Fraser Stoddart

Sir
Fraser Stoddart
FRS FRSE HonFRSC
Sir Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University October 2016, by Jim Prisching
Born
James Fraser Stoddart

(1942-05-24) 24 May 1942 (age 82)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
United States
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (BSc, PhD)
Known forMechanical Bond in Chemistry
Molecular shuttles and Molecular switches
Artificial Molecular Machines
Template-Directed Synthesis
Chemical Topology
Stereochemistry
Metal-Organic Frameworks
Cyclodextrin Chemistry
Spouse
Norma Agnes Scholan
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(m. 1968; died 2004)​
[5][6][7]
ChildrenTwo[5]
Fiona Jane McCubbin
Alison Margaret Stoddart
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical Organic Chemistry
Lock-and-Key Chemistry
Unnatural Product Synthesis
Molecular Nanotechnology
InstitutionsQueen's University (1967–1969)
University of Sheffield (1970–1990)
ICI Corporate Laboratory, Runcorn (1978–1981)
University of Birmingham (1990–1997)
University of California, Los Angeles (1997–2007)
Northwestern University (2008– )
Tianjin University (2014– )
University of New South Wales (2018– )
University of Hong Kong (2023– )
Theses
Doctoral advisor
Other academic advisors
  • J K N (Ken) Jones FRS
  • W David Ollis FRS
Notable studentsDavid Leigh Narayanaswamy Jayaraman[4]
Douglas Philp
Websitestoddart.northwestern.edu
President Barack Obama greets the 2016 American Nobel Prize winners in the Oval Office, 30 November 2016, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Right), Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from Northwestern University,
Crystal structure of a rotaxane with a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) macrocycle reported by Stoddart and coworkers in the Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 2565–2571.
Crystal structure of a catenane with a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) macrocycle reported by Stoddart and coworkers in the Chem. Commun., 1991, 634–639.
Crystal structure of molecular Borromean rings reported by Stoddart and coworkers Science 2004, 304, 1308–1312.

Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE HonFRSC[1] (born 24 May 1942[5]) is a British-American chemist who is Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.[8] He has also been Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States.[9] He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches.[10] His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).[11] His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards, including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science.[12][13][14] He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.[2][15][16][17][18]

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  3. ^ a b "James Fraser Stoddart: Curriculum Vitae, Full Version" (PDF). stoddart.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2016.
  4. ^ "2009 winner of the RSC Merck Award". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
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  7. ^ "Norma Stoddart (Obituary)". The Scotsman. 16 February 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  8. ^ "Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart joins HKU as Chair Professor of Chemistry - All News - Media - HKU".
  9. ^ "Nanotechnology Star Fraser Stoddart to Join Northwestern". NewsCenter. Northwestern University. 16 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  10. ^ A. Coskun, M. Banaszak, R. D. Astumian, J. F. Stoddart, B. A. Grzybowski, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 19–30
  11. ^ A. Coskun, J. M. Spruell, G. Barin, W. R. Dichtel, A. H. Flood, Y. Y. Botros, J. F. Stoddart. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41 (14), 4827–59.
  12. ^ The Scientists' Channel. "Sir James Fraser Stoddart". www.thescientistschannel.com. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Stoddart Wins King Faisal International Prize". Chemical & Engineering News. 85 (12): 71. 19 March 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  14. ^ "Fraser Stoddart is awarded the 2007 King Faisal International Prize for Science". California NanoSystems Institute. 17 January 2007. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007.
  15. ^ Chang, Kenneth; Chan, Sewell (5 October 2016). "3 Makers of 'World's Smallest Machines' Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  16. ^ Davis, Nicola; Sample, Ian (5 October 2016). "live". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  17. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016". NobelPrize.org.
  18. ^ Van Noorden, Richard; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "World's tiniest machines win chemistry Nobel". Nature. 538 (7624): 152–153. Bibcode:2016Natur.538..152V. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20734. PMID 27734892.