Jerald Hertzog

With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate and cherished member of @NorthwesternU. His groundbreaking contributions transformed the field of #chemistry and inspired countless scientists worldwide. ➡️ bit.ly/stoddart-in-me…

Just in time for Halloween💀☠️ skeletal editing of rotaxanes! @MaximeG43877226, Jess & Dan use @LevinChem’s N-deletion reagent to remove template site of dibenzylammonium rotaxanes enabling synthesis of otherwise inaccessible structures.Out now in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks (Stuart J. Rowan and co-workers) @UChicagoPME @UChiChemistry @JongwonOh_ @mikeyliu97 @HojinKim_ @jerryhertzog @StuartJRowan #AngewandteVIP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Check out our recent work on doubly threaded slide-ring networks just out in @angew_chem

Happy #FluorescentFriday purifying more pyrene derivatives today!

Extremely excited to share one of my final PhD projects on @ChemRxiv! We take dynamic zirconocene chemistry to the limit, ultimately making a nanocarbon so large and entangled we ended up defining a new class of molecular topology to best describe it! shorturl.at/kqsv3 1/8

Prof. @StuartJRowan and his team at @UChicagoPME have developed a material that can change from a rubber band-like material to a ball of silly putty to a flexible sheet of plastic or a stiff, molded device. pme.uchicago.edu/news/pluripote…

Assembly and Utility of a Drawstring-Mimetic Supramolecular Complex (Huan Cong and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Explore one of our #MostRead papers this year ⚡The Grignard Reaction – Unraveling a Chemical Puzzle by Raphael Mathias Peltzer, Jürgen Gauss, Odile Eisenstein & Michele Cascella 🔓 #OpenAccess 📖 Read the full article here: go.acs.org/7oS

Next, the mechanical bond. Making complicated organic molecules is hard enough without trying to thread them through each other. Featuring @sirfrasersays @sgoldup Dave Leigh and more chemistryworld.com/features/the-m…

Together with @HLAGroupOx we made an antiaromatic carbon allotrope. It is a molecule called cyclo[16]carbon. And it even is doubly-antiaromatic. What that means and how that was done, you can read in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Beyond thrilled to share my first author paper in @J_A_C_S! Learn more about the toughening mechanism of rotaxane cross-linked polymers "Sacrificial Mechanical Bond"!! Thanks to my collaborators! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

In this paper, we introduce DESC💡 A truly rewarding collaboration with computational photochemists @IgorSchapiro @JonR_Church and spectroscopists from 🇫🇮 @TPRuoko @duRNDN_NA @APriimagi science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Don't miss research in our latest issue by @StuartJRowan & co @UChiChemistry @UChicagoPME on balancing ring and stopper group size to control the stability of doubly threaded [3]rotaxanes Check out their full report here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Just out in @angew_chem: our most challenging study on controlling C60 bis-addition selectivity yet (itero, regio, diastereo). Thanks to @ribas_xavi's nanocapsule and our favorite💍[10]CPP we got 87% selectivity for the "in,out-trans-3" catenane isomer 👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

We're excited to share the newest work from the Rowan Lab, "Balancing ring and stopper group size to control the stability of doubly threaded [3] rotaxanes”, published this week in @OrgBiomolChem @jerryhertzog @StuartJRowan @UChicagoPME pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Big thanks to all who contributed to this work! @mikeyliu97 @BenRawe @VincentJMaddi @RotaxaneLaura @jongwon_chicago @BaldPolymerGuy @StuartJRowan

Excited to share our recent work “Balancing ring and stopper group size to control the stability of doubly threaded [3]rotaxanes” just published in @OrgBiomolChem @StuartJRowan @UChicagoPME @UChiChemistry doi.org/10.1039/D3OB01…

Absolutely incredible authors' note:

"I'll just synthesize myself some room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductors by baking lanarkite and copper phosphide in a vacuum for a few hours" reads like step 3 in how Tony Stark builds a nuclear reactor out of a box of scraps.