| The first isolable dialkylsilylene [1] M Kira, S Ishida, T Iwamoto, C Kabuto Journal of the American Chemical Society 121 (41), 9722-9723, 1999 | 479 | 1999 |
| A stable silicon-based allene analogue with a formally sp-hybridized silicon atom S Ishida, T Iwamoto, C Kabuto, M Kira Nature 421 (6924), 725-727, 2003 | 293 | 2003 |
| Chemistry of organosilicon compounds M Kira, M Akiyama, H Sakurai Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 271 (1-3), 23-31, 1984 | 281* | 1984 |
| Progress in the chemistry of stable disilenes M Kira, T Iwamoto Advances in Organometallic Chemistry 54, 73-148, 2006 | 235 | 2006 |
| Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 287. Synthesis and x-ray structure of the first dicoordinate dialkylstannylene that is monomeric in the solid state M Kira, R Yauchibara, R Hirano, C Kabuto, H Sakurai Journal of the American Chemical Society 113 (20), 7785-7787, 1991 | 186 | 1991 |
| An isolable dialkylsilylene and its derivatives. A step toward comprehension of heavy unsaturated bonds M Kira Chemical communications 46 (17), 2893-2903, 2010 | 181 | 2010 |
| Isolable silylene, disilenes, trisilaallene, and related compounds M Kira Journal of organometallic chemistry 689 (24), 4475-4488, 2004 | 171 | 2004 |
| Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 240. Pentacoordinate allylsilicates: characterization and highly stereoselective reaction with aldehydes M Kira, K Sato, H Sakurai Journal of the American Chemical Society 110 (14), 4599-4602, 1988 | 166 | 1988 |
| Trigermaallene and 1, 3-digermasilaallene T Iwamoto, H Masuda, C Kabuto, M Kira Organometallics 24 (2), 197-199, 2005 | 154 | 2005 |
| Chemistry of organosilicon compounds. 292. An NMR study of the formation of silyloxonium ions by using tetrakis [3, 5-bis (trifluoromethyl) phenyl] borate as counteranion M Kira, T Hino, H Sakurai Journal of the American Chemical Society 114 (17), 6697-6700, 1992 | 154 | 1992 |
| Intermolecular donation of a. sigma.-electron from group IVb catenates to tetracyanoethylene. Evidence of electron paramagnetic resonance and charge-transfer spectra H Sakurai, M Kira, T Uchida Journal of the American Chemical Society 95 (20), 6826-6827, 1973 | 136 | 1973 |
| The first stable cyclic disilene: hexakis (trialkylsilyl) tetrasilacyclobutene M Kira, T Iwamoto, C Kabuto Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (42), 10303-10304, 1996 | 132 | 1996 |
| Stereohomogeneous synthesis of (E)-and (Z)-crotyltrifluorosilanes and highly stereoselective allylation of aldehydes M Kira, T Hino, H Sakurai Tetrahedron letters 30 (9), 1099-1102, 1989 | 127 | 1989 |
| Regiospecific and highly stereoselective allylation of aldehydes with allyltrifluorosilane activated by fluoride ions. M Kira, M Kobayashi, H Sakurai Tetrahedron letters 28 (35), 4081-4084, 1987 | 127 | 1987 |
| Synthesis, properties, and reactions of a series of stable dialkyl-substituted silicon− chalcogen doubly bonded compounds T Iwamoto, K Sato, S Ishida, C Kabuto, M Kira Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (51), 16914-16920, 2006 | 126 | 2006 |
| Stable tetrakis (trialkylsilyl) disilenes; synthesis, X-ray structures, and UV/VIS spectra M Kira, T Maruyama, C Kabuto, K Ebata, H Sakurai Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 33 (14), 1489-1491, 1994 | 120 | 1994 |
| The first stable cyclotrisilene T Iwamoto, C Kabuto, M Kira Journal of the American Chemical Society 121 (4), 886-887, 1999 | 119 | 1999 |
| Dual fluorescence of aryldisilanes and related compounds: evidence for the formation of 1 (. sigma.. pi.*) orthogonal intramolecular charge-transfer states H Sakurai, H Sugiyama, M Kira Journal of Physical Chemistry 94 (5), 1837-1843, 1990 | 110 | 1990 |
| Bis (diisopropylamino) silylene and its dimer S Tsutsui, K Sakamoto, M Kira Journal of the American Chemical Society 120 (38), 9955-9956, 1998 | 109 | 1998 |
| A helmeted dialkylsilylene M Kira, T Iwamoto, S Ishida Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 80 (2), 258-275, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
