Makoto Fujita (chemist)

Makoto Fujita (藤田 誠, Fujita Makoto) is a Japanese chemist who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry.

Makoto Fujita
藤田 誠
Born1957
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materChiba University (BS, MS)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forMetal–organic framework
AwardsArthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2013)
Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018)
Clarivate Citation Laureate (2020)
Asahi Prize (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsNagoya University
University of Tokyo

Career

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with Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako (at the Building of Japan Academy on 17 June 2019)

He is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He has published extensively on the multicomponent assembly of large coordination cages. Compounds designed and prepared in his research group are variously described as three-dimensional synthetic receptors, coordination assemblies, molecular paneling, molecular flasks, crystalline sponges, and coordination capsules.[1][2][3]

He shared the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Omar Yaghi "for conceiving metal-directed assembly principles leading to large highly porous complexes".

Hideki Shirakawa predicted in 2014 that Fujita would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[4]

Recognition

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Structure of Fujita's {[Pd(en)]6L4}12+ (en = ethylenediamine, L = tripyridine ligand CH3CO2C(C5H4N)3).[5]

References

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  1. ^ Inokuma, Yasuhide; Yoshioka, Shota; Ariyoshi, Junko; Arai, Tatsuhiko; Hitora, Yuki; Takada, Kentaro; Matsunaga, Shigeki; Rissanen, Kari; Fujita, Makoto (28 March 2013). "X-ray analysis on the nanogram to microgram scale using porous complexes". Nature. 495 (7442): 461–466. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..461I. doi:10.1038/nature11990. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23538828. S2CID 4308105.
  2. ^ Fujita, Makoto; Tominaga, Masahide; Hori, Akiko; Therrien, Bruno (2005). "Coordination Assemblies from a Pd(II)-Cornered Square Complex". Accounts of Chemical Research. 38 (4): 369–378. doi:10.1021/ar040153h. PMID 15835883.
  3. ^ Yoshizawa, Michito; Klosterman, Jeremy K.; Fujita, Makoto (2009). "Functional Molecular Flasks: New Properties and Reactions within Discrete, Self-Assembled Hosts". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48 (19): 3418–3438. doi:10.1002/anie.200805340. PMID 19391140.
  4. ^ Ando, Satoko. "化学の常識を覆した"自己組織化"の未来" [The future of “self-assembly” that overturns common sense in chemistry]. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  5. ^ Fujita, Makoto; Yu, Shu-Yan; Kusukawa, Takahiro; Funaki, Hidenori; Ogura, Katsuyuki; Yamaguchi, Kentaro (1998). "Self-Assembly of Nanometer-Sized Macrotricyclic Complexes from Ten Small Component Molecules". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48 (15): 3418–3438. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980817)37:15<2082::AID-ANIE2082>3.0.CO;2-0. PMID 29711041.
  6. ^ "「ウルフ賞」受賞 藤田誠さん 「化学の日本」たすき次代へ". 日本経済新聞. 17 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Distinguished Prof. Makoto Fujita has been awarded the Asahi Prize 2022". TOPページ. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
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