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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

We are interested in molecular recognition, aiming to uncover and exploit the rules governing non-covalent interactions. Hydrophobic, π–π, donor–acceptor, metal– ligand and hydrogen bonding interactions are used to create new supramolecular systems that expand our understanding of molecular behaviour and may have useful recognition, catalytic or photophysical properties. In particular in the past few years we have developed the concept of dynamic combinatorial chemistry as a new approach for discovering entirely unexpected structures and assemblies. Over the years our building blocks have included peptides, metalloporphyrins, steroids and simple aromatics, and our products have included macrocycles, rotaxanes, catenanes, molecular knots and supramolecular nanotubes. Very recently, while investigating dynamic chemistry in the solid state using ball mill grinding, we have discovered solvent and surface effects on polymorph stability in nanocrystals

Please note that I am not taking any new students or postdocs into my research group.

 

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Evolution of dynamic combinatorial chemistry, Accounts Chem. Res., (2012), 45, 2211.

Discovery of an organic trefoil knot, Science, (2012), 338, 783.

Templated dynamic synthesis of a [3]Catenane, Angew. Chemie Intl. Edn., (2012), 51, 1443.

Thermodynamics of supramolecular naphthalenediimide nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2012), 134, 566.

Discovery of linear receptors for multiple dihydrogen phosphate ions using dynamic combinatorial chemistry, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2011), 133, 3804.

Formation pathways of Donor-Acceptor catenanes in aqueous dynamic combinatorial libraries, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2011), 133, 3198.

Solid-state dynamic combinatorial chemistry, Chem. Sci., (2011), 2, 696.

An unexpected receptor for C70, Angew. Chemie Intl. Edn., (2008), 47, 2689.

Publications

Substituent effects on aromatic interactions in water
G Tobajas-Curiel, Q Sun, JKM Sanders, P Ballester, CA Hunter
– Chemical Science
(2023)
Quantitative reversible one pot interconversion of three crystalline polymorphs by ball mill grinding
AM Belenguer, GI Lampronti, AAL Michalchuk, F Emmerling, JKM Sanders
– CrystEngComm
(2022)
24,
4256
Using Solid Catalysts in Disulfide-Based Dynamic Combinatorial Solution- and Mechanochemistry.
AM Belenguer, AAL Michalchuk, GI Lampronti, JKM Sanders
– ChemSusChem
(2021)
15,
e202102416
What has Royal Society Open Science achieved in its first few years?
JKM Sanders
– Royal Society Open Science
(2021)
8,
211838
Changing the game of time resolved X-ray diffraction on the mechanochemistry playground by downsizing.
GI Lampronti, AAL Michalchuk, PP Mazzeo, AM Belenguer, JKM Sanders, A Bacchi, F Emmerling
– Nature Communications
(2021)
12,
6134
Implications of Thermodynamic Control: Dynamic Equilibrium Under Ball Mill Grinding Conditions
AM Belenguer, GI Lampronti, JKM Sanders
– Israel Journal of Chemistry
(2021)
61,
764
Reviewers in 2020
JKM Sanders
– Royal Society Open Science
(2021)
8,
210300
Launching science, society and policy
A Smith, JKM Sanders
– Royal Society Open Science
(2021)
8,
210438
Reviewers in 2019
JK Sanders
– Royal Society Open Science
(2020)
7,
200403
Editorial 2020: Changing publishing and academic culture
JKM Sanders
– Royal Society Open Science
(2020)
7,
192197
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Telephone number

01223 336411

Email address

jkms@cam.ac.uk