Ken-ichi Takao, Hiroyuki Yasui, Shun Yamamoto, Daisuke Sasaki,
Soujiro Kawasaki, Gohshi Watanabe, and Kin-ichi Tadano,
“Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Mycoepoxydiene and Related Natural
Product (–)-1893A: Application of One-Pot
Ring-Opening/Cross/Ring-Closing Metathesis to Construct their
9-Oxabicyclo[4.2.1]nona-2,4-diene Skeleton” J. Org. Chem., 69, 8789 (2004)
Ken-ichi Takao, Ryosuke Munakata, and Kin-ichi Tadano, “Recent
Advances in Natural Product Synthesis by Using Intramolecular
Diels-Alder Reactions” Chem. Rev.,
105, 4779 (2005)
Ken-ichi Takao, Nobuhiko Hayakawa, Reo Yamada, Taro Yamaguchi,
Hiroshi Saegusa, Masatoshi Uchida, Suguru Samejima, and Kin-ichi Tadano, “Total
Syntheses of (+)- and (–)-Pestalotiopsin A” J. Org. Chem., 74, 6452 (2009) Featured Article
Ken-ichi
Takao, Shu Sakamoto, Marianne Ayaka Touati, Yusuke Kusakawa, and
Kin-ichi Tadano, “Asymmetric Construction of All-Carbon
Quaternary Stereocenter by Chiral-Auxiliary-Mediated Claisen
Rearrangement and Total Synthesis of (+)-Bakuchiol” Molecules, 17, 13330 (2012)
Ken-ichi
Takao, Ryuki Nanamiya, Yuuki Fukushima, Ayumi Namba, Keisuke Yoshida,
and Kin-ichi Tadano, “Total Synthesis of (+)-Clavilactone A and
(–)-Clavilactone B by Ring-Opening/Ring-Closing Metathesis” Org. Lett., 15, 5582 (2013)
Ken-ichi Takao, Shuji Noguchi, Shu Sakamoto, Mizuki Kimura, Keisuke
Yoshida, and Kin-ichi Tadano, “Total Synthesis of
(+)-Cytosporolide A via a Biomimetic Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction”
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 15971 (2015)
Ken-ichi Takao, Ryuichi Nemoto, Kento Mori, Ayumi Namba, Keisuke
Yoshida, and Akihiro Ogura, “Total Synthesis and Structural
Revision of Clavilactone D” Chem. Eur. J., 23, 3828 (2017)
Ken-ichi Takao, Hirotaka Kai, Ai Yamada, Yuuki Fukushima, Daisuke
Komatsu, Akihiro Ogura, and Keisuke Yoshida, “Total Syntheses of
(+)-Aquatolide and Related Humulanolides” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 9851 (2019)