What was Kenichi Fukui's groundbreaking work about?
Atomic structure
Biochemistry
Frontier orbitals in chemical reactions
Astrochemistry
Answer
Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. His groundbreaking work was on frontier orbitals in chemical reactions. Frontier orbitals are the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMOs) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMOs) in a molecule. They are important in determining the reactivity of a molecule.
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