Professor Amar Flood delivered the inaugural Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize lecture at at the 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (6-ISMSC) in Brighton last week. The lecture, entitled ‘Binding and releasing anions with CH hydrogen-bonded receptors’, discussed his group’s efforts to regulate chloride concentrations in solution using aryl-triazole foldamers bearing azobenzene units. The foldamers can reversibly bind and liberate chloride depending on the wavelength of light shone on them.
The prize was sponsored by ChemComm and Dr Robert Eagling, ChemComm Editor, presented the certificate to Professor Flood.
- Professor Amar Flood (right) receives his award certificate from ChemComm Editor Dr Robert Eagling
You can read some of Professor Flood’s recent research in the recent supramolecular chemistry web theme issue:
Two levels of conformational pre-organization consolidate strong CH hydrogen bonds in chloride–triazolophane complexes
Yuran Hua, Raghunath O. Ramabhadran, Jonathan A. Karty, Krishnan Raghavachari and Amar H. Flood, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 5979-5981
Find out more about ISMSC in my conference blog.
And don’t forget – there is still time to submit your nomination for the 2012 Cram Lehn Pedersen prize. Deadline 31st July 2011. See the call for nominations for more details.
