Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui
BornOctober 4, 1918
Ikoma District, Nara, Japan
DiedJanuary 9, 1998 (aged 79)
Kyoto, Japan
NationalityJapanese
CitizenshipJapan
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Known forFrontier orbitals[2]
Fukui function
SpouseTomoe Horie (m.1947)
ChildrenTetsuya Fukui(son) and Miyako Fukui(daughter)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsKyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto University
Doctoral advisorShinjiro Kodama
Doctoral studentsKeiji Morokuma
Gernot Frenking

Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist.[1] He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Fukui's prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is, the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

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  3. ^ Fukui, Kenichi (19 November 1982). "Role of Frontier Orbitals in Chemical Reactions". Science. 218 (4574). "The article is published here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation and will also be included in the complete volume of Les Prix Nobel en 1982 as well as in the series Nobel Lectures (in English) published by the Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam and New York.". AAAS: 747–754. Bibcode:1982Sci...218..747F. doi:10.1126/science.218.4574.747. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1689733. PMID 17771019. S2CID 268306. EBSCOhost 84712238. Gale A2523333.
  4. ^ Fukui, Kenichi; Yonezawa, Teijiro; Shingu, Haruo (April 1952). "A Molecular Orbital Theory of Reactivity in Aromatic Hydrocarbons". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 20 (4). American Institute of Physics: 722–725. Bibcode:1952JChPh..20..722F. doi:10.1063/1.1700523. eISSN 1089-7690. ISSN 0021-9606.
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  7. ^ Hargittai, István (April 1995). "Fukui and Hoffman: Two Conversations — [Fukui conversation]". The Chemical Intelligencer. Vol. 1, no. 2. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. pp. 14–18. ISSN 0947-0662.
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