Fukui, Kenichi

Fukui, Kenichi. (1918-1998). A Japanese professor who was corecipient of the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Hoffmann in 1981. His work involved quantum mechanical studies of chemical reactivity. Fukui s entire career has been at Kyoto University. 

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Fukui, Kenichi (1918-98) Japanese chemist who demonstrated how chemical reactions were essentially a question of the interaction of only two of the orbital electrons of the interacting atoms. Fukui called these frontier orbitals and showed how chemical reactions were partly determined by the symmetry of frontier orbitals. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Roald Hoffmann. 

Fukui, Kenichi (1918-98) Japanese physical and theoretical chemist. Fukui is best known for his work on frontier orbital theory, a theory which describes the changes in molecular orbitals during a chemical reaction. He was particularly interested in applying frontier orbital theory to the reactions of methyl radicals. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Roald HOFFMANN for his work on frontier orbital theory. He also studied the reaction between nitrogen molecules and transition metal complexes. 

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