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  • 2009 - Bader Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Douglas Philp is a researcher affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Materials Science. Their scholarly contributions primarily focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research spans several main topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Douglas Philp has published frequently in the following scientific venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nature
  • Angewandte Chemie

Their recent notable papers include:

  • An electric molecular motor, 2023, Nature
  • Single-Crystal Polycationic Polymers Obtained by Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Photopolymerization, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Molecular Replication Process Drives Supramolecular Polymerization, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Encoding Multiple Reactivity Modes within a Single Synthetic Replicator, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Dissipative Reaction Network Drives Transient Solid-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Phase Cycling of Nanoparticles, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yunyan Qiu
  • Hongliang Chen
  • Dengke Shen
  • Manping Jia
  • Zhichang Liu

In recognition of their work, Douglas Philp received the Bader Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Self-Assembly in Natural and Unnatural Systems

    Douglas Philp;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • Molecular meccano. 1. [2]Rotaxanes and a [2]catenane made to order

    Pier Lucio Anelli;Peter R. Ashton;Douglas Philp;Marek Pietraszkiewicz

  • Selbstorganisation in natürlichen und in nichtnatürlichen Systemen

    Douglas Philp;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • Dialkylammonium Ion/Crown Ether Complexes: The Forerunners of a New Family of Interlocked Molecules

    Peter R. Ashton;Paul J. Campbell;Peter T. Glink;Douglas Philp

  • Syntheses, structures, and properties of methanofullerenes

    François Diederich;Lyle Isaacs;Douglas Philp

  • A Photochemically Driven Molecular Machine

    Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani;Maria Teresa Gandolfi;Luca Prodi

  • Simple Mechanical Molecular and Supramolecular Machines: Photochemical and Electrochemical Control of Switching Processes

    Peter R. Ashton;Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani;Sue E. Boyd

  • Self-Assembly, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Properties of [n]Rotaxanes1

    P. R. Ashton;R. Ballardini;V. Balzani;M. Belohradsky

  • Applying biological principles to the assembly and selection of synthetic superstructures

    Lyndsey M. Greig;Douglas Philp

  • Isothiourea-catalyzed enantioselective carboxy group transfer.

    Caroline Joannesse;Craig P. Johnston;Carmen Concellón;Carmen Simal

  • Toward Controllable Molecular Shuttles

    Pier Lucio Anelli;Masumi Asakawa;Peter R. Ashton;Richard A. Bissell

  • Making Molecules Make Themselves – the Chemistry of Artificial Replicators

    Annick Vidonne;Douglas Philp

  • A simple synthetic replicator amplifies itself from a dynamic reagent pool.

    Jan W. Sadownik;Douglas Philp

  • The complexation of tetrathiafulvalene by cyclobis(Paraquat-p-phenylene)

    Douglas Philp;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Neil Spencer;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • Self-Assembly in Organic Synthesis

    Douglas Philp;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • Minimal self-replicating systems

    Andrew Robertson;Andrew J. Sinclair;Douglas Philp

  • All-cis 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexafluorocyclohexane is a facially polarized cyclohexane

    Neil Steven Keddie;Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin;Tomas Lebl;Douglas Philp

  • An electric molecular motor

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  • A New Method for the Synthesis of Aromatic Sulfurpentafluorides and Studies of the Stability of the Sulfurpentafluoride Group in Common Synthetic Transformations

    Roy D Bowden;Paul J Comina;Martin P Greenhall;Benson M Kariuki

  • Valence isomerism and rearrangements in methanofullerenes

    François Diederich;Lyle Isaacs;Douglas Philp

  • Molecular organization via ionic interactions at interfaces. 1. Monolayers and LB films of cyclic bisbipyridinium tetracations and dimyristoylphosphatidic acid

    R. C. Ahuja;P. L. Caruso;D. Moebius;G. Wildburg

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Neil Spencer
Neil Spencer University of Birmingham
Peter R. Ashton
Peter R. Ashton University of Birmingham
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
Benson M. Kariuki
Benson M. Kariuki Cardiff University
Kenneth D. M. Harris
Kenneth D. M. Harris Cardiff University
Luca Prodi
Luca Prodi University of Bologna
Wayne Hayes
Wayne Hayes University of Reading
Andrew D. Smith
Andrew D. Smith University of St Andrews
David B. Cordes
David B. Cordes University of St Andrews

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