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
Bailee and Rosie have a paper published in JACS. We make cages containing both hydrogen and halogen bond donors and show that these can bind iodide anion as strongly as biological iodide binders in water through halogen bonding. We also show that we can get relatively well-defined heteroanion complexes with iodide in the halogen bonding pocket and chlorides in hydrogen bonding pockets.

Former undergraduate researcher, then Honours student, then PhD student, then postdoc Rosemary Goodwin starts her independent academic career at UNSW-Canberra. Congrats Rosie!

It’s the end of an era as postdocs Jordan and Rosie finish up in the group. Jordan has been a postdoc in the group since 2021, while Rosie first worked in the group in 2016 for an undergraduate research project. It’s not all sad news though, as Molly starts an undergraduate research project, and Nick joins for a PhD.

Logan and team publish a paper in Org. Lett. showing you can reduce hexakis(pyridinium-hydrazone) cages to give neutral hexakis(tetrahydropyridine) cages.

Welcome to Hamish, who starts Honours in the group!