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Daimon Sakaguchi

I am affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, and the Physical Organic Chemistry and Molecular Design Laboratory (Gotoh Laboratory). My research seeks to uncover the origins of reaction selectivity using stereoelectronic-state informatics.

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Affiliation
Yokohama National University
Research Area
Reaction selectivity informatics
Location
Japan

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I study chemical reaction selectivity by combining three-dimensional electronic states, physical organic chemistry, computational chemistry, and data-driven analysis.

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Research

Research Topics

  • Stereoelectronic-state informatics
  • Prediction and interpretation of reaction selectivity
  • Organic reaction analysis using machine learning and computational chemistry
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News

Latest Updates

  1. Our contributed book chapter in Development of Polymer Materials Using Materials Informatics was published.
  2. Received an Outstanding Poster Award at the 2026 Spring Meeting of the Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan.
  3. Our proposal was selected for the MEXT SPReAD program for exploratory AI for Science research.
  4. Posted a ChemRxiv preprint on predicting site and facial selectivity in ketone reductions.
  5. Published a study on phenol oxidative homocoupling reactivity in ACS Omega.
  6. Published a three-dimensional electronic-state analysis of asymmetric ketone reduction in J. Phys. Chem. A.
  7. Received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the 47th Chemoinformatics Discussion Meeting.

Publications

Selected Publications

Book Chapter · 2026

Three-Dimensional Electronic-Field Analysis Governing Reaction Selectivity

Daimon Sakaguchi and Hiroaki Gotoh. In Development of Polymer Materials Using Materials Informatics, Chapter 2, Section 4, pp. 213–225, Technical Information Institute, 2026. (Contributed chapter)

Preprint · 2026

Kinetics-Based Framework for Predicting Site- and Facial-Selectivity in Ketone Reductions

Daimon Sakaguchi, Taisei Kawasaki, Mayu Itakura, Chihiro Tada, Hiroaki Gotoh. ChemRxiv, 2026.

Graphical abstract for the three-dimensional electronic-state analysis of asymmetric ketone reduction

2025

Analysis of Asymmetric Reduction of Ketones Using Three-Dimensional Electronic States

Daimon Sakaguchi, Masaki Shimono, Hiroaki Gotoh. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2025.

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