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Authorship in the McTernan Group is Alphabetical, to enable collaboration and teamwork. 

Rapid Water Permeation by Aramid Foldamer Nanochannels With Hydrophobic Interiors

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

Saquib FarooqJavid Ahmad MallaMiroslava NedyalkovaRafael V. M. FreireIndradip MandalAurelien CrochetStefan SalentinigMarco LattuadaCharlie T. McTernan,* Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*​

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

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

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

§ = authorship is alphabetical

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The Mechanical Bond in Biological Systems

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Chem, 2023, 9  (6), 1378-1412DOI:  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

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Listening to Fathers in STEM

​Nat. Rev. Chem., 2023, 9, 67-68DOI: 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

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

​Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2022, 62  (16), e202301612DOI:  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​*

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

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

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

​§ = These authors contributed equally

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

​Chem, 2021, 7, 1534-1543DOI:  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Diverging from Nature: A New Reactivity For Molecular Synthesizers

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

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Charlie T. McTernan*

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Anion Pairs Template a Trigonal Prism with Disilver Verticies

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

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

§ These authors contributed equally.

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

Science, 2017, 358, 340-343DOI: 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

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[2]Rotaxane Formation by Transition State Stabilization

 

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

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

Authorship is Alphabetical

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A Complementary Pair of Enantioselective Switchable Organocatalysts

 

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

 

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

Authorship is Alphabetical

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