Professor Christopher Hunter
Winner: 2020 Supramolecular Chemistry Award
University of Cambridge
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-forming sequence oligomers and catalytic assemblies.
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Our research will not only be fundamental science in its own right, but it will also be technology that can be implemented in biological and materials applications.
The major advances that were made in chemistry in the last century were built on the development of a set of design rules for covalent chemistry that allowed the quantitative prediction of reactivity and molecular shape based on the chemical bonding in the molecules.
The goal of Professor Hunter and his team’s research is to establish a comparable set of rules for non-covalent chemistry that can be used for the design of supramolecular systems that are held together by weak interactions with equal reliability. This will not only be fundamental science in its own right, relevant to a broad range of chemical problems, but it will also be technology that can be implemented in biological and materials applications.
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