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Guillaume De Bo
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Mechanochemist and Molecular Machinist. Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester.🇧🇪 in 🇬🇧.
Our recent papers are now published back to back in issue 37 of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social supported by a front cover designed by @drawimpacts.bsky.social

#chemsky #openaccess

Read the papers here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Congratulations to Rob who won the ACS @pubs.acs.org poster prize at the Macro group UK annual conference!
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September 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Can I flip it? Yes you can!

Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force!

An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social !

Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485

#chemsky
August 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are delighted to see our recent work highlighted on the front cover of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social !

Great collaboration with Emma Vidal from @drawimpacts.bsky.social !

Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
July 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Dual release with a bit of logic!

We show the release of a double cargo payload with 2 stimuli, force and water, with an AND gate mechanism.

Great work from Lei Chen, now available in #openaccess as a #HotPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#chemsky
July 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I had a great time at the MBB Symposium in Brussels last week. Great to be back home to meet old and new friends. Congratulations to Charles-André Fustin and team for a successful meeting in the beautiful Palais des Academies!
March 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Last month I had a great time interacting with staff and students of IUCINQUIMA at the University of Valladolid @uva-es.bsky.social to talk and teach about polymer mechanochemistry! Many thanks to @hectorbarbero.bsky.social for the invitation and for the culinary tour of Valladolid! #chemsky
March 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📣 Fancy stretching molecules? Come and join our group at The University of Manchester @official-uom.bsky.social.

We have several PhD studentships available in
synthetic and
synthetic/computational mechanochemistry 📣

Check our vacancies page:
www.deboresearchgroup.com/joins-us---v...
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Proud of Danny who successfully defended his thesis today 🍾 Many thanks to Alyssa Avestro and Igor Larrosa for the close examination!
January 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
January 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Congratulations to Rob for winning the Supramolecular Chemistry poster prize 🏆 and Lei for being highly commended for the PhD thesis award. 🥳 #masc24
December 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM
The University of Manchester, making an impact since 1824 !

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to celebrate our university's 200th anniversary mechanochemically 🔨

@official-uom.bsky.social purple and gold colours are revealed by the impact of a hammer on a mechanochromic elastomer. #UoM200
December 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Easy way to find the standing wave max indeed!
See below from Sonochemistry OUP primer by T Mason.
November 19, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Carps in pond, pulling strong, broken bonds.

A beautiful watercolour by Qianqian Cheng highlights her recent paper on the back cover of Chemical Science!

Cover: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Read the paper here:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
August 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM
The BCB mechanophore pulls a new trick with the mechanochemical generation of aryne!

Great work by Qianqian Cheng now in Chemical Science, who made a beautiful watercolour to illustrate the paper.

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
August 15, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Many congratulations to Lei who brilliantly defended his thesis in front of Steve Goldup and Igor Larrosa!
Lei is the 5th PhD student to graduate from the group and we now have the pleasure to welcome Dr Chen as a postdoc.
December 7, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Hi, I'm Guillaume. I'm an organic chemist at the University of Manchester. My team and I stretch molecules to see how they break or react under tension.
September 27, 2023 at 2:07 PM