The Cronin Group

Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems, and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks.

Assembly Theory Features in Scientific American

Assembly theory - a theory being developed by the Cronin group along with international collaborators - has been featured in the February 2023 edition of Scientific American. The article, “Life as We Don’t Know It”, explores how living systems on other worlds could work in very different ways from life on Earth. Assembly theory has been developed to distinguish living from non-living systems based on their complexity, and is agnostic to the specific molecules and structures involved, and so could be used to identify life in completely unfamiliar contexts.

The article can be viewed on the Scientific American website

Prof. Leroy (Lee) Cronin

Prof Leroy (Lee) Cronin
Regius Chair of Chemistry
Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
Level 5, Digital Chemistry
University of Glasgow
11 Chapel Lane
Glasgow G11 6EW
Tel: +44 141 330 6650
Email: lee.cronin@glasgow.ac.uk

Latest Publications

516. Universal peptide synthesis via solid-phase methods fused with chemputation

515. Regulating the Assembly of γ-Cyclodextrin Host and Polyoxometalate-Based Guests toward Light-Responsive Hybrid Rotaxanes

514. Natural-Language-Interfaced Robotic Synthesis for AI-Copilot-Assisted Exploration of Inorganic Materials

513. Robotic exploration of amino-acid functionalised molybdenum blue polyoxometalate nanoclusters

512. A programmable modular robot for the synthesis of molecular machines

511. Compression of Molybdenum Blue Polyoxometalate Cluster Rings

510. High-Nuclearity Polyoxometalate-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidative Cleavage of C−C Bond

509. Breaking the Boundary of Gigantic Molybdenum Blue Clusters: From Half-Closed {Mo₈₅} to {Mo₁₇₂} Dimer

508. Operational considerations for approximating molecular assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry

507. Reaction blueprints and logical control flow for parallelized chiral synthesis in the Chemputer

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The Cronin Group

Assembly Theory Features in Scientific American

Prof. Leroy (Lee) Cronin

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