Kenichi Fukui

Japanese chemist (1918–1998)

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Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist who developed important theories explaining how electrons behave in chemical reactions, work for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. His ideas fundamentally changed how scientists understand and predict which molecules will react with each other, making his contributions central to modern chemistry.

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Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode
· 1972 · cited 31,672x
Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence
· 2012 · cited 7,791x
Regulation of Ferroptotic Cancer Cell Death by GPX4
· 2014 · cited 6,803x
The path of chemical reactions - the IRC approach
· 1981 · cited 6,277x
Lenvatinib versus sorafenib in first-line treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial

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Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi; October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. 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).

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