Kenichi Fukui Quotes

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad – if any – in the application of their scientific research.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings.

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.