “Aromatic Metamorphosis of Dibenzothiophenes”
  Hideki Yorimitsu*, Dhananjayan Vasu, M. Bhanuchandra, Kei Murakami and Atsuhiro Osuka, Synlett 2016, 27, 1765–1774. DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1561617