Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa (北川 進, Kitagawa Susumu, born July 4, 1951) is a Japanese chemist working in the field of coordination chemistry, with specific focus on the chemistry of organic–inorganic hybrid compounds, as well as chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks in particular.[1] He is currently Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University, in the Institute for Integrated Cell–Material Sciences, of which he is co-founder and current director.

Susumu Kitagawa
北川 進
Born(1951-07-04)July 4, 1951
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsKyoto University
Websitehttp://www.kitagawa.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?lang=en

From 1975 to 1979, Kitagawa pursued and obtained a PhD degree in hydrocarbon chemistry, at Kyoto University, where he had previously done his undergraduate studies. He was appointed in 1979 at Kindai University as Assistant Professor, promoted first to Lecturer in 1983, and in 1988 to Associate Professor.[2] In 1992, he became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Tokyo Metropolitan University and in 1998 Professor of Inorganic Functional Chemistry at the University of Kyoto, in the department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry. In 2007 he co-founded Institute for Integrated Cell–Material Sciences, and was named Deputy Director. Since 2013 he is the Director of the Institute.

In addition to his academic positions in Japan, he was guest professor at Texas A&M University in 1986–1987, and at the City University of New York in 1996.

Awards

In 2008, he received the Humboldt Research Prize, the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2009, and the 2003 Creative Society of Japan (CSJ) Prize for Creative Work. In 2010, he was one of the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates. In 2011 he received the medal with a purple ribbon and became a member of the Science Council of Japan. He was awarded the 2017 Chemistry for the future Solvay Prize,[3] the 2019 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie[4] and Emanuel Merck Lectureship 2019.[5]

Bibliography

Professor Kitagawa has published more than 600 research articles in international journals, and these papers are cited more than 25,000 times (as of October 2017[6]). His most cited works include:

  • in 1997, a seminal report on a porous coordination polymer (MOF) for small molecule adsorption[7]
  • in 2004, an early review of functional porous coordination polymers[8]
  • in 2005, a study of dynamic properties of porous coordination polymers based on hydrogen bonds[9]
  • in 2009, a review of “soft porous crystals”, which feature large-scale structural transformability upon chemical or physical stimulation[10]

References
  1. "Susumu Kitagawa". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48 (47): 8818–8820. 9 November 2009. doi:10.1002/anie.200904270.
  2. "CV : Susumu KITAGAWA" (PDF). Kitagawa.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  3. "The 2017 Prize - Solvay". Solvay.com. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  4. "Les lauréats de l'année". Actions (in French). Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  5. "Emanuel Merck Lectureship - Research | Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany". www.emdgroup.com. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  6. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Kitagawa, Susumu)".
  7. Kondo, Mitsuru; Yoshitomi, Tomomichi; Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki; Kitagawa, Susumu; Seki, Kenji (1997). "Three-Dimensional Framework with Channeling Cavities for Small Molecules:". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 36 (16): 1725–1727. doi:10.1002/anie.199717251.
  8. Kitagawa, Susumu; Kitaura, Ryo; Noro, Shin-Ichiro (2004). "Functional Porous Coordination Polymers". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43 (18): 2334–2375. doi:10.1002/anie.200300610. PMID 15114565.
  9. Kitagawa, Susumu; Uemura, Kazuhiro (2005). "Dynamic porous properties of coordination polymers inspired by hydrogen bonds". Chemical Society Reviews. 34 (2): 109–19. doi:10.1039/B313997M. PMID 15672175.
  10. Horike, Satoshi; Shimomura, Satoru; Kitagawa, Susumu (2009). "Soft porous crystals". Nature Chemistry. 1 (9): 695–704. Bibcode:2009NatCh...1..695H. doi:10.1038/nchem.444. PMID 21124356.
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