📢Very excited to announce that our team will be moving to @StAndrewsChem 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 later this month. I am so very grateful to @wuerthnergroup 🇩🇪for support over the last 3-years and stoked for our teams future! Check out an updated website at https://t.co/EJwFtX9nvg 🚨🔦💡

Published in #AngewandteChemieNovit: A kinetically controlled catenane synthesis that does not require persistent strong binding interactions nor the addition of templates by @ProfDaveLeigh & co-workers (@OfficialUoM).   Read it here: https://t.co/m6dgxcaVcy

#AngewandteChemieNovit #OnTheCover Metal-Free Active Template Synthesis of Catenanes (David A. Leigh and co-workers) https://t.co/DugwhBrlSw @ProfDaveLeigh @OfficialUoM 🔓 https://t.co/5FSOLDCrSg

#AngewandteChemieNovit David A. Leigh (@ProfDaveLeigh) and co-workers @OfficialUoM report a mechanistically fascinating process for metal-free active template synthesis of [2]catenanes #openaccess. Have a look at the manuscript at: 🔓

📢 Back-to-back paper from the Leigh Group — now in @J_A_C_S! We directly measure the direction of rotation in a catalysis-driven motor using transient intermediates! https://t.co/7q5lepBmZU Huge thanks to @HuakuiLiu @benjamino_acid @StefanBorsley @ProfDaveLeigh

🚨 New paper in Angewandte Chemie Novit! 🚨 Metal-free active template synthesis of catenanes — no strong binding or added templates needed!🧪 Huge thanks to Jiankang, Patrick, @enzoolivieri4, and Prof. @ProfDaveLeigh for the supervision! 👉

Models are typically used in catalysis-driven motors. In this work, it is not required @J_A_C_S . Huge thanks especially to @ProfDaveLeigh and all our outstanding cooperators @AxelTroncossi @benjamino_acid @StefanBorsley Truly a team effort!

Thanks to the organisers for an excellent conference at #ISMSC2025. Thoroughly enjoyed some excellent science, meeting lots of new people and catching up with old friends! Thanks also for the opportunity for a talk to share some of the work we are up to in https://t.co/QNkMteIQyp

Fully funded PhD opportunity in the design, synthesis and characterisation of artificial molecular machines - 2 years at the University of Manchester; 1-2 years at Peking University. Open only to non-Chinese nationals. If interested, please email me asap.

PhD positions (SNSF) available at the University of Basel (Switzerland🇨🇭)! Join a new research group working on innovative catalytic pathways to produce endergonic/endothermic molecules🔥. For more details: https://t.co/4JALiJcMMY & enzo.olivieri.basel@proton.me

A Catalysis-Driven Dual Molecular Motor | Journal of the American Chemical Society @OfficialUoM

An incredible honor to receive award! Thank you so much to the committee, friends, collaborators and @SupraMolChem for recognizing my work. Thrilled to share this achievement with my friend @QingHe_HNU. Look forward to meeting you all in @ISMSC2025

Check out how we made a minuscule motor rotate 24 times in one direction on its own! Huge thanks to all involved, especially @ProfDaveLeigh for making this work possible @ACSPublications @HuakuiLiu @AxelTroncossi @StefanBorsley @benjamino_acid @AlexBetts95

A really fun project from @ProfDaveLeigh, delivered on the back of @PengLaiWang_96 ’s fantastic efforts, ably assisted by @MartinJ_Power and our collaborators in Strasbourg, Alessandro and @GiusepponeLab, who taught us lots of polymer and materials chemistry. Thanks all!

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Very sad news of the passing of @sirfrasersays, a giant of chemistry for four decades. He pioneered (with J-P Sauvage) the chemistry of the mechanical bond (catenanes & rotaxanes) & recognised that their well defined motions could be useful for molecular machinery... 1/3

Budding molecular magicians are invited to apply for a 4-year PhD studentship on catalysis-driven molecular machinery (e.g. https://t.co/qWudTDBfUo; https://t.co/Ndx2Xj9UBO; etc) available in my group, autumn 2025 start: https://t.co/azgS1NNh9z. Position open until filled😃

Out in @NatureChemistry with @GuillaumeDeBo grp. Overhand knot substantially increases scission of polymer under tension (≥2.6× faster); deformation by knot tightening activates otherwise unreactive bonds. Congrats @MinZhangw @FSchaufelberger Lucian &Rob!

Five years in the making with @benjamino_acid and @ProfDaveLeigh! Out now in @angew_chem, find out how to give chemistry direction with our comprehensive review on Molecular Ratchets: https://t.co/3XP62qCi3r A brief description in the tread below.

Out now as an Accepted Article in @angew_chem, @StefanBorsley & @benjamino_acid review & discuss how chemistry can be driven inexorably away from equilibrium, rather than relax towards it😃 https://t.co/qWudTDBfUo