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Dr Becky Greenaway

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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401CMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

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@article{Greenaway:2018:10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9,
author = {Greenaway, R and Santolini, V and Bennison, MJ and Alston, BM and Pugh, CJ and Little, MA and Miklitz, M and Eden-Rumps, EGB and Clowes, R and Shakil, A and Cuthbertson, HJ and Armstrong, H and Briggs, ME and Jelfs, KE and Cooper, A},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9},
journal = {Nature Communications},
pages = {1--11},
title = {High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9},
volume = {9},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Supramolecular synthesis is a powerful strategy for assembling complex molecules, but to do this by targeted design is challenging. This is because multicomponent assembly reactions have the potential to form a wide variety of products. High-throughput screening can explore a broad synthetic space, but this is inefficient and inelegant when applied blindly. Here we fuse computation with robotic synthesis to create a hybrid discovery workflow for discovering new organic cage molecules, and by extension, other supramolecular systems. A total of 78 precursor combinations were investigated by computation and experiment, leading to 33 cages that were formed cleanly in one-pot syntheses. Comparison of calculations with experimental outcomes across this broad library shows that computation has the power to focus experiments, for example by identifying linkers that are less likely to be reliable for cage formation. Screening also led to the unplanned discovery of a new cage topology—doubly bridged, triply interlocked cage catenanes.
AU  - Greenaway,R
AU  - Santolini,V
AU  - Bennison,MJ
AU  - Alston,BM
AU  - Pugh,CJ
AU  - Little,MA
AU  - Miklitz,M
AU  - Eden-Rumps,EGB
AU  - Clowes,R
AU  - Shakil,A
AU  - Cuthbertson,HJ
AU  - Armstrong,H
AU  - Briggs,ME
AU  - Jelfs,KE
AU  - Cooper,A
DO  - 10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9
EP  - 11
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 2041-1723
SP  - 1
TI  - High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000439297100008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05271-9
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/61694
VL  - 9
ER  -
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