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Efficient Removal of Short-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Substances by Cavity-Directed Aggregation in a Molecular Cage Host
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2026
The removal of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water is critical to protect human health and the environment. However, removing …
Caroline v. I. Andersson
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Sumali G. T. Mudiyanselage
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Martin Peeks
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Asja A. Kroeger
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Jemma I. Virtue
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Maximilian Mann
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Justin M. Chalker
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Michelle L. Coote
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Martin R. Johnston
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Witold M. Bloch
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Dual Proton/Anion Binding Through Reciprocal Allostery in Platinum(II) Lantern-Shaped Cages
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2025
Reciprocal allosteric regulation, where binding events influence each other simultaneously, is a key target for supramolecular chemists …
Zack T. Avery
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Elizabeth C. Elphick
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Michael G. Gardiner
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Rosemary J. Goodwin
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Junming Ho
,
Martin Peeks
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Dan Preston
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Photoexcited and ground-state diradical(oid) character in a triquino[3]radialene
Chem. Sci.
2025
The unusual [3]radialene motif at the centre of triquino[3]radialene permits exceptional electronic conjugation between the three …
Bethany Hillier
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Damon M. De Clercq
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Stephen Bortolussi
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Simona S. Capomolla
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Michael P. Nielsen
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Katarzyna Młodzikowska-Pieńko
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Renana Gershoni-Poranne
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Timothy W. Schmidt
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Martin Peeks
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Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Authentic Learning Activities to Introduce Chemistry Students to Systems Thinking through Green Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Education
2025
Despite chemistry’s recognized importance to multiscale industrial and environmental processes, first-year undergraduate chemistry is …
Alan Z. Chen
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Martin Peeks
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Sara H. Kyne
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Spectroscopic Manifestations of (Anti)Aromaticity in Oxidized and Reduced Porphyrin and Norcorrole
Chemistry – A European Journal
2024
Abstract Aromaticity and antiaromaticity are foundational principes in organic chemistry, regularly invoked to explain stability, …
Stephen Bortolussi
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Carmen Zhou
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Nick Lynch
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Martin Peeks
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Probing the Antiaromaticity and Coordination Chemistry of Bowl-Shaped Zinc(II) Norcorrole
Inorganic Chemistry
2024
Zinc norcorrole was prepared as its pyridine complex (ZnNc·pyridine) by metalation of freebase norcorrole. The ZnNc·pyridine complex is …
David Bradley
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Ruoming Tian
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Mohan M. Bhadbhade
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Lauren K. Macreadie
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Chowdhury Hasan Sarowar
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Martin Peeks
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Electronic delocalization in charged macrocycles is associated with global aromaticity
Chemical Communications
2023
When oxidized, cycloparaphenylenes and porphyrin nanorings can exhibit macrocyclic ring currents which have been used to assign these …
David Bradley
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Bethany Hillier
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Martin Peeks
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Disentangling global and local ring currents
Chemical Science
2023
Magnetic field-induced ring currents in aromatic and antiaromatic molecules cause characteristic shielding and deshielding effects in …
David Bradley
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Michael Jirásek
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Harry L. Anderson
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Martin Peeks
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A straightforward method to quantify the electron-delocalizing ability of π-conjugated molecules
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2022
Electronic delocalization is essential to the properties of π-conjugated molecules. We introduce the inter-fragment delocalization …
David Bradley
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Callum Branley
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Martin Peeks
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Correspondence on "How Aromatic Are Molecular Nanorings? The Case of a Six-Porphyrin Nanoring"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2022
Jie-Ren Deng
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David Bradley
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Michael Jirasek
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Harry L. Anderson
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Martin Peeks
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