Harry Anderson (chemist) explained

Harry Anderson
Birth Name:Harry Laurence Anderson
Birth Date:1964 1, df=yes
Nationality:British
Field:Organic chemistry
Thesis Title:Model Enzymes Based on Porphyrins
Thesis Year:1991
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358368
Doctoral Advisor:Jeremy Sanders
Notable Students:Ed Anderson
Known For:Porphyrin Nanorings

Harry Laurence Anderson is a British chemist in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems (porphyrin nanorings and nanowires), exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of large pi-conjugated systems, and synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon.[1] He is a Professor of Chemistry at Keble College, Oxford.[2]

Education

Harry Anderson studied chemistry at Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. This was followed by graduate studies under Jeremy Sanders at the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctoral degree in 1990.[3]

Career and Research

Anderson started his independent research as a research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990–1993, and conducted his research in 1993–1994 as SERC postdoctoral research fellow at ETH-Zürich, Switzerland. He returned to University of Oxford in 1994 as university lecturer in organic chemistry and tutor in Keble College. In 2004, he became professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Template directed syntheses ubiquitously exist in nature (protein biosynthesis, etc.), which provides inspiration for synthesising artificial supramolecular systems. Using porphyrin monomers/oligomers and molecular templates of various sizes, porphyrin nanoring systems can be constructed with high versatility.[4] [5] These supramolecular systems also bear appealing co-ordination properties, providing inspirations for the co-ordination phenomena existing in nature.[6] [7]

Vernier templating refers to the syntheses of complexes using templates and molecular building blocks with mismatching co-ordination numbers to construct larger molecular systems by incorporating more than one template molecule and more molecular building blocks than usual. Porphyrin nanoring systems are excellent examples in realising this methodology and giant artificial molecular systems with their molecular weights of small proteins can be constructed.[8] [9]

Based on the work of organic synthesis, his research interests have found wide range of collaborators from versatile academic backgrounds all over the world. It was found that elongated/encapsulated pi-conjugate systems constructed by porphyrins showed unprecedented physical properties in charge transfer,[10] [11] two-photon absorption,[12] etc., thereby providing physicists and photobiologists new candidates and inspirations in their research.

Honours and awards

Anderson's nomination for the Royal Society in 2013 reads:

Notes and References

  1. Cyclocarbon . Science . 20 September 2019 . 10.1126/science.aay1914 . Kaiser . Katharina . Scriven . L. M. . Schulz . F. . Gawel . P. . Gross . L. . Anderson . H. L. . 365 . 6459 . 1299–1301 . 31416933 . 1908.05904 . 201019470 .
  2. Web site: Professor Harry L. Anderson FRS — Keble College . . 4 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181013091134/https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/professor-h-l-anderson . 13 October 2018 . dead .
  3. Web site: Anderson Research Group@Oxford University . . 4 September 2018 .
  4. 10.1002/anie.200801188. Enhanced π Conjugation around a Porphyrin[6] Nanoring. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47. 27. 4993–4996. 2008. Hoffmann . M. . Kärnbratt . J. . Chang . M. H. . Herz . L. M. . Albinsson . B. . Anderson . H. L. . 18506860. Laura Herz .
  5. 10.1002/anie.200604601. Template-Directed Synthesis of a π-Conjugated Porphyrin Nanoring. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46. 17. 3122–3125. 2007. Hoffmann . M. . Wilson . C. J. . Odell . B. . Anderson . H. L. . 17318935.
  6. 10.1021/ja209254r. Stepwise Effective Molarities in Porphyrin Oligomer Complexes: Preorganization Results in Exceptionally Strong Chelate Cooperativity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133. 51. 20962–20969. 2011. Hogben . H. J. . Sprafke . J. K. . Hoffmann . M. . Pawlicki . M. O. . Anderson . H. L. . 22091586.
  7. 10.1002/anie.201008087. All-or-Nothing Cooperative Self-Assembly of an Annulene Sandwich. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50. 24. 5572–5575. 2011. Sprafke . J. K. . Odell . B. . Claridge . T. D. W. . Anderson . H. L. . 21544909.
  8. 10.1038/nature09683. Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring. Nature. 469. 7328. 72–75. 2011. o'Sullivan . M. C. . Sprafke . J. K. . Kondratuk . D. V. . Rinfray . C. . Claridge . T. D. W. . Saywell . A. . Blunt . M. O. . o'Shea . J. N. . Beton . P. H. . Malfois . M. . Anderson . H. L. . 21209660. 2011Natur.469...72O. 205223407.
  9. 10.1002/anie.201202870. Two Vernier-Templated Routes to a 24-Porphyrin Nanoring. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51. 27. 6696–6699. 2012. Kondratuk . D. V. . Perdigao . L. M. A. . O'Sullivan . M. C. . Svatek . S. . Smith . G. . O'Shea . J. N. . Beton . P. H. . Anderson . H. L. . 22653879.
  10. 10.1038/nnano.2011.111. Long-range electron tunnelling in oligo-porphyrin molecular wires. Nature Nanotechnology. 6. 8. 517–23. 2011. Sedghi . G. . García-Suárez . V. C. M. . Esdaile . L. J. . Anderson . H. L. . Lambert . C. J. . Martín . S. . Bethell . D. . Higgins . S. J. . Elliott . M. . Bennett . N. . MacDonald . J. E. . Nichols . R. J. . 21804555. 2011NatNa...6..517S . 5222943.
  11. 10.1039/C3SC22306J. "Push-no-pull" porphyrins for second harmonic generation imaging. Chemical Science. 4. 5. 2024. 2013. López-Duarte . I. . Reeve . J. E. . Pérez-Moreno . J. . Boczarow . I. . Depotter . G. . Fleischhauer . J. . Clays . K. . Anderson . H. L. .
  12. 10.1021/ja901244e. Synthesis and Two-Photon Spectrum of a Bis(Porphyrin)-Substituted Squaraine. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131. 22. 7510–7511. 2009. Odom . S. A. . Webster . S. . Padilha . L. A. . Peceli . D. . Hu . H. . Nootz . G. . Chung . S. J. . Ohira . S. . Matichak . J. D. . Przhonska . O. V. . Kachkovski . A. D. . Barlow . S. . BréDas . J. L. . Anderson . H. L. . Hagan . D. J. . Van Stryland . E. W. . Marder . S. R. . 19435343.
  13. Web site: Faculty & Staff / Resources / ISMSC / Awards / Izatt-Christensen Award Recipients Chemistry . www.chem.byu.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160106175708/http://www.chem.byu.edu/faculty-and-staff/resources/international-symposium-on-macrocyclic-and-supramolecular-chemistry/awards/izatt-christensen-award-recipients/ . 2016-01-06.
  14. Web site: Professor Harry Anderson FRS . dead . https://archive.today/20130705003543/http://royalsociety.org/people/harry-anderson/ . 5 July 2013 . dmy-all .
  15. Web site: RSC award archive . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053726/http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SupramolecularChemistryAward/CurrentWinner.asp . 4 March 2016 . dmy-all .
  16. Web site: Bob Hay Lectureship, RSC. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065139/http://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/InterestGroups/Macrocyclic/BobHayLectureship/. 4 March 2016. dmy-all.
  17. Web site: RSC award archive . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121022001256/http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CordayMorganPrizes/PreviousWinners.asp . 22 October 2012 . dmy-all .

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