Excited to see my first paper out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. today on molecular pumping! Thanks to everyone involved Dave Leigh Chong Tian Stephen Fielden and Inigo! 💍💍 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

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Advances in synthesis & analysis enable old claims to be reexamined with new tools🔎🕵️ In J. Am. Chem. Soc., Andrei Baluna @AlbanoGalan @JustinTJSpence et al retrace footprints in the sands of history in search of the 1st catenane: was it molecule or merely myth? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

In Search of Wasserman’s Catenane UoM Chemistry The University of Manchester #Wasserman #Catenane #Synthesis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Did Ed Wasserman put a ring on it? Andrei Baluna @JustinTJSpence & Albano Galan investigate🕵️‍♂️: chemistryworld.com/news/new-resul…

For six years, David Leigh’s team sought to show that Wasserman’s 1960 claim of the first interlocked pair of rings, which he called a catenane, was wrong. But after Leigh’s group painstakingly reproduced Wasserman’s work, he believes otherwise. chemistryworld.com/news/new-resul…

🕵️‍♂️🔎 Check out one of the most read open access articles published in JACS "In Search of Wasserman’s Catenane" Read the full article here ➡️ go.acs.org/4W7

Fun story about a 1960 paper that - if its findings are real - led to the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 'molecular machines'. It claimed the first molecules that interlock mechanically - but many researchers have doubted its findings, until now. chemistryworld.com/news/new-resul…

Information read off an encoded track by switching ”ON” a transient fluorescence response - Our latest work in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Many thanks to the team for making this happen (Marcel, Burkhard, Salma Kassem, Dan, Dean Thomas, Loli Varela and Dave Leigh). pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…