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.
How did life start on Earth? Does alien life exist elsewhere in the Universe? And can we make life in the laboratory that is both chemically and causally separate to the last universal common ancestor on Earth?
In this zoominar I will discuss how my team are trying to make Alien detection systems and create life in the laboratory from scratch.
Zoom ID: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/578624695 7th April 2020 at 15:30‐17:00 GMT
Email:Lee.Cronin@glasgow.ac.uk; www.croninlab.com 7th April 2020 at 15:30‐17:00 GMT
Background reading:
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
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