Manuel Petroselli 🇪🇺 🇮🇹

#DISITSeminarSeries

Thank you Prof. #MichaelChan from City University of Hong Kong for visiting @uniupo.bsky.social and delivering a seminar on #Dynamic #Helical #Metallopolymers and their potential applications.

Know more about the seminar 👇🏻
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I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the #RSCResearchFunds grant at @uniupo.bsky.social for the project #Supramolecular Control of #Radical #Reactivity: From #Inibition to #Catalysis (SURICA).
Thanks to @rsc.org for believing and supporting this cutting-edge project.

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the #RSCResearchFunds grant at @uniupo.bsky.social for the project #Supramolecular Control of #Radical #Reactivity: From #Inibition to #Catalysis (SURICA).
Thanks to @rsc.org for believing and supporting this cutting-edge project.

Congrats Jake! All the best for your future!

The 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR2025) is approaching !

Final scientific program is now available at www.esor2025.com

Last minute registrations can still be accepted until 31 August (including poster presentation) !

#ChemSky

🥳So excited to see our work highlighted #OnTheCover of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (Outside Back Cover)!!
Many thanks to Jo Richers Studio for designing this beautiful piece of art!🤩

👀Check out the full story here:
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#SupramolecularChem
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2025 MASC Prize Calls MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group 2025 MASC Prize Calls 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in memory of John Fossey: The RSC MASC Group P…

The 2025 MASC Group Awards are all open for nominations, with the following deadlines:

🏆 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 Bob Hay Award Lectureship. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 MASC Group PhD Thesis Award. 📆 7th Nov

🏆 MASC/WISC EDIA Award. 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

vMASC Call to volunteer for the vMASC committee vMASC: Expression of interest to volunteer for the vMASC committee The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry We are inviting members of the vMASC community to…

📣 Call for Volunteers - vMASC 📣

Submit your expression of interest to join the vMASC organising committee!

Deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025

Eligibility: full-time researcher (including early career) + member of RSC MASC Interest Group

Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

An information ratchet improves selectivity in molecular recognition under non-equilibrium conditions Nature Nanotechnology - An abiotic information ratchet mechanism increases selectivity for the correct DNA duplex from 2:1 at equilibrium to 6:1 under energy-dissipating conditions.

Great to see this paper published today !! Phenomenal work by @benjaminoacid.bsky.social in collaboration with Erica Del Grosso and Francesco Ricci at Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Many thanks to @epenocchio.bsky.social for contributing. 1/n

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Tailoring Tubular Supramolecular Polymers with Polar Lumens to Host Hydrophilic Dye Molecules A unique class of tubular polymer structures that are soluble in apolar organic solvents but are endowed with polar pores has been created through the rational design of the monomer units, which self...

Thrilled to share our recently published work!
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Self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities Inspired by the extraordinary attributes displayed by nanotubes in Nature, the creation of self-assembled nano-sized hollow tubes is an area of significant and growing interest given its potential app...

Take a look to our last review in @chemsocrev.rsc.org, where we discuss the different strategies to obtain self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities. Congrats to Marina, Jacobo, Paula, Fátima and @davidgrlab.bsky.social
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A Column Chromatography-Free Protocol for the Synthesis of Water-Soluble Cavitands An efficient synthetic protocol for the synthesis of a library of unprecedented resorcin[4]arene-based water-soluble molecular containers is reported here. Key to this approach is the tetra-iodo deriv...

My recent work is finally out and #openaccess on JOC! @chemistryeurope.bsky.social

We developed a versatile, column chromatography-free methodology to produce a library of organic and water-soluble molecular containers via the Sonogashira coupling reaction. #OrgChem

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Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

This one is special: first article in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit, a wild idea ultimately leading to an excellent metal 🪙scavenger and organic battery 🔋material. With: K. Leopold #sulfur #chemsky
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Come to Copenhagen for www.esoc2025.com - the conference starts Sunday June 29th...that is in a week! There is still time to sign up (lnkd.in/dh8FBJY7)! The first afternoon Morten Meldal and Eric Jacobsen (lnkd.in/djGy2Syw ) will speak!

Social media and connecting with our community

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky

PhD Position in glycan synthesis and analysis

Join us for a #PhD in #glycotimes!

You'll be part of a collaboration between my group and Yu Ogawa's group at the @mpici.bsky.social to design carbohydrates that fold and assemble on demand.

#chemistryjobs #researchjobs

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🐤 🐥 Early Bird deadline approaching : 18 June 2025

ESOR2025 – 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity

9-12 September 2025, Padova, Italy 🇮🇹🇪🇺

www.esor2025.com

Meet our Invited Speakers

Unusual dynamic stimuli-responsive metallamacrocyclic configurational switches

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On what would have been Fraser Stoddart's 83rd birthday, many of us remember the incredible legacy he has given us.

A conformationally adaptive cage with multiple guest recognition modes

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Cycloaddition of epoxides and atmospheric CO2 in aqueous catalyzed by an upper-rim functionalized calix[4]arene organocatalyst

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

Great start to the week with our latest carpyridine findings out in @jacs.acspublications.org! Water and carpys now self-assemble together, forming linear stacks as revealed by micro-ED. Check it out: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
@michelrickhaus.bsky.social @avj-chem.bsky.social @rickhauslab.bsky.social

Very nice work! Congratulations @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and co-authors!

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really?
In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures
👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky
@rickhauslab.bsky.social

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out...

...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

Biomimetic Metal–Organic Nanotubular Host for Straight-Chain Fatty Acids Recognition Subtle structural variations among fatty acids significantly influence their biological roles and health effects. However, molecular recognition of their long, flexible, and chemically inert hydrocarbon chains remains a challenge. Inspired by natural fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs), we designed and synthesized nanotubular metallo-cavitands, termed metal–organic pillars, through the coordination-driven assembly of pillararene-derived ligands with Ag(I) salts. These biomimetic hosts feature continuous interior channels exceeding 2.6 nm, selectively binding long-chain fatty acids through precise size and shape complementarity. Saturated and trans fatty acids, with linear conformations, are effectively encapsulated and stabilized by C–H···π and van der Waals interactions. In contrast, coiled cis-polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), cannot be accommodated due to structural incompatibility. This work highlights the ability of artificial receptors to emulate the recognition capabilities of natural proteins, enabling the targeting of “bad” fatty acids associated with adverse health effects.

Biomimetic Metal–Organic Nanotubular Host for Straight-Chain Fatty Acids Recognition | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Interesting approach and nice work! Congratulations to all the authors!