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Finally, after 5 years working on it with Stefan Borsley and Dave Leigh, here is our review on ratchet mechanisms in molecular machines and beyond onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…. This started out as the intro to my report for my first year of PhD

Ben Roberts 🇪🇺 Dave Leigh And see here for Ben Roberts 🇪🇺’s own take!

How do you make low-symmetry molecular organic cages using symmetrical building blocks? In new work out in Chemical Science we exploit “conformational autodesymmetrisation” to do just that. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

In wonderful Osaka for the 10th Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment (CASE) symposium. Looking forward to talking about some of the synthesis we have been doing!

2024 PhD recruitment ad now up on FindAPhD: tinyurl.com/59ayed5z PhD - Enhanced stipend (£26k tax free) at The Crick and King's Chemistry to work on Tunable Metal-Peptidic Cages for de novo enzyme formation and Drug Delivery! McTernan Group See tinyurl.com/3zdhmc7r for more!

I'm excited to be joining the editorial team at Early Popular Visual Culture as a special issues editor. Current special issue on British silents, more coming soon tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/22/…

Happy to share some recent work on a dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation just out in Chemical Science with Andrew Smith. Well done everyone involved, especially Aífe (now in Manchester Greaney Group)! #compchem ADS Group St Andrews School of Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I found an application for my research

Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction (Benjamin M. W. Roberts and co-workers) #AngewandteReview #openaccess Dave Leigh onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Thank you to Durham Chemistry (particularly VerletNet and Jonathan Steed) for trying to help and bridge this gap. I’m now able to buy some equipment that’ll transform my efficiency in the lab. Happy days!

A new element makes its way into the Watson Group repertoire! Check out our first foray into the world of germanium in the context of CuAAC chemistry, in collaboration with Burley Research Group! The pre-print is available here on ChemRxiv: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

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Just published! 🥳 Our review covers the extensive solid form landscape of carbamazepine and discusses fundamental questions in the field, using the well-studied drug as an example. Please check it out! Aurora, Jonathan Steed, Durham Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Amazing effort led by Dr Amy Hall on a compound I love. 😊

So happy to secure 1.4M£ for the project ChloroCat - Unlocking metal-chloride bonds for data-driven stereoselective catalysis! A big shoutout to my project partner Dr Jolene Reid at UBC, and to amazing colleagues at DurhamChemistry and beyond for help during the application!

The development of a NHC-stabilized heavier nitrile featuring phosphino-silylene is reported in Nature Chemistry. CSD Entry HOXREV shows a bent R–Si–P geometry that fundamentally differs from the classical nitriles. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/4dc2jsk #FeaturedStructureFriday

Really happy to see this out in Nature Reviews Chemistry with Kane Bastick & Allan Watson . If you’re interested in the reactivity of borylated alkanes, have a read: nature.com/articles/s4157…. Watson Group

Come and join my group The Crick - we have a PhD tinyurl.com/rhtfbdx4 in metal-peptidic cages and high affinity binders, and will advertise a 3 year PDRA in December for a Chemical Biologist with synthetic and cell work experience. Email if interested, retweets appreciated!

We are inviting applications for the position of a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, Deadline Jan 22, 2025. RT appreciated. Chemjobber. See here for more details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW116/lec…

A really fun project from Dave Leigh, delivered on the back of Peng-Lai Wang ’s fantastic efforts, ably assisted by Martin Power and our collaborators in Strasbourg, Alessandro and Giuseppone Chemistry Research Group, who taught us lots of polymer and materials chemistry. Thanks all!