Professor Scott L. Cockroft
Personal Chair of Supramolecular Chemistry
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 4758
- Email: scott.cockroft@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Cockroft Group Website
Address
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Room 222
University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FJ - City
- Post code
Research summary
Physical organic chemistry, molecular recognition, non-covalent interactions, supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines
Research overview
Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Research in the Cockroft group spans organic chemistry and bionanotechnology. We combine molecules of synthetic and biological origins to examine the physical organic chemistry underpinning molecular interactions and the operation of molecular machines.
Context-dependent significance of London dispersion L. A. Gravillier, S. L. Cockroft*. Acc. Chem. Res., 56, 23, 3535–3544 (2023) -Featured in Acc. Chem. Res. 'Special Issue - Dispersion Interactions in Chemistry'
Quantifying through-space substituent effects R. J. Burns, I. K. Mati, K. B. Muchowska, C. Adam, S. L. Cockroft*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 16717-16724 (2020). -Featured in: Nature Reviews Chemistry and as a Hot Paper in Angew. Chem. -Also see commentary in Chemistry World
The origin of chalcogen-bonding interactions D. J. Pascoe, K. B. Ling, S. L. Cockroft*. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 15160-15167 (2017).
Synthetically diversified protein nanopores: Resolving click reaction mechanisms M. M. Haugland, S. Borsley, D. F. Cairns-Gibson, A. Elmi, S. L. Cockroft*. ACS Nano, 13, 4101–4110 (2019)