We are a Chemistry research group based at the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney. We combine synthesis, computational chemistry, programming, and spectroscopy to understand the properties of pi-conjugated organic molecules.
Organic molecules are those which are mostly made up of carbon. By using skilled chemical synthesis to exactly engineer the structure of molecules,we can access a wide range of properties: whether as medicines, dyes, molecular wires, or more. Our group’s research is based on the latter two categories. We design molecules using computational chemistry, make them using organic synthesis, and then study them with advanced spectroscopies.
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Nature is an expert at self-assembly. Your body, as a whole, is a complex compartmentalised system of molecules, reactions, and replicators, all underpinned by self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry.
All matter exhibits a Faraday effect: the polarisation of light as it passes through a material changes proportional to the strength of an external magnetic field.
Aromatic molecules are cyclic and pi-conjugated, and exhibit some interesting effects. Most well-known nowadays is the behaviour of aromatic molecules in a magnetic field: in an NMR spectrometer, we see that the chemical shifts of protons inside and outside the ring appear (de)shielded.