Cronin, Lee - University of Glasgow

个人简介

Lee Cronin was born in the UK and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started thinking about programming chemistry and looking for inorganic aliens. He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in Chemistry and then on to do post docs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002 working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 aged 39. He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35 M in grants and current income of $15 M. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals and construct chemical computers.

研究领域

Cronin group researchers are divided into subgroups and teams. The aim of the subgroups is to provide a discussion framework for researchers that share similar technical needs, face common challenges and study similar chemistries, while project teams responsible for delivering high quality research in specific areas of work. The research is anchored by four key missions: exploration of the assembly of artificial life in the lab, the digitization of chemistry and self-assembly, elucidation of the fundamentals of information theory in chemistry, and the creation of a chemical computer.

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Formalising the pathways of life to using assembly spaces, S. M. Marshall, D. G. Moore, A. R. G. Murray, S. I. Walker, L. Cronin, Entropy, 2022, 24, 884, https://doi.org/10.3390/e24070884. Engineering Highly Reduced Molybdenum Polyoxometalates via the Incorporation of d and f Block Metal Ions, E. Garrido-Ribo, N. L. Bell, D. -L. Long, L. Cronin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202201672, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202201672. Effective Storage of Electrons in Water by the Formation of Highly Reduced Polyoxometalate Clusters, J. - J. Chen, L. Vila-Nadal, A. Sole-Daura, G. Chisholm, T. Minato, C. Busche, T. Zhao, B. Kandasamy, A. Y. Ganin, R. M. Smith, I. Colliard, J. J. Carbo, J. M. Poblet, M. Nyman, L. Cronin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 8951-8960, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10584. Digitizing Chemical Synthesis in 3D Printed Reactionware, A. Bubliauskas, D. J. Blair, H. Powell-Davies, P. J. Kitson, M. D. Murke, L. Cronin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202116108. Hydrogen from water electrolysis, G. Chisholm, T. Zhao, L. Cronin, Science Direct, 2022, 559-591, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824510-1.00015-5. Investigating the autocatalytically driven formation of Keggin-based polyoxometalate clusters, D. Lockey, C. Mathis, H. N. Miras, L. Cronin, Matter, 2022, 5, 302-313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.11.030. Exploring the sequence space of unknown oligomers and polymers, D. Doran, E. Clarke, G. Keenan, E. Carrick, C. Mathis, L. Cronin, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2, 100685, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100685. Exploring the Hidden Constraints that Control the Self-Assembly of Nanomolecular Inorganic Clusters, L. Cronin, Bulletin of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, 2021, 78, 11-17, https://doi.org/10.4019/bjscc.78.11. Facile and Reproducible Electrochemical Synthesis of the Giant Polyoxomolybdates, M. T. -K. Ng, N. L. Bell, D. -L. Long, L. Cronin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 20059-20063, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10198. An [Fe III 30] molecular metal oxide, A. E. Dearle, D. J. Cutler, M. Coletta, E. Lee, S. Dey, S. Sanz, H. W. L. Fraser, G. S. Nichol, G. Rajaraman, J. Schnack, L. Cronin, E. K. Brechin, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 52-55, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC06224G. Discovering New Chemistry with an Autonomous Robotic Platform Driven by a Reactivity-Seeking Neural Network, D. Caramelli, J. M. Granda, S. H. M. Mehr, D. Cambie, A. B. Henson, L. Cronin, ACS Cent. Sci., 2021, 7, 1821-1830, doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.1c00435. Chapter Seven - Advances in gigantic polyoxomolybdate chemistry, D. -L. Long, L. Cronin, Adv Inorg Chem, 2021, 78, 227-267, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adioch.2021.06.003. Bell inequality in chiral liquids, S. Restuccia, G. M. Gibson, L. Cronin, M. J. Padgett, Proc. SPEI 11881, 2021, 1188112, doi.org/10.1117/12.2601516. Exploring and mapping chemical space with molecular assembly trees, Y. Liu, C. Mathis, M. D. Bajczyk, S. M. Marshall, L. Wilbraham, L. Cronin, Sci. Adv., 2021, 7, 10.1126/sciadv.abj2465. Exploring the Geometric Space of Metal−Organic Polyhedrons (MOPs) of Metal-Oxo Clusters, B. Kandasamy, E. Lee, D. -L. Long, N. L. Bell, L. Cronin, Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 14772-14778, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01987. Design of Experiments for Optimization of Polyoxometalate Syntheses, N. L. Bell, M. Kupper, L. Cronin, Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 7263-7271, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01401. Chemputation and the Standardization of Chemical Informatics, A. J. S. Hammer, A. I. Leonov, N. L. Bell, L. Cronin, JACS Au, 2021, 1, 1572-1587, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacsau.1c00303. Enantioselective Recognition of Racemic Amino Alcohols in Aqueous Solution by Chiral Metal-Oxide Keplerate {Mo 132 } Cluster Capsules, R. W. Pow, Z. L. Sinclair, N. L. Bell, N. Watfa, Y. M. Abul-Haija, D. -L. Long, L. Cronin, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 12327-12334, http://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202100899. [Fe15]: a frustrated, centred tetrakis hexahedron, D. J. Cutler, M. K. Singh, G. S. Nichol, M. Evangelisti, J. Schnack, L. Cronin, E. K. Brechin, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 8925-8928, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC03919A. Robotic Stepwise Synthesis of Hetero-Multinuclear Metal Oxo Clusters as Single-Molecule Magnets, T. Minto, D. Salley, N. Mizuno, K. Yamaguchi, L. Cronin, K. Suzuki, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 12809-12816, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c06047.