Professor Makoto Fujita
PROPOSED CITATION
In view of constructing nanoscale discrete structures, Fujita has pioneered a novel principle of metal-directed self-assembly, in which transition-metal ions induce the spontaneous formation of targeted large frameworks. His method features an extremely elegant use of palladium's square planar coordination geometry which was first demonstrated in 1990 by the selfassembly of a Pd(II)-bipyridine square complex. Later on, a large variety of related molecules has been synthesized such as, in particular, cages, capsules, tubes, catenanes, and spheres. Most of these structures have large hydrophobic cavities, within which Fujita elaborated and studied unique molecular recognition events that led to controlled chemical reactions and induced physical properties, at a very early stage of this research area. These earlier studies have strongly contributed to trigger the rapid development of molecular selfassembly
in the course of the last twenty years. Since 1994, Fujita has also strongly contributed to the field of porous coordination networks.
EDUCATION AND MAIN POSITIONS HELD:
1982 Ms Degree from the Chiba University
1987 Ph D from Tokyo Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Dr.Tamejiro Hiyama (Formal superviser: Prof. Takeshi Nakai)
1982-1988 Researcher at Sagami Chemical Research Center with Drs. I. Ojima and T. Hiyama
1988 Research Assistant at Chiba University
1991 Lecturer at Chiba University
1994 Associate Professor at Chiba University
1996.4-10 Visiting Researcher at Université Louis Pasteur, France
1997 Associate Professor at Institure for Molecular Science
1999 Professor at Nagoya University
2002 Professor at Tokyo University
AWARDS AND NAME LECTURES
2009.4 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT:
Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
2007.10 - Leader of the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) project of Japan Science and Technology Agency.
2007.5 Honorary professor at the Department of Chemistry, Renmin University
2006.4 G.W.Wheland Award (Chicago University)
2004.6 International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry
2003.12 Silver Medal of Nagoya Medal Seminar
2003.4 Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lectures in Chemistry (UC Berkeley)
2002.10 - 2007.9 Leader of the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) project of Japan Science and Technology Agency
2002.4 Visiting Professor, Université Louis Pasteur
2001.10 Japan IBM Award
2001.4 Gold Medal of Tokyo Techno Forum 21
2000 The Divisional Award of the Chemical Society of Japan
1999.4 Visiting Professor, Université Louis Pasteur
1997.10 - 2002.9 Leader of the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) project of Japan Science and Technology Corporation.
1994 Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD
On the Editorial Board and Advisory Board of the following journals (passed and present) :
* Chemistry - an Asian Journal
* Chemistry - European Journal
* Nanotechnology
* Chem. Commun. (RSC)
* Crystal Engineering (Elsevier)
PUBLICATIONS AND CITATIONS
About 220 publications between 1980 and 2009 ; more than 300 lectures and seminars at international or Japanese meetings, in universities or in industrial or governmental research centres.
According to ISI Web of Knowledge, Makoto Fujita is a "Most-Cited Scientists in Chemistry" (around 14,000 citations). His h-index is equal to 62.
Abstract
Emergent Self-assembly of Molecular Spheres
