In collaboration with research teams at Diamond (Siligardi) and Durham (Pal), we measure strong circular dichroism and circularly polarised luminescence in single crystals of a perylene diimide macrocycle. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, e20567

Denis, Oussama and Tim visited B23 at Diamond Light Source to perform some circular dichroism measurements on the group’s latest samples. Thank you to our collaborators Giuliano Siligardi and Tibi Gianga for hosting us!

In which we investigate…
1. The impact of different sources of chirality on chiroptical properties: Commun. Chem. 2026 doi.org/10.1038/s42004-026-01904-z
2. Conformation-dependent excimer population by ultrafast spectroscopy: Chem. Sci. 2026 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC09512C
…with our collaborators at Durham and UEA.

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.