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We're excited to share the newest work from the Rowan Lab, "Balancing ring and stopper group size to control the stability of doubly threaded [3] rotaxanes”, published this week in OBC Jerald Hertzog Stuart Rowan UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Just out in Angewandte Chemie: our most challenging study on controlling C60 bis-addition selectivity yet (itero, regio, diastereo). Thanks to xribas's nanocapsule and our favorite💍[10]CPP we got 87% selectivity for the "in,out-trans-3" catenane isomer 👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Don't miss research in our latest issue by Stuart Rowan & co UChicago Chemistry UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering on balancing ring and stopper group size to control the stability of doubly threaded [3]rotaxanes Check out their full report here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

In this paper, we introduce DESC💡 A truly rewarding collaboration with computational photochemists Igor Schapiro Jonathan Church and spectroscopists from 🇫🇮 @TPRuoko Nikita Durandin @APriimagi science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Beyond thrilled to share my first author paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Learn more about the toughening mechanism of rotaxane cross-linked polymers "Sacrificial Mechanical Bond"!! Thanks to my collaborators! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Together with Harry Anderson Group we made an antiaromatic carbon allotrope. It is a molecule called cyclo[16]carbon. And it even is doubly-antiaromatic. What that means and how that was done, you can read in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Next, the mechanical bond. Making complicated organic molecules is hard enough without trying to thread them through each other. Featuring Fraser Stoddart Steve Goldup Dave Leigh and more chemistryworld.com/features/the-m…

Explore one of our #MostRead papers this year ⚡The Grignard Reaction – Unraveling a Chemical Puzzle by Raphael Mathias Peltzer, Jürgen Gauss, Odile Eisenstein & Michele Cascella 🔓 #OpenAccess 📖 Read the full article here: go.acs.org/7oS

Assembly and Utility of a Drawstring-Mimetic Supramolecular Complex (Huan Cong and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Prof. Stuart Rowan and his team at UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have developed a material that can change from a rubber band-like material to a ball of silly putty to a flexible sheet of plastic or a stiff, molded device. pme.uchicago.edu/news/pluripote…

Extremely excited to share one of my final PhD projects on ChemRxiv! We take dynamic zirconocene chemistry to the limit, ultimately making a nanocarbon so large and entangled we ended up defining a new class of molecular topology to best describe it! shorturl.at/kqsv3 1/8

I'm very pleased to share our work on the force-controlled release of small molecules with a rotaxane actuator. Published today in nature thanks to the incredible work of Lei Chen and Rob Nixon! nature.com/articles/s4158… #OpenAccess The University of Manchester UoM Chemistry

Happy #FluorescentFriday purifying more pyrene derivatives today!

Check out our recent work on doubly threaded slide-ring networks just out in Angewandte Chemie

Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks (Stuart J. Rowan and co-workers) UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering UChicago Chemistry Jongwon Oh ⌬ Mike Liu ⌬ Hojin Kim Jerald Hertzog Stuart Rowan #AngewandteVIP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Just in time for Halloween💀☠️ skeletal editing of rotaxanes! Maxime Gauthier, Jess & Dan use Mark Levin’s N-deletion reagent to remove template site of dibenzylammonium rotaxanes enabling synthesis of otherwise inaccessible structures.Out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate and cherished member of Northwestern. His groundbreaking contributions transformed the field of #chemistry and inspired countless scientists worldwide. ➡️ bit.ly/stoddart-in-me…