Education
Harry Anderson studied chemistry at University of Oxford, where he received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987.
Harry Anderson studied chemistry at University of Oxford, where he received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987.
He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems (porphyrin nanorings and nanowires) and exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of the large pi-conjugate systems He is currently professor of chemistry at Keble College, Oxford. He continued his study at University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor
Jeremy Sanders Federal Reserve System, and received his doctoral degree in 1990.
He 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 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule -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. In May 2013, he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society.
Template directed syntheses ubiquitously exist in nature (protein biosynthesis, etc), which provides inspiration for synthesizing artificial supramolecular systems
Using porphyrin monomers/oligomers and molecular templates of various sizes, porphyrin nanoring systems can be constructed with high versatility. These supramolecular systems also bear appealing coordination properties, providing inspirations for the coordination phenomena existing in nature. Vernier templating refers to the syntheses of complexes using templates and molecular building blocks with mismatching coordination numbers in order 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 realizing 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. lieutenant was found that elongated/encapsulated pi-conjugate systems constructed by porphyrins showed unprecedented physical properties in charge transfer, two-photon absorption, et cetera, thereby providing physicists and photobiologists new candidates and inspirations in their research.
Honours and 2013 Fellow of The Royal Society.
Royal Society.