Chemistry Prof, cyclist, father of great boys and fan of History, Crystals & Books. Editor-in-Chief of @CGD_ACS. Author #SupramolChem3rdEd. Opinions my own.

Durham, UK
Joined August 2013
That’s it. I have my copy of #SupramolChem3rdEd. It looks gorgeous. Nice job @Wiley_Chemistry. My bookshelf shows the progression in size of the field across the three Eds. Preorders should be arriving on your doormats soon.
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Delighted to announce the publication of a special issue on Multicomponent Pharmaceutical Solids in Crystal Growth & Design honouring Prof Ashwini Nangia pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/si/…
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The Crystal Growth & Design 25th Anniversary special issue has just been published. Check out my editorial and a great piece from the founding editor Robin Rogers pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/si/… @CGD_ACS
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Crystallizing the uncrystallizable—PROTACs are new drug molecules in the beyond Rule of Five (bRo5) chemical space. They suffer from extremely poor aqueous solubility and low crystallizability due to their unique structure. This complexity makes it particularly challenging to analyze PROTACs from a solid-state preformulation perspective. Now, Screen, Steed @jonathan_steed , et al. report in @J_A_C_S a comprehensive crystallization protocol used to grow single crystals of a cereblon-recruiting PROTAC called “AZ1.” Their work resulted in the determination of two structures: an anhydrous form and a nonstoichiometric p-xylene solvate, achieved through 3D electron diffraction and synchrotron X-ray crystallography. This study paves the way for solid form screening and a deeper understanding of pharmaceutical systems that operate in the challenging bRo5 space. Full article: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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The system unlocks a set of strategies to selectively prepare materials that can exist in more than one crystalline form, known as polymorphs. chemistryworld.com/news/grap…
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Lovely article on our work on graphene based gels for pharmaceutical crystallisation. It was great fun to talk to the author Tiffany Rogers. @ChemistryWorld
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I will be giving a little opening address at tomorrow's Bimonthly Organic Solid-State Symposium: BOSS meets Crystal Growth & Design. Celebrating Mike Ward's career. The speaker list is amazing Omar Farha, Doris Braun and Chris Bardeen. Don't miss it! bosssymposium.org/april2025
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Join us at the Durham Crystallography School @durham_uni for an intensive program tailored for early-career scientists with some X-ray structure analysis experience. 📆Monday 31st March - 20:00 (BST) 🔗ccdc-info.com/41UsvEp #Crystallography #Research #Data
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Another great opportunity to work with the team here at Lincoln. jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI582/techni…
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#MyACSCover for Investigation of Permeability Trend in Primary Alkyl Ammonium Salts of Diclofenac Thanks to @ACSPublications @jonathan_steed pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… @profalokkumar @_poonamtandon @Alok_Dhawan
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Just published. Lovely work by Qi Zhang who had a very productive year with me in Durham! Selective Crystallization of Pyrazinamide Polymorphs in Supramolecular Gels: Synergistic Selectivity by Mimetic Gelator and Solvent doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2025.…
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Great article in Communications Chemistry on being a Woman in Chemistry from my very successful colleague @AJCruzCabeza rdcu.be/d9oKt
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Check out the @CGD_ACS special issue showcasing our amazing Emerging Investigators and read about their experiences in science and life in my editorial just published pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/vi/… pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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Jonathan Steed retweeted
Introverts, ever feel completely drained after being around people? You’re not crazy. You’re not antisocial. Your brain just works differently. Here’s why socializing exhausts you and how to protect your energy:
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The isolation of a planar pi-aromatic Bi5- ring in a cobalt-based inverse-sandwich-type complex has been reported in @NatureChemistry. CSD entry VUPBOB contains the heaviest analogue of the Cp anion synthesized. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/4jxEzDt #FeaturedStructureFriday
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