Richard Winpenny
2017; Wiley; Volume: 56; Issue: 41 Linguagem: Alemão
10.1002/anie.201704808
ISSN1521-3773
Tópico(s)Machine Learning in Materials Science
ResumoAngewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 41 p. 12406-12407 Author ProfileFree Access Richard Winpenny First published: 14 June 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201704808AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My favorite way to spend a holiday is with my large wonderful family. I am waiting for the day when someone will discover how to make fillet steak and butter into health foods ...” This and more about Richard Winpenny can be found on page 12406. Richard Winpenny The author presented on this page has published more than 25 articles in Angewandte Chemie since 2000, including: “Binding CO2 by a Cr8 Metallacrown”: I. J. Vitórica-Yrezábal, D. F. Sava, G. A. Timco, M. S. Brown, M. Savage, H. G. W. Godfrey, F. Moreau, M. Schröder, F. Siperstein, L. Brammer, S. Yang, M. P. Attfield, J. J. W. McDouall, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 5527; Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 5619. The work of R. E. P. Winpenny has been featured on the cover of Angewandte Chemie: “Linking Rings through Diamines and Clusters: Exploring Synthetic Methods for Making Magnetic Quantum Gates”: M. Affronte, I. Casson, M. Evangelisti, A. Candini, S. Carretta, C. A. Muryn, S. J. Teat, G. A. Timco, W. Wernsdorfer, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6496; Angew. Chem. 2005, 117, 6654. Date of birth: December 22, 1963 Position: Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Manchester E-mail: Richard.winpenny@manchester.ac.uk Homepage: http://www.molmag.manchester.ac.uk/ ORCID: 0000-0002-7101-3963 Education: 1985 Undergraduate degree, Imperial College London 1988 PhD supervised by Profs. David Goodgame and David Williams, Imperial College London 1988–1989 Postdoctoral position with Prof. John Fackler Jr., Texas A&M University Awards: 2009–2014 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award; 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tilden Prize; 2016 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales; 2016 RSC Ludwig Mond Prize Research: Coordination chemistry, molecular magnetism, supramolecular chemistry, lithography Hobbies: Music, reading, playing games with my family, surviving My favorite way to spend a holiday is with my large wonderful family. I am waiting for the day when someone will discover how to make fillet steak and butter into health foods. The secret of being a successful scientist is unknown to me; please could someone who considers themselves to be successful please share this information! My favorite molecule is probably the latest amazing molecule crystallized by Grigore Timco, Antonio Fernandez, or another member of my group. So currently it is a hybrid [3]-rotaxane containing two different heterometallic rings. Paper to follow! My science “heroes” are too numerous to list, but mainly people who have had to put up with me as a supervisor. Or as a PhD student or postdoc. If I had one year of paid leave I would probably worry about not being at work. The principal aspect of my personality is a lack of principles. Or too many principles. Or both at the same time. What I appreciate most about my friends is that they have too much sense to read this profile. My favorite musician is Bob Dylan. Or rather was Bob Dylan, until he started crooning Frank Sinatra songs. My motto is “it is not he or she or them or it you belong to”. The greatest scientific advance of the last decade was too recent to answer this question seriously. When I was eighteen I wanted to be taller. If I could be described as an animal it would be an overweight homo sapiens with a moustache. The biggest challenge facing scientists is the challenge of doing any research at all while attempting to escape from endless pointless bureaucracy inflicted on us by ill-informed lunatics. The most significant historic event of the past 100 years was one of a long list of appalling atrocities committed by any number of supposedly civilized countries. Take your pick. My first experiment was trying to sit up. I failed repeatedly, but persistence paid off. If I could be any age I would be fifty-three. My favorite time of day is early morning. I advise my students to ignore your supervisor at all times, except on issues of health and safety. How has your approach to chemistry research changed since the start of your career? I'm completely reliant on an outstanding team in Manchester and amazing collaborators elsewhere to pursue the research I think is important. I worry that nowadays I have to spend too much time writing grant proposals and too little time thinking. At the start of my career, we could publish interesting papers based on the work of a handful of people. Now, to carry out world-leading research, we use far more resources and need this big team. I believe my ideas have developed and our work has improved, but this may be a delusion. How do you think your field of research will evolve over the next 10 years? This is a question I don't want to answer. I know what I'm planning, but there are so many talented chemists in the world I don't want to write these plans down—even in a profile piece people might have stopped reading by this point. I've always been lucky that people don't copy what we do (many thanks everyone!), but this can always change. Also, as most scientific careers involve a fair number of accidental discoveries, I suspect my answer would be inaccurate, and it's always nice to claim you planned to do something, even when you didn't plan it at all. My 5 top papers: References 1“Synthesis and Characterization of Heterometallic {Cr7M} Wheels”: F. K. Larsen, E. J. L. McInnes, H. El Mkami, J. Overgaard, S. Piligkos, G. Rajaraman, E. Rentschler, A. A. Smith, G. M. Smith, V. Boote, M. Jennings, G. A. Timco, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 101; Angew. Chem. 2003, 115, 105. When we did this work, I realized that it could lead in many directions, and was better than any work we had done up to this point. The compounds were made by my good friend Grigore Timco, using beautifully elegant chemistry, and we've now enjoyed studying them for over a dozen years. I like the paper because it was a starting point for something big, and also because I could see most of the future directions immediately. I'm even more delighted that most of the plans actually worked. 2“Quantum Oscillations of the Total Spin in a Heterometallic Antiferromagnetic Ring: Evidence from Neutron Spectroscopy”: S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, T. Guidi, J. R. D. Copley, Y. Qiu, R. Caciuffo, G. Timco, R. E. P. Winpenny, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 167401. This paper is one of my favorites for two reasons: firstly the experiment was almost impossible—we needed a four-gram single molecular crystal, a temperature well below 1 K, and an 11 Tesla magnetic field. The crystal was so large it was impounded by the Food & Drug Administration in New York on its way to the experiment. Secondly, the results showed me in a way I believe that states of the same symmetry don't cross. I've taught this for decades in electronic spectroscopy; demonstrating that it is true using neutrons was very satisfying. 3“A modular design of molecular qubits to implement universal quantum gates”: J. Ferrando-Soria, E. Moreno Pineda, A. Chiesa, A. Fernandez, S. A. Magee, S. Carretta, P. Santini, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, F. Tuna, G. A. Timco, E. J. L. McInnes, R. E. P. Winpenny, Nature Commun. 2016, 7, 113774. The chemistry to make the molecules in this paper was hugely demanding, and Jesus, Eufemio, Antonio, and Grigore did an astounding job. The EPR spectra are very beautiful and their interpretation was beautifully simple and elegant. The paper was completed by fascinating calculations performed in Parma by our good friends Alessandro, Stefano, and Paolo. It is always a pleasure to publish a really complete piece of work. 4“Making hybrid [n]-rotaxanes as supramolecular arrays of molecular electron spin qubits”: A. Fernandez, J. Ferrando-Soria, E. M. Pineda, F. Tuna, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, C. Knappke, J. Ujma, C. A. Muryn, G. A. Timco, P. E. Barran, A. Ardavan, R. E. P. Winpenny, Nature Commun. 2016, 7, 10240. I did my PhD at Imperial College London. One of my supervisors, David Williams, was also doing crystal structure analyses for Fraser Stoddart at the time, and I was amazed even then at the beautiful interlocking structures Fraser's group was making. So it was a pleasure to start making interlocked rotaxanes in collaboration with my colleague David Leigh, and then to extend that work in this paper. The ability to make [3]-, [4]-, [5]-, and [7]-rotaxanes with complete control felt like a major achievement, and again the spectra were very beautiful. 5“Use of Supramolecular Assemblies as Lithographic Resists”: S. M. Lewis, A. Fernandez, G. A. DeRose, M. S. Hunt, G. F. S. Whitehead, A. Lagzda, H. R. Alty, J. Ferrando-Soria, S. Varey, A. K. Kostopoulos, F. Schedin, C. A. Muryn, G. A. Timco, A. Scherer, S. G. Yeates, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 6749; Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 6853. This paper represents a new direction for us, in that we used our molecules as resists for electron-beam lithography. They are remarkably good, and we see performance, particularly in etch selectivity, that is not seen for materials used in the electronics industry. We hope his paper leads to others examining their supramolecules in this context. And we also hope to make a good deal of money as the work is patented! Volume56, Issue41October 2, 2017Pages 12406-12407 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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