Harry Laurence Anderson is a British chemist in the Department of Chemistry,

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. He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems (

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s and

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), exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of large pi-conjugated systems, and synthesis of cyclo 8arbon. He is a Professor of Chemistry at Keble College, Oxford.

Education

Harry Anderson studied chemistry at

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, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. This was followed by graduate studies under Jeremy Sanders at the

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, where he received his doctoral degree in 1990.

Career and Research

Anderson started his independent research as a

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at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990–1993, and conducted his research in 1993–1994 as SERC

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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

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s/ oligomers and molecular templates of various sizes, porphyrin nanoring systems can be constructed with high versatility. These supramolecular systems also bear appealing co-ordination properties, providing inspirations for the co-ordination phenomena existing in nature. 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. 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, two-photon absorption, etc., thereby providing physicists and photobiologists new candidates and inspirations in their research.

Honours and awards

* 2017 Izatt-Christensen Award (in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry) * 2013 Elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

. *2008 Merck-Karl Pfister Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry,

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, USA *2006 RSC Industrially-Sponsored Award for Supramolecular Chemistry *2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Materials Chemistry *2003 Bob Hay Lecturer (Royal Society of Chemistry, Macrocyclic Chemistry) *2001 Corday Morgan Medal and Prize from the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Royal Instit ...

*1995 Nuffield Foundation Award to Newly Appointed Science Lecturers *1993 NATO/SERC Research Fellowship Anderson's nomination for the Royal Society in 2013 reads:

References

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