A chiral and configurationally stable bis-perylene diimide macrocycle exhibits switchable circular dichroism and multiphoton circularly polarized luminescence.
Chem. Eur. J., 2025 doi.org/10.1002/chem.202501734
New work with our fantastic collaborators in Sheffield, UCL and Durham.

Tom, Mya, Denis and Jaz all got the opportunity to present recent work at the Early Career Researcher Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting. Many fruitful discussions were had with friends and colleagues.

Tom and Atul had the opportunity to present the group’s recent work at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry in Kyoto, Japan. A huge thank you to the organising committee for putting on an amazing conference.

Congratulations to Denis for winning a poster prize at the RSC Organic Chemistry Midlands Meeting at the University of Nottingham.

1. The study of a homochiral perylene diimide dimer for sensing chiral anions.
Chem. Eur. J., 2025, e202501270
Work by Denis and the group’s previous MSci and MRes students Lucy and Jamie.

2. We team up with the Jupp & Chen groups at Birmingham to quantify the association between a Lewis acid and a Lewis base in a frustrated Lewis pair.
Nat. Comms., 2025, 16, 3666
Congratulations to Alastair, Tao and Laura for kickstarting this new collaborative project!

A helical macrocycle that exhibits three-way switching of its chiroptical properties (+/−/off) in solution.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202501122
New work from Denis and in collaboration with Martijn Zwijnenburg and Rob Pal.