{"title":"J. Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024) Nobel laureate for molecular machines—author in Structural Chemistry","authors":"Istvan Hargittai","doi":"10.1007/s11224-025-02481-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a 1999 article of <i>Structural Chemistry</i>, the recently deceased J. Fraser Stoddart and two associates surveyed the interplay between the synthesis of functioning supramolecular systems and their X-ray crystallographic investigation. Furthermore, they charted the anticipated development and necessary work for creating “intelligent” materials with predetermined functions. This was part of Stoddart’s discoveries in creating molecular machines that brought him a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize in 2016.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":780,"journal":{"name":"Structural Chemistry","volume":"36 3","pages":"1135 - 1137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11224-025-02481-y","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In a 1999 article of Structural Chemistry, the recently deceased J. Fraser Stoddart and two associates surveyed the interplay between the synthesis of functioning supramolecular systems and their X-ray crystallographic investigation. Furthermore, they charted the anticipated development and necessary work for creating “intelligent” materials with predetermined functions. This was part of Stoddart’s discoveries in creating molecular machines that brought him a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize in 2016.
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Structural Chemistry is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers that cover the condensed and gaseous states of matter and involve numerous techniques for the determination of structure and energetics, their results, and the conclusions derived from these studies. The journal overcomes the unnatural separation in the current literature among the areas of structure determination, energetics, and applications, as well as builds a bridge to other chemical disciplines. Ist comprehensive coverage encompasses broad discussion of results, observation of relationships among various properties, and the description and application of structure and energy information in all domains of chemistry.
We welcome the broadest range of accounts of research in structural chemistry involving the discussion of methodologies and structures,experimental, theoretical, and computational, and their combinations. We encourage discussions of structural information collected for their chemicaland biological significance.