About us
We are a research group specialising in supramolecular chemistry based in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra. Thanks for visiting – please have a look around and email Nick if you have any questions.

Recent news
Welcome to Hamish, who starts Honours in the group!

Two papers in a week: Honours student Meabh’s work on dimethylamidinium networks is published in Cryst. Growth Des., and work that Nick contributed (a little) to during his mini-sabbatical in Sheffield that reports the first halogen-bonded nanosheets is published in Adv. Sci.

Michael McGuirk (Colorado School of Mines) and Nick wrote a tutorial review on supramolecular framework as part of an invited special issue of Chem. Soc. Rev.

Rosie publishes a paper in Angew. Chem. jointly with the Colebatch group showing that we can metalate our 6+ cages to give M3cage metallocages with coordinatively unsaturated metal ions. When we have an ethyl solubilising group we get the expected three-fold symmetric cages, but methoxy or propoxy solubilising groups give strange low symmetry metallocages (low symmetry in the solid state and in solution, even at high temps).