Masatake Haruta

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Masatake Haruta ( Japanese 春 田 正毅 , Haruta Masatake ; born September 27, 1947 in Tajimi , Gifu Prefecture ) is a Japanese chemist . He has been known for research into catalysis by nanoparticles and clusters of gold since the 1980s.

Life

Haruta studied chemical engineering at the Nagoya University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and received his doctorate in 1976 as a chemical engineer at the University of Kyoto . He then did research on hydrogen as an energy carrier at the Osaka National Research Institute (ONRI). In 1981/82 Haruta spent a year at the Catholic University of Leuven with Bernard Delmon . In 1990 he became head of the catalysis department and in 1999 director of the energy and environment department at ONRI. In 2001 he became director of the Green Technology Research Institute at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba . In 2005 he became a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University .

While gold used to be classified as chemically inert and not suitable as a catalyst, Haruta showed in 1987 that it is well suited for catalysis in the form of nanoparticles (diameter less than 10 nanometers). At that time, he showed that gold particles of 5 nm in size on suitable substrates (metal oxides) could serve as catalysts for the oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide even at low temperatures. This created a rapidly developing new field of catalysis and enabled new, more environmentally friendly (solvent-free) processes in industrial organic chemistry (" green chemistry "). Later, Haruta and colleagues also showed that gold could serve as a catalyst for the oxidative degradation of the environmental toxin dioxin at low temperatures.

In 1994 he was visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology .

In 2011 he received the Spiers Memorial Award. for outstanding contributions to the chemistry of gold and the establishment of a new area of ​​catalysis with gold .

Haruta has been President of the Japanese Catalysis Society since 2011, and received its Science Award in 2002. In 2009 he received the Japanese Chemical Society Prize, in 1998 the President’s Prize for Outstanding Research from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Henry J. Albert Award from the International Precious Metals Institute in 2002 and the Osaka Science Prize in 1997. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (2009).

Fonts

  • When gold is not noble: catalysis by nanoparticles , Chem. Record, Volume 3, 2003, pp. 75-87.
  • with T. Ishida Gold Catalysts. Towards sustainable chemistry . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 46, 2007, pp. 7154-7156

annotation

  1. ↑ References to the suitability of gold as a catalyst were already found in the 1970s, but little attention was paid back then. Graham Hutchings also began researching gold catalysts in the 1980s . Research on the surprising properties of gold as a catalyst received further impetus in the late 1990s from Stephen Hashmi (then Frankfurt, now Heidelberg University) in organic chemistry.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV (PDF; 109 kB; English)
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Masatake Haruta at academictree.org, accessed on February 8 2018th
  3. ↑ Haruta, T. Kobayashi, H. Sano, N. Yamada, Chem. Lett., 1987, pp. 405-408
  4. ^ Spiers Memorial Award 2011 for Haruta
personal data
SURNAME Haruta, Masatake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 春 田正毅 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tajimi , Gifu Prefecture