Chemistry International
Vol. 21, No.4, July 1999
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Chemistry International
Vol. 21, No. 4
July 199940th IUPAC Council Meeting
Free University,
Berlin, Germany,
13-14 August 1999Election of Officers and Bureau Members: Bureau
President
Vice President
Past-President
Secretary General
Treasurer—Vacancy
Bureau—Four Vacancies (Minimum)
..Prof. S. Chandrasekaran
..Prof. Pavel Kratochvil
..Prof. G. Jeffrey Leigh
.. Prof. Nicole J. Moreau
..Prof. Oleg M. Nefedov
..Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki
..Prof. Gerhard M. Schneider
..Prof. Pieter S. Steyn
Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki (Japan)
Prof. Hitoshi OhtakiProf. Ohtaki was born 16 September 1932 in Tokyo.
Education and Career: Prof. Ohtaki graduated from the Faculty of Science, Nagoya University in 1955 and obtained M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. degrees in 1957 and 1961, respectively, from Nagoya University. He studied complex equilibria under Prof. L. G. Sillen, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as a postdoctoral research fellow (1961 to 1964). After graduate school, Prof. Ohtaki was appointed Research Associate, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1959); Lecturer (1965) and then Associate Professor (1967), Nagoya University; Associate Professor (1970) and then Professor (1973), Tokyo Institute of Technology; Professor (1988) of the Institute for Molecular Science of the Okazaki National Research Institutes, Director of the Coordination Chemistry Laboratories of the Institute for Molecular Science, and also Dean of the School of Mathematical and Physical Science of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. He was named Emeritus Professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in 1993. He was appointed a professor at Ritsumeikan University in 1993 and Director of the Institute of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University in 1994. Over the course of his career, Prof. Ohtaki has served as a visiting professor in Sweden, Austria, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Awards: Prof. Ohtaki received the Matsunaga Prize in 1976, the Tejima Memorial Award in 1989, the Takei Prize of the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 1990, and the National Medal of Purple Ribbon in 1995.
IUPAC Offices and Assignments: Prof. Ohtaki was a member of the Commission on Equilibrium Data (V.6) of the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC from 1975 to 1993 (Associate Member, 1975-79; Titular Member, 1979-85; Secretary, 1981-83; Chairman, 1983-85; National Representative, 1985-89; and Coopted Member of the Division 1989-93). He was also a member of the Inoganic Chemistry Division from 1987 to 1991. He is currently a bureau member of IUPAC, as well as a member of the Executive Committee.
Related Professional Activities: Prof. Ohtaki has been President of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies since 1997, was formerly President of the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry, and also previously served as President of the Association of Japanese Solution Chemists, for which he is now an adviser. He is the chairman of the Committee for International Affairs of the Chemical Society of Japan. Prof. Ohtaki organized the 6th International Symposium on Solute-Solute-Solvent Interactions in 1982 at Minoo, Osaka, Japan. He was the chairman of the 2nd and 4th Eurasia Conferences on Chemical Sciences held in Seoul, Korea (1992) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1994), and, as Secretary General, he organized the 30th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry held in Kyoto, Japan (1994). He is the representative of the Chemical Society of Japan for the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies and the vice-chairman of the 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM'95). He is also the chairman of the 26th International Conference on Solution Chemistry taking place in Fukuoka, Japan in July of 1999. Prof. Ohtaki is a member of the editorial boards of J. Molecular Liquids, J. Solution Chemistry, J. Brazilian Chemical Society, and J. Malaysian Chemical Society. He is a member of the Science Council of Japan (Vice President of Division 4, Natural Sciences).
Research Activities and Interests: Prof. Ohtaki's research interests cover various areas of solution chemistry and coordination chemistry, especially structural chemistry of solutions, including solvents, solvated ions, and complexes existing in solution by means of solution X-ray diffraction. He has also employed EXAFS and neutron diffraction methods in his investigations. He has undertaken thermodynamic studies on solution equilibria; his molecular dynamics simulation studies on dissolution and nucleation processes of crystals have shed new light on the dynamic chemistry of ionic solvation and crystal growth. Recently, his interests are focusing on structural studies of supercritical water and other liquids and solvation structures of ions in supercritical fluids. He has recently been determining structures of short-lived reaction intermediates by the stopped-flow-EXAFS method newly developed by his group.
Prof. Ohtaki has published more than 300 research papers and reviews. He has authored and coauthored five books, and edited and coedited three more books. Prof. Ohtaki has authored chapters in more than 17 books. His book Chemistry of Reactions in Solutions has been translated into Chinese. He has translated into Japanese books written by Prof. Viktor Gutmann of Austria and by Prof. Kalman Burger of Hungary.
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