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.


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Cronin Group Blasts Experiment into Space

The Cronin group have successfully placed a digital chemistry experiment into orbit aboard a DIDO 2 nano-satellite. The experiment extends the groups ground-breaking work in the digitisation of chemistry, exploring the formation of a drug in a microfluidic device. It is hoped that this experiment could pave the way for the development of drug printing devices for space exploration, allowing for the production of drugs on demand from a minimal set of chemicals.

The satellite was launched in partnership with SpacePharma, a company specialising in microgravity experimentation, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation PSLV-C37. The rocket launched successfully in the early hours of 15th February, and set the record for the most satellites launched on a single mission (104 satellites, the previous record being 37).

University of Glasgow Press Release

BBC news article on the launch

Our partners at SpacePharma

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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

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

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

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

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506. Experimentally measured assemblyindices are required to determine the threshold for life

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505. Algorithm-driven robotic discovery of polyoxometalate-scaffolding metal–organic frameworks

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504. Reaction: Programmable chemputable click chemistry

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503. Rethinking pharma and biotech outsourcing: A call for data security and supply chain resilience

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502. Delocalized, asynchronous, closed-loop discovery of organic laser emitters

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501. Investigating and Quantifying Molecular Complexity Using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy

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500. Electron density-based GPT for optimization and suggestion of host–guest binders


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