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Nick White

@nickwhite.bsky.social
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Supramolecular chemist at the Australian National University. www.nwhitegroup.com. British-born, NZ-raised, newly Australian. Boulderer and trail runner.

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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Also out this week, part of Meabh's Honours research project investing what happens when you add methyl substituents to amidinium groups and try to make HOFs from them. Weird stuff is what happens. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Hydrogen-Bonded Networks from Poly(dimethylamidinium) Cations and Polycarboxylate Anions
Two ditopic and one tetratopic dialkylamidinium-containing compounds were synthesized and their ability to form hydrogen-bonded networks or frameworks with polycarboxylate anions was studied. A series...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Great to see this collaborative project led by @jona-foster.bsky.social reporting the first halogen-bonded nanosheets out: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Congrats to first author Prioti and the whole team.
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Michael McGuirk and I wrote an tutorial review on supramolecular frameworks (hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds etc) where we try to get everyone to agree on some common definitions for things. Might be a long shot! Hopefully useful for new students. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Defining, designing and determining the structure of supramolecular frameworks
Supramolecular frameworks, ordered porous networks assembled by noncovalent interactions, are a broad class of functional materials with emergent combinations of properties arising from the relatively...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We have a new paper out with Annie Colebatch: we metalate 6+ hydrazone cages to give M3-cage metallocages with coordinatively unsaturated metal ions. Et solubilising groups give expected 3-fold symmetric metallocages. OMe or OPr give funky low-symmetry cages tinyurl.com/4ehppaex.
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Low Symmetry Cage Complexes Formed by Metalation of Symmetric Hexa‐Cationic Organic Cages
Threefold symmetric hexa-cationic hydrazone cages coordinate a range of transition metal ions upon deprotonation. When the cage contains ethyl solubilising groups the expected threefold symmetric cag...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Very good thread on the silliness of impact factors.
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
2024 journal impact factors are out, and I had a bit of a play around comparing the numbers with 2019 IFs. Bit of a thread to follow, but general trend seems to be most journal IFs are trending downward but JACS/Angew and big “less-selective” journals buck the trend.
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Jamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky
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Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Does anyone tech-savvy know if there's a browser extension or something that get journals to just show me the normal pdf rather than their annoying epdfs? Manually deleting the e from epdf in the web address and reloading is getting tedious. #chemsky
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Who among us hasn't wanted to prepare a "mental-organic framework?" #chemsky
Journal article title: The facile preparation of mixed-valence mental-organic frameworks through reduction
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Bit belated (thanks COVID), but thanks to everyone who came to Supramol25 in Canberra last week. Some great plenaries and prize talks, and most impressively of the ~ 30 talks over 2 days, not a single one was in 4:3 format! I think this might be a career highlight.
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
1 pm Saturday: invitation to review a revision of a manuscript I've previously reviewed 6 pm Sunday: "I recently invited you to review this manuscript and have yet to receive your response" I get that journals want things signed off before Christmas, but this seems a bit much!
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We report porous halogen bonded frameworks, assembled using NaCl ion pair templation. Not stable to evacuation but stable to solvent exchange and iodine vapour. Congrats to first/corresponding author Jordan who designed the system and visiting Edinburgh MChem student Callum who first made them.
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Porous Halogen‐Bonded Frameworks Assembled through Hetero‐polytopic Ion Pair Templation
A tetratopic halogen-bond donor with a discrete cation binding site was designed and synthesised. When crystallised with NaCl, a 3D framework is formed where the charge-balancing cation is sequestere...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
New paper: We prepare robust organic cages in two steps and on large scales (up to 14 g). These can bind sulfate selectively in water. First paper in collaboration with Annie Colebatch and her group. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Expedient Decagram-Scale Synthesis of Robust Organic Cages That Bind Sulfate Strongly and Selectively in Water
Selective anion recognition remains a key challenge in supramolecular chemistry: only a very small number of systems that can function in water are known, and these nearly always preferentially bind h...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Is it OK to post papers on Bluesky? If so, end-of-year paper collaboration with Lauren Macreadie, pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... You can put cubane and bicyclopentane in hydrogen bonded frameworks, and they still absorb (a lot of) water vapour.
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Hydrogen-bonded frameworks containing aliphatic 3D linkers show high-capacity water vapour sorption
Hydrogen-bonded frameworks were prepared from a tetra-amidinium component and three-dimensional cubane and bicyclopentane dicarboxylate linkers. Despite the incorporation of aliphatic components, the ...
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Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Great to be back in Aotearoa-New Zealand where the intercity coach I'm on also doubles as the medical courier to get blood samples to the hospital in the "big" city
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