Manuel Petroselli 🇪🇺 🇮🇹

Congrats @emiliomperezlab.bsky.social! Absolutely well-deserved and good luck for this challenge!

Our next vMASC seminar will be from:

• Xavi Ribas (QBIS-CAT)

• Subhasis Chattopadhyay (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Date 📆 and time 🕰️: Thursday 29th January 2026 at 14:30 (UK time)

Register at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4 to attend!

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#vMASC

Does stirring matter in chemistry? 🤔

Read our recent editorial, responding to the Synlett paper that caused so much debate around #MixingMatters:

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📣 We’re looking for new members for our Board and Early Career Advisory Board (PhD / postdoc / PI) who care about EDIA and want to help guide the direction of WISC.
🗓 Deadline: Jan 31
👥 Open to all
👉 Apply here: www.womeninsuprachem.com/board-ecab-r...
#WomenInSTEM #SupramolecularChemistry

Ok here it is - out of 44 FDA approvals this year, 31 are small molecules (70%), 26 of those are oral drugs (84%), 22 of them are chiral (71%). This is the largest number and percentage of chiral FDA approved molecules in a single year. Fitusiran is not a small molecule, bonus.

“After all, research supervisors are just as good as their students” — Sir J. Fraser Stoddart.

A wise take-home message from one of the founding fathers of MASC—who sadly passed away almost a year ago—in a 1991 BBC broadcast.

#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC

(Part 2/2) The chemical structure and shape of the molecular receptors affect the affinity towards free-radicals, while host-guest interactions are used to fine-tune the HAT reactivity, mimicking enzyme modulation in biological systems.

(Part 1/2) We report a series of endo-functionalized molecular receptors based on a calix[4]pyrrole scaffold, which exhibit Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) reactivity towards free-radicals (e.g., peroxyl radicals).

Enzyme-like Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) Based Endo-Functionalized Molecular Receptors We report a series of endo-functionalized molecular receptors based on a calix[4]pyrrole scaffold, which exhibit Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) reactivity towards free-radicals (e.g., peroxyl radicals)....

📢 Finally out! Just published on Organic Letters @pubs.acs.org my recent research at @uniupo.bsky.social in collaboration with #LucaValgimigli at @unibo.it and #PabloBallester at @iciq.org We report #supramolecular #antioxidants modulated via #host-#guest chemistry!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#DISITSeminarSeries

Thank you Dr. #AnnalisaRoveta from #AziendaOspedaliero-Universitaria for visiting @uniupo.bsky.social and delivering an inspiring seminar on "Translation Laboratories in awction: Building Brisges between Hospital and University."

More info 👇🏻
sites.google.com/uniupo.it/disi

#ICIQNews

👏🏼 Prof. Katherine Villa and Prof. José A. Berrocal, new ICREA Research Professors

🧑🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 With their appointment to one of the most prestigious scientific communities in Catalonia, the ICIQ now hosts 11 ICREA researchers.

👉🏼 iciq.org/new/two-iciq...

@icreacommunity.bsky.social @cerca.cat

#DISITSeminarSeries

Thank you Prof. #RiccardoSalvio from #UniversityTorVergata for visiting @uniupo.bsky.social and delivering an amazing seminar on " #SupramolecularCatalysis: from #NanostructredEnzyme mimics to #TemporallyControlled Catalysts."

More info 👇🏻
sites.google.com/uniupo.it/disi

#DISITSeminarSeries

Thank you Prof. #LucaValgimigli from @unibo.it for visiting @uniupo.bsky.social and delivering a seminar on "Non-Conventional #Antioxidants and their applications in #ferroptosis."

Know more about the seminar 👇🏻 sites.google.com/uniupo.it/disi…

#DISITSeminarSeries

Thank you Prof. #MichaelChan from City University of Hong Kong for visiting @uniupo.bsky.social and delivering a seminar on #Dynamic #Helical #Metallopolymers and their potential applications.

Know more about the seminar 👇🏻
sites.google.com/uniupo.it/di...

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the #RSCResearchFunds grant at @uniupo.bsky.social for the project #Supramolecular Control of #Radical #Reactivity: From #Inibition to #Catalysis (SURICA).
Thanks to @rsc.org for believing and supporting this cutting-edge project.

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the #RSCResearchFunds grant at @uniupo.bsky.social for the project #Supramolecular Control of #Radical #Reactivity: From #Inibition to #Catalysis (SURICA).
Thanks to @rsc.org for believing and supporting this cutting-edge project.

Congrats Jake! All the best for your future!

The 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR2025) is approaching !

Final scientific program is now available at www.esor2025.com

Last minute registrations can still be accepted until 31 August (including poster presentation) !

#ChemSky

🥳So excited to see our work highlighted #OnTheCover of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (Outside Back Cover)!!
Many thanks to Jo Richers Studio for designing this beautiful piece of art!🤩

👀Check out the full story here:
doi.org/10.1002/anie...

#ProudPI
#SupramolecularChem
#ChemTwitter
#WomenInSTEM

2025 MASC Prize Calls MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group 2025 MASC Prize Calls 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in memory of John Fossey: The RSC MASC Group P…

The 2025 MASC Group Awards are all open for nominations, with the following deadlines:

🏆 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 Bob Hay Award Lectureship. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 MASC Group PhD Thesis Award. 📆 7th Nov

🏆 MASC/WISC EDIA Award. 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

vMASC Call to volunteer for the vMASC committee vMASC: Expression of interest to volunteer for the vMASC committee The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry We are inviting members of the vMASC community to…

📣 Call for Volunteers - vMASC 📣

Submit your expression of interest to join the vMASC organising committee!

Deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025

Eligibility: full-time researcher (including early career) + member of RSC MASC Interest Group

Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

An information ratchet improves selectivity in molecular recognition under non-equilibrium conditions Nature Nanotechnology - An abiotic information ratchet mechanism increases selectivity for the correct DNA duplex from 2:1 at equilibrium to 6:1 under energy-dissipating conditions.

Great to see this paper published today !! Phenomenal work by @benjaminoacid.bsky.social in collaboration with Erica Del Grosso and Francesco Ricci at Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Many thanks to @epenocchio.bsky.social for contributing. 1/n

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Tailoring Tubular Supramolecular Polymers with Polar Lumens to Host Hydrophilic Dye Molecules A unique class of tubular polymer structures that are soluble in apolar organic solvents but are endowed with polar pores has been created through the rational design of the monomer units, which self...

Thrilled to share our recently published work!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities Inspired by the extraordinary attributes displayed by nanotubes in Nature, the creation of self-assembled nano-sized hollow tubes is an area of significant and growing interest given its potential app...

Take a look to our last review in @chemsocrev.rsc.org, where we discuss the different strategies to obtain self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities. Congrats to Marina, Jacobo, Paula, Fátima and @davidgrlab.bsky.social
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A Column Chromatography-Free Protocol for the Synthesis of Water-Soluble Cavitands An efficient synthetic protocol for the synthesis of a library of unprecedented resorcin[4]arene-based water-soluble molecular containers is reported here. Key to this approach is the tetra-iodo deriv...

My recent work is finally out and #openaccess on JOC! @chemistryeurope.bsky.social

We developed a versatile, column chromatography-free methodology to produce a library of organic and water-soluble molecular containers via the Sonogashira coupling reaction. #OrgChem

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

This one is special: first article in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit, a wild idea ultimately leading to an excellent metal 🪙scavenger and organic battery 🔋material. With: K. Leopold #sulfur #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Come to Copenhagen for www.esoc2025.com - the conference starts Sunday June 29th...that is in a week! There is still time to sign up (lnkd.in/dh8FBJY7)! The first afternoon Morten Meldal and Eric Jacobsen (lnkd.in/djGy2Syw ) will speak!

Social media and connecting with our community

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky