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Steve Goldup

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Professor of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. All (poorly thought out) views my own.

Birmingham, England
Joined July 2010
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RT @ChemLangton: We have an opening for a PDRA in my group working in membrane supramolecular chemistry as part of an ERC funded project. A….
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Proud (ex) supervisor moment - first independent paper from the Saady group.😀 Very much not the last - @e_saady is an awesome scientist and a force to be reckoned with. One to watch!.
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Final version published today in @JOC_OL .
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RT @PeterrGallagher: Auf Wiedersehen, Lindau! 🇩🇪 .What an unforgettable week at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. It has been truly tran….
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RT @UoBChemistry: Congratulations to 2nd year PhD student Lauren Senkiw-Smith from the @PikramenouGroup who won a poster prize at the RSC P….
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Steve Goldup
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This was all made possible by the hard work of *lots* of outstanding & creative scientists, support from the @royalsociety, @EPSRC, @LeverhulmeTrust and @ERC_Research, a bit of luck, and my family putting up with me babbling about symmetry at inopportune moments - thank you all!
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This led us to declare “the end of the beginning” of mechanical stereochemistry in 2024 ( - we can now make them efficiently, describe them accurately and are starting see what they are useful for! In some ways the Corday-Morgan marks the end of an era🥹.
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ConspectusStereochemistry has played a key role in the development of synthetic chemistry for the simple reason that the function and properties of most molecules, from medicine to materials science,...
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We have now made rotaxanes & catenanes stereoselectively (, found new stereochemistry ( & redefined mechanical stereochemistry theory (. We even made a mechanically chiral catalyst (😀
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I say 10 years because Rob Bordoli’s synthesis of chiral rotaxanes appeared in 2014 (, although seeds were planted in 2011 by Hicham Lahlali when he saw an unexpectedly complicated 1H NMR spectrum ( - always watch for weird data 😜.
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By shrinking the macrocycle in the CuAAC active template reaction not only is it demonstrated to be possible to use smaller macrocycles, but, surprisingly, that smaller macrocycles lead to higher...
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Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul, @unisouthampton, @unibirmingham). Short🧵
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RT @UoBChemistry: Four scientists from the School have won prizes from @RoySocChem – Prof @sgoldup the Corday-Morgan Prize, Prof O'Reilly @….
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The Birmingham scientists are among more than 40 winners recognised this year for their outstanding contributions to advancing the chemical sciences.
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RT @ChemicalScience: We are delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Chang (Princeton) has won the 2025 Chemical Science Lectureshi….
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Steve Goldup
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Awesome #ismsc2025 lecture from my @UoBChemistry colleague @LewisChemistry on controlling the formation of low symmetry cages by understanding subtle interactions. Beautiful science presented using beautiful slides (as ever)!
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RT @floodgroup_iub: Congrats to the Sessler Award winners, Qing He and @LiangZhang1023 at the #ismsc2025 raising the standard — thanks @JL….
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Steve Goldup
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Great to speak @ISMSC2025 but didn't quite leave enough time for questions (bad Steve🤨). If you have a question, find me at the dinner or message me here and I'll get back to you! If Qs are cool (and the ans is short), I'll post it in reply here! AMA #ismsc2025
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RT @leonard_prins: 📢📢 ESOR2025 – 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity 🧪⌬ . 9-12 September 2025 - Padova - Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹 https://t.c….
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Just noticed the typo 😳 #ISMSC2025 not 2027. Not wishing my life away. Good reasons why I have that hashtag in my head!.
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Hello Hong Kong! Goodbye Hong Kong! Transferring through on my way to Japan. Visiting friends and collaborators in Tokyo and Nagasaki before heading to #ISMSC2027. Looking forward to 2 weeks of excellent science! 😁
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RT @CJSerpell: We're looking for a postdoc to join the group UCL @School_Pharmacy to use sequence to tie polymers in knots. Come and combin….
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Steve Goldup
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RT @FuchterMatt: Who wants to come and work with our group @OxfordChemistry on photoswitches and photopharmacology 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻🙋‍♂️. Apply for ou….
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And last, but very not least, this project will harness our world-leading expertise in the stereochemistry of interlocked molecules to create new catalysts and sensors:
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PhD Project - Mechanically interlocked chiral molecules for sensing and catalysis at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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