Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1988)
ForMemRS (1989)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto University
Doctoral advisor
Shinjiro Kodama
Doctoral students
Keiji 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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^Fukui, K (November 1982). "Role of Frontier Orbitals in Chemical Reactions". Science. 218 (4574): 747–754. Bibcode:1982Sci...218..747F. doi:10.1126/science.218.4574.747. PMID 17771019. S2CID 268306.
^Fukui, K.; Yonezawa, T.; Shingu, H. (1952). "A Molecular Orbital Theory of Reactivity in Aromatic Hydrocarbons". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 20 (4): 722. Bibcode:1952JChPh..20..722F. doi:10.1063/1.1700523.
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