News
2013 - 2018
September 2017
Cover ART and latest work
tour de force on physical organic chemistry to undestand solvation in anion recognition
Publiched in Chem (from Cell Press)
August 2017
See latest effort to make Coulomb turn over in his grave with with phosphate anion-anion dimers (blue); this time with switching in ACIE
June 2017
GRC Chaired and GRS Chaired by Fred Parks on "Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors"
— A nice celebration of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry —
April 2017
See our new JACS with Bo Laursen to tease out hierarchical self-assembly
November 2016
See our new JACS on Extreme Stabilization of Radicals inside Cyanostars
And the nice highlight by Xin Su on ACS site "Cutting Edge Chemistry"
October 2016
See our new ACIE challenging Coulomb and his law with two hydroxanions stabilizing each other...
...better known as "when anions attract"
And lots of nice press: C&EN, Quartz, Spectroscopy Now, NSF, and IU Press Release
New Paper: Redefining "shape persistent macrocycles" with cyanostars examined by MD and DFT
Cyanostars are shape persistent and flexible like hummingbirds hover with a static body and rapidly moving wings
March 2016
Collaboration between Flood, Shulten (UIUC) and Raghavachari:
Liu, Y.; Singharoy, A.; Mayne, C. G.; Sengupta, A.; Raghavachari, K.; Shulten, K.; Flood, A. H., Flexibility Coexists with Shape-Persistence in Cyanostar Macrocycles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4843–4851 DOI
January 2016
See our Angewandte Chemie SPOTLIGHT on tricarb
Hot Paper, Cover Art and the Newest Macrocycle "Tricarb" and its Multilayer Self-assembly
December 2015
Collaboration between Flood and Tait
NEW FUNDING -- "DMREF: Multiscale Theory for Designing Hierarchical Organic Materials formed by Self-assembly"
August 2015
Collaboration between Flood (PI), Tait, Ortoleva and Baik
NEW CONFERENCE -- Gordon Research Conference on "Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors"
June 2015
Inaugural conference chaired by Rafal Klajn with Amar as Vice-Chair
NSF WORKSHOP -- "Accelerating our Understanding of Supramolecular Chemistry in Aqueous Solutions"
May 2015
Co-organized with Bruce Gobb, David Mobley and Paul Cremer
HOT PAPER -- Using Biology to teach Chemistry a Trick or Two
June 2015
Macromolecular Crystallography for Synthetic Abiological Molecules: Combining xMDFF and PHENIX for Structure Determination of Cyanostar Macrocycles
Cool collaboration between Klaus Shulten (Molecular Modelling at UIUC), and Adam Zlotnick (Structural Biology at IU)
HONORS -- Congratulations to Amar for being the recipient of Indiana University's Luther Dana Waterman Professoship and promoted to Full Professor
May 2015
GRADUATION -- Congratulations to Group Members Semin Lee and Brandon Hirsch
May 2015
Featured: Semin Lee (Flood Group), Brandon Hirsch (joint Flood-Tait) and Daniel Skomski (Tait Group)
New FUNDING for Tait-Flood Collaboration from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
January 2015
New Institute of Advanced Study (IAS, Indiana University) Support for a collaboration with Professor Bo Laursen at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry Funded Postdoc -- Welcome Elisa Fatila
April 2014
August 1, 2014
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Latest Paper -- Printing Molecules in 3D
lets others
SEE, HOLD and SPIN THEM -- see movie below
Chen, T.-H.; Lee, S.; Flood, A. H.; Miljanic, O. S., How to print a crystal structure model in 3D, CrystEngComm 2014, 16, 5488–5493. OPEN ACCESS–DOI
See also the news coverage by: Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) and in Chemistry World
Computer-aided Design (CAD) of Receptor for Bifluoride
Ramabhadran, R. O.; Liu, Y.; Hua, Y.; Ciardi, M.; Flood, A. H.; Raghavachari, K., An Overlooked yet Ubiquitous Fluoride Congenitor: Binding Bifluoride in Triazolophanes using Computer-Aided Design, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 5078–5089. DOI
Amar Flood as named the
James F. Jackson Associate Professor of Chemistry
(Feb 2014)
Congratulations to Semin Lee named a 2014 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Semin will join Jeff Moore's research group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Feb 2014)
Upcoming Events for 2014
Dallas ACS – Talks on (1) Cyanostars, (2) Hydrophobic Collapse in Cl-binding Foldamers,
(3) Anion-driven Switching in 2D Crystals and (4) Tetrazine Switches
FNANO – Chairing Session on Chemically Integrated Systems with talks from Lee Cronin, Linda Shimizi and Jean Chielewski
ISMSC-9 in Shanghai
Telluride Conference on Molecular Switches, Machines and Motors
Congratulations to Semin Lee named a 2014 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Semin will join Jeff Moore's research group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Just Published Online and now Open Access – A New Ligand-based Complex with more Redox States than Expected
Amplifying the Redox Activity of a bis-Tetrazine Pincer Ligand, Dalton. 2014, 43, 6513–6524. DOI
Benson, C. R.; Hui, A. K.; Parimal, K.; Cook, B. J.; Chen, C.-H.; Lord, R. L.; Flood, A. H.; Caulton, K. C.,
Student Highlights from 2013
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
ISMSC-8 (Arlington, VA), 6 posters from the group, two poster prizes and a DOE travel award
ACS Fall Indianapolis – 12 presentations from the Flood Group (6 posters, 6 orals)
NOBCChE Research Symposium, Indiana University – Four posters and one poster award
+ others: FNANO, Earnest Campaigne Symp. on Heterocyclic Chem., PINDU
POSTER PRIZES
Semin Lee
ISMSC-8 – Conference vote winner, Arlington, VA
NOBCChE Research Symposium, Indiana University
Chris Benson
NOBCChE Research Symposium, Indiana University
Brandon Hirsch (see photo)
Fall ACS, Indianapolis – Colloids Division
ISMSC-8 – Grand Poster Prize Winner (Nature Chemistry and ChemComm), Arlington, VA
STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
Semin Lee
Chester Davis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry (Indiana University)
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT – BEYOND IU
Kevin McDonald
Congratulations to Kevin McDonald for securing a job in the polymer group at Nalco, an Ecolab Company in Naperville, IL.
Kevin joins one of many graduates from the Flood Group who have been employed in the world of functional materials. Yuran Hua (PhD 2012) is currently working for 3M in Shanghai, Kumar Parimal (PhD 2011) is working for Sabic, Innovative Plastics in Evansville, IN, and Kristy McNitt (MS 2008) is with 3M in Minnesota, MN.
December 2013: Amar is a new member of the Editorial Board for Supramolecular Chemistry
September 2013:
JACS Article showing how abiological foldamers
– in the form of double helices wrapped up around a single Cl anion–
can display hydrophobic collapse in the same way as proteins
Read more: Hua, Y; Liu, Y; Chen, C.-H.; Flood, A. H., Hydrophobic Collapse of Foldamer Capsules Drives Picomolar-Level Chloride Binding in Aqueous Acetonitrile Solutions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 14401–14412. DOI
Conference 2013, July 7–11, Arlington VA
Organizers: Lyle Isaacs and Jeffery T. Davis (Univ. of Maryland), Amar H. Flood (Indiana Univ.)
Group Photo at the ISMSC Conference
Arlington, VA,
July 7-11, 2013
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Chris, Bo, Kevin, Brandon, Yun and Semin
Celebrating at the end of the banquet at the ISMSC
June, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS to Semin Lee for winning a Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award
This award will be used to attend the National ACS Meeting in Indianapolis. Semin will present two talks on Cyanostars and Photoactive Foldamers
April, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS to the Award Winners
Bo Qiao for Excellence in Associate Instruction, Indiana University
Semin Lee for the Charles H. Stammer Award in Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
Patrick Gamache for a Summer Fellowship in Undergraduate Research, Indiana University
February, 2013
Cover Art
Lee, S.; Flood, A. H., Photoresponsive receptors for binding and releasing anions (Mini Review), J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2013 26, 79-86. Cover Art DOI