Anion-Controlled Structural Interconversion of Palladium Cages Enables Separations by Selective Guest Capture and Release

​Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2026, e25696, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202525696

 

Zhe Li, Tanya K. Ronson, Charlie T. McTernan*

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* = corresponding author

Direct Active Template Synthesis of Cyclic Peptide Catenanes

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Chemrxiv, 2026, preprint, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-r2cf8

Karen Junghans, Julia Szymanska, Zhe Li, Emma Wadforth, Ellen Jamieson, Yew Mun Yip, Stephen Goldup*, Charlie T. McTernan*

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* = corresponding author

Ultrafast Water Permeation through Densely Fluorinated Single Chain Nanoparticle Foldamer Channels

​Chemrxiv, 2026, preprint, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-2bwxr

Javid Ahmad Malla, Saquib Farooq, Yew Mun Yip, Daniella E. Hares, Sugapriya Selverag, Andreas F.  Kilbinger*, Charlie. T. McTernan* 

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* = corresponding author

Peptide ligand isomerism drives divergent stability and guest binding in Pd3L4 metal-peptidic cages

Chem. Sci., 2026, 17, 3148-3156. DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC06441D

Ben B. Barber,§ Ellen M. G. Jamieson,§ Leah E. M. White,§ Charlie T. McTernan*

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§ = authorship is alphabetical

Triply Responsive Control of Ion Transport with an Artificial Channel Creates a Switchable AND to OR Logic Gate

​Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2025, e217444, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202517444

Javid Ahmad Malla, Kharina J. Fenton, Adinarayana Bellamkonda, Samuel I. Fidler, Mark I. Wallace*, Charlie T. McTernan*

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* = corresponding author

Embracing Complexity: Peptides as Tunable Scaffolds in the Construction of Discrete Supramolecular Systems

​Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2025, e202512014, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202512014

Ben B. Barber,§ Ellen M. G. Jamieson,§ Leah E. M. White,§ Charlie T. McTernan*

§ = authorship is alphabetical

Rapid Water Permeation by Aramid Foldamer Nanochannels With Hydrophobic Interiors

Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2025, e202504170, DOI: 

Saquib Farooq, Javid Ahmad Malla, Miroslava Nedyalkova, Rafael V. M. Freire, Indradip Mandal, Aurelien Crochet, Stefan Salentinig, Marco Lattuada, Charlie T. McTernan,* Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*​

Metal-Peptidic Cages – Helical Oligoprolines Generate Highly Anisitropic Nanospaces With Emergent Isomer Control

Chem, 2024, 10  (9), 2792-2806. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.05.002

Ben B. Barber,§ Ellen M. G. Jamieson,§ Leah E. M. White,§ Charlie T. McTernan*

§ = authorship is alphabetical

The Mechanical Bond in Biological Systems

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Chem, 2023, 9  (6), 1378-1412. DOI:  10.1016/j.chempr.2023.03.030

Sophie R. Beeren,§* Charlie T. McTernan,§* Fredrik Schaufelberger§*

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§ = These authors contributed equally, * = Co-corresponding author

Listening to Fathers in STEM

​Nat. Rev. Chem., 2023, 9, 67-68. DOI: 10.1038/s41570-022-00459-6

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Jennifer S. Leigh, David K. Smith, Barry A. Blight, Gareth O. Lloyd, Charlie T. McTernan, Emily R. Draper*​ 

* = Corresponding author

A Double-walled Tetrahedron with AgI4 Vertices Binds Different Guests in Distinct Sites

​Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2022, 62  (16), e202301612. DOI:  doi.org/10.1002/anie.202301612

Samuel E. Clark, Andrew W. Heard, Charlie T. McTernan, Tanya K. Ronson, Barbara Rossi, Petr Rozhin, Silvia Marchesan*, Jonathan R. Nitschke​*

Beyond Platonic: How to Build Metal-Organic Polyhedra Capable of Binding Low-Symmetry, Information-Rich Molecular Cargoes

​Chem. Rev., 2022, 122, 10393-10437. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00763

Charlie T. McTernan,​§ Jack A. Davies,​§ Jonathan R. Nitschke

​§ = These authors contributed equally

Controlling the Shape and Chirality of an Eight-Crossing Molecular Knot

​Chem, 2021, 7, 1534-1543. DOI:  10.1016/j.chempr.2021.03.005

John P. Carpenter,§ Charlie T. McTernan,§ Jake L. Greenfield, Roy Lavendomme, Tanya, K. Ronson, Jonathan R. Nitschke

§ = These authors contributed equally

Selective Anion Binding Drives the Formation of Ag8L6 and Ag12L6 Six-Stranded Helicates

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​Chem, 2020, 143 (2), 664-670. DOI:  10.1021/jacs.0c11905

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Charlie T. McTernan, Tanya K. Ronson, Jonathan R. Nitschke*

A Track-Based Molecular Synthesiser that Builds a Single-Sequence Oligomer Through Iterative Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation

​​Chem, 2020, 6, 2964-2973. DOI:  10.1016/j.chempr.2020.09.021

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Charlie T. McTernan, Guillaume De Bo, David A. Leigh*

Diverging from Nature: A New Reactivity For Molecular Synthesizers

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​Chem, 2020, 6, 2682-2864. DOI:  10.1016/j.chempr.2020.10.004

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Charlie T. McTernan*

Anion Pairs Template a Trigonal Prism with Disilver Verticies

​​J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 11409-11413. DOI:  10.1021/jacs.9b05432

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​John P. Carpenter§, Charlie T. McTernan§, Tanya K. Ronson, Jonathan R. Nitschke*

§ These authors contributed equally.

Post-Assembly Modification of Phosphine Cages Controls Host-Guest Behavior

 

​​J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 6837-6842. DOI:  10.1021/jacs.9b02604​

 

Charlie T. McTernan, Tanya K. Ronson, Jonathan R. Nitschke*​

Spontaneous Assembly of Rotaxanes from a Primary Amine, Crown Ether and Electrophile

 

​​J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 6049-6052. DOI:  10.1021/jacs.8b03394​

Stephen D. P. Fielden, David. A. Leigh*, Charlie T. McTernan, Borja Pérez-Saavedra, Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal​

Rotary and Linear Molecular Motors Driven By Pulses of a Chemical Fuel

 

Science, 2017, 358, 340-343. DOI: 10.1126/science.aao1377

Sundus Erbas-Cakmak, Stephen D. P. Fielden, Ulvi Karaca, David A. Leigh, Charlie T. McTernan, Daniel J. Tetlow, Miriam R. Wilson​

Authorship is Alphabetical

[2]Rotaxane Formation by Transition State Stabilization

 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 8455-8457. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05640

Guillaume De Bo, Guillaume Dolphijn, Charlie T. McTernan, David A. Leigh​

Authorship is Alphabetical

A Complementary Pair of Enantioselective Switchable Organocatalysts

 

Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 7077-7081. DOI: 10.1039/C7SC02462B

 

Guillaume De Bo, David A. Leigh, Charlie T. McTernan, Shoufeng Wang​

Authorship is Alphabetical

Palladium-Catalyzed Enolate Arylation as a Key C-C Bond-Forming Reaction for the Synthesis of Isoquinolines

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 1065-1090. DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02320C

 

Ben S. Pilgrim, Alice E. Gatland, Carlos H. A. Esteves, Charlie T. McTernan, Geraint R. Jones, Matthew R. Tatton, Panayiotis A. Procopiou, Timothy J. Donohoe

Artificial Molecular Machines

Chem. Rev., 2015, 115, 10081-10206. DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02320C

 

Sundus Erbas-Cakmak, David A. Leigh, Charlie T. McTernan, Alina L. Nussbaumer

Authorship is Alphabetical

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Modular Isoquinoline Synthesis using Catalytic Enolate Arylation and In Situ Functionalization

Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 6190-6193. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00146

 

Sundus Erbas-Cakmak, David A. Leigh, Charlie T. McTernan, Alina L. Nussbaumer

Authorship is Alphabetical

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