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2025

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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
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Overview

Wesley R. Browne is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and chemistry, with particular emphasis on materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. They have contributed significantly to related subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience and molecular biology.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry. Additional topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry and complexes.

Browne has authored papers in several scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent outlets for their work include the University of Groningen research database, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, Nature Chemistry, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

Some of their recent publications are:

  • Visible-Light-Driven Rotation of Molecular Motors in a Dual-Function Metal-Organic Framework Enabled by Energy Transfer, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Emergence of light-driven protometabolism on recruitment of a photocatalytic cofactor by a self-replicator, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Photoresponsive porous materials, 2020, Nanoscale Advances
  • Cooperative light-induced breathing of soft porous crystals via azobenzene buckling, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Isolation of a Ru(iv) side-on peroxo intermediate in the water oxidation reaction, 2021, Nature Chemistry

Frequent co-authors with whom Browne has collaborated include:

  • Ben L. Feringa
  • Andy S. Sardjan
  • Wojciech Danowski
  • C. Maurits de Roo
  • Simon Krause

Best Publications

  • Making molecular machines work

    Wesley R. Browne;Ben L. Feringa

  • Chiroptical Molecular Switches

    Wesley R. Browne;Ben L. Feringa

  • Molecular Switches: FERINGA:MOL.SWIT.2ED 2VOL O-BK

    Ben L. Feringa;Wesley R. Browne

  • The evolution of spiropyran: fundamentals and progress of an extraordinarily versatile photochrome.

    Luuk Kortekaas;Wesley R. Browne

  • Functionalization of graphene via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

    Mildred Quintana;Konstantinos Spyrou;Marek Grzelczak;Wesley R. Browne

  • Multiphotochromic molecular systems

    Arnaud Fihey;Aurélie Perrier;Aurélie Perrier;Wesley R Browne;Denis Jacquemin;Denis Jacquemin

  • Light Switching of Molecules on Surfaces

    Wesley R. Browne;Ben L. Feringa

  • MHz Unidirectional Rotation of Molecular Rotary Motors

    Martin Klok;Nicola Boyle;Mary T. Pryce;Auke Meetsma

  • Dispersion of graphene in ethanol using a simple solvent exchange method

    Xiaoyan Zhang;Anthony C. Coleman;Nathalie Katsonis;Wesley R. Browne

  • Ultrafast dynamics in the power stroke of a molecular rotary motor

    Jamie Conyard;Kiri Addison;Ismael A. Heisler;Arjen Cnossen

  • Dynamic control over cell adhesive properties using molecular-based surface engineering strategies

    Jort Robertus;Wesley R. Browne;Ben L. Feringa

  • Unidirectional rotary motion in a metal-organic framework

    Wojciech Danowski;Thomas van Leeuwen;Shaghayegh Abdolahzadeh;Diederik Roke

  • Oxidative Electrochemical Switching in Dithienylcyclopentenes, Part 2: Effect of Substitution and Asymmetry on the Efficiency and Direction of Molecular Switching and Redox Stability

    Wesley R. Browne;Jaap J. D. de Jong;Tibor Kudernac;Martin Walko

  • On the mechanism of the copper-catalyzed enantioselective 1,4-addition of grignard reagents to alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds.

    Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan;Fernando Lopez;Wesley R. Browne;Arkaitz Correa

  • Oxidative Electrochemical Switching in Dithienylcyclopentenes, Part 1: Effect of Electronic Perturbation on the Efficiency and Direction of Molecular Switching

    Wesley R. Browne;Jaap J. D. de Jong;Tibor Kudernac;Martin Walko

  • Mechanisms in manganese catalysed oxidation of alkenes with H2O2

    Pattama Saisaha;Johannes W. de Boer;Wesley R. Browne

  • Autonomous propulsion of carbon nanotubes powered by a multienzyme ensemble

    Davide Pantarotto;Wesley R. Browne;Ben L. Feringa

  • Reversible Photochemical Control of Singlet Oxygen Generation Using Diarylethene Photochromic Switches

    Lili Hou;Xiaoyan Zhang;Thomas C. Pijper;Wesley R. Browne

  • Elucidating excited state electronic structure and intercomponent interactions in multicomponent and supramolecular systems

    Wesley R. Browne;Noel M. O'Boyle;John J. McGarvey;Johannes G. Vos

  • cis-Dihydroxylation and Epoxidation of Alkenes by [Mn2O(RCO2)2(tmtacn)2]: Tailoring the Selectivity of a Highly H2O2-Efficient Catalyst

    Johannes W. de Boer;Jelle Brinksma;Wesley R. Browne;Auke Meetsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben L. Feringa
Ben L. Feringa University of Groningen
Johannes G. Vos
Johannes G. Vos Dublin City University
Ronald Hage
Ronald Hage Leiden University
John J. McGarvey
John J. McGarvey Queen's University Belfast
Auke Meetsma
Auke Meetsma University of Groningen
Stephen R. Meech
Stephen R. Meech University of East Anglia
Marc C. A. Stuart
Marc C. A. Stuart University of Groningen
Gerard Roelfes
Gerard Roelfes University of Groningen
Denis Jacquemin
Denis Jacquemin University of Nantes
Petra Rudolf
Petra Rudolf University of Groningen

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