Congratulations to NJC co-Editor-in-Chief Wais Hosseini, who is one of the two CNRS Chemistry Institute laureates of the 2011 Silver Medal! This distinction is given to mid-career researchers who are recognised on the national and international level for the originality, quality and importance of their work.
Wais is a pioneer in the use of supramolecular chemistry concepts to elaborate molecular materials whose properties are gouverned by the nature of the building blocks and their mode of self-assembly. His work has shown that particularly interesting topologies, such as tubular and helical architectures, two-dimensional braids, and crystals of crystals, can be obtained using finely designed building blocks or tectons. In addition to his contribution to molecular tectonics, he has worked on the selective capture of alkali metal cations and molecular turnstiles.
Here is a selection of Wais’s recent papers in NJC and other RSC journals:
Amidinium based ionic liquids by Pierre Dechambenoit, Sylvie Ferlay, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini, New J. Chem., 2010, 34, 1184-1199. DOI: 10.1039/B9NJ00625G
Molecular tectonics: ribbon type coordination networks based on porphyrins bearing two pyridine or two pyridine N-oxide units by Emmanuel Deiters, Véronique Bulach and Mir Wais Hosseini, New J. Chem., 2008, 32, 99-104. DOI: 10.1039/B708352A
Molecular tectonics: generation of 1-D interdigitated and 2-D interwoven helical silver coordination networks by oligoethylene glycol based tectons bearing two benzonitrile moieties by Julien Bourlier, Mir Wais Hosseini, Jean-Marc Planeix and Nathalie Kyritsakas, New J. Chem., 2007, 31, 25-32. DOI: 10.1039/B611415F
Molecular tectonics: design of enantiomerically pure helical tubular crystals with controlled channel size and orientation by Mei-Jin Lin, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Philippe Grosshans, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7635-7637. DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12110C
Molecular tectonics: control of interpenetration in cuboid 3-D coordination networks by Mei-Jin Lin, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 776-778. DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00777C
An oscillating molecular turnstile by Thomas Lang, Ernest Graf, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 5244-5248. DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10184F
And for a more general look at the field:
Self-assembly and generation of complexity by Mir Wais Hosseini, Chem. Commun., 2005, 5825-5829. DOI: 10.1039/B513586A
More details about the work in Wais’s lab can be found on their website.
