David A. Leigh

David A. Leigh

Manchester University

H-index: 100

North America-United States

About David A. Leigh

David A. Leigh, With an exceptional h-index of 100 and a recent h-index of 56 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Manchester University, specializes in the field of molecular machines, chemical topology, supramolecular chemistry, organic chemistry, nanotechnology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Macroscopic spiral rotation of microscopic objects induced by nanoscale rotaxane dynamics

Ratcheting synthesis

Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction

Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor

Endergonic synthesis driven by chemical fuelling

Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch

Stepwise Operation of a Molecular Rotary Motor Driven by an Appel Reaction

Mechanical scission of a knotted polymer

David A. Leigh Information

University

Position

School of Chemistry UK

Citations(all)

37118

Citations(since 2020)

12608

Cited By

29703

hIndex(all)

100

hIndex(since 2020)

56

i10Index(all)

277

i10Index(since 2020)

187

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Manchester University

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David A. Leigh Skills & Research Interests

molecular machines

chemical topology

supramolecular chemistry

organic chemistry

nanotechnology

Top articles of David A. Leigh

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Macroscopic spiral rotation of microscopic objects induced by nanoscale rotaxane dynamics

Chem

Alexander Ryabchun

Romain Jamagne

Javier Echavarren

Manee Patanapongpibul

Liang Zhang

...

2024/4/11

Ratcheting synthesis

Stefan Borsley

James M Gallagher

David A Leigh

Benjamin MW Roberts

2024/1

Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction

Angewandte Chemie

Stefan Borsley

David Leigh

Benjamin MW Roberts

2024

Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor

Chem

James M Gallagher

Benjamin MW Roberts

Stefan Borsley

David A Leigh

2024/3/14

Endergonic synthesis driven by chemical fuelling

Nature Synthesis

Enzo Olivieri

James M Gallagher

Alexander Betts

Toufic W Mrad

David A Leigh

2024/3/11

Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch

Angewandte Chemie

Sujun Chen

Nathalie Katsonis

David A Leigh

Manee Patanapongpibul

Alexander Ryabchun

...

2024/4/24

Stepwise Operation of a Molecular Rotary Motor Driven by an Appel Reaction

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Patrick Zwick

Axel Troncossi

Stefan Borsley

Iñigo J Vitorica-Yrezabal

David A Leigh

2024/2/6

Mechanical scission of a knotted polymer

Nature Chemistry

Min Zhang

Robert Nixon

Fredrik Schaufelberger

Lucian Pirvu

Guillaume De Bo

...

2024/4/22

Non-equilibrium Structure and Dynamics: Giving Chemistry Direction

David A Leigh

2024

Compact rotaxane superbases

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Martin J Power

David TJ Morris

Iñigo J Vitorica-Yrezabal

David A Leigh

2023/4/11

Switched “On” Transient Fluorescence Output from a Pulsed-Fuel Molecular Ratchet

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Andrei S Baluna

Marcel Dommaschk

Burkhard Groh

Salma Kassem

David A Leigh

...

2023/12/4

Mechanical tightening of a synthetic molecular knot

Chem

Matteo Calvaresi

Anne-Sophie Duwez

David A Leigh

Damien Sluysmans

Yiwei Song

...

2023/1/12

Single-Molecule Studies on Artificial Small-Molecule Machines

Zhi-Hui Zhang

Hai-Na Feng

Guanyu Chi

David A Leigh

Liang Zhang

2023/11/1

Dynamically accelerated catalysis through conformational selection by a molecular motor

Chem

James Gallagher

Benjamin Roberts

Stefan Borsley

David Leigh

2023/10/31

The role of kinetic asymmetry and power strokes in an information ratchet

Chem

Lorna Binks

Stefan Borsley

Todd R Gingrich

David A Leigh

Emanuele Penocchio

...

2023/10/12

In search of Wasserman’s Catenane

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Andrei S Baluna

Albano Galan

David A Leigh

Gareth D Smith

Justin TJ Spence

...

2023/4/25

Social Self-Sorting Synthesis of Molecular Knots

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Zoe Ashbridge

Olivia M Knapp

Elisabeth Kreidt

David A Leigh

Lucian Pirvu

...

2022/9/6

Autonomous fuelled directional rotation about a covalent single bond

Nature

Stefan Borsley

Elisabeth Kreidt

David A Leigh

Benjamin MW Roberts

2022/4/7

Transamidation-driven molecular pumps

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Lorna Binks

Chong Tian

Stephen DP Fielden

Iñigo J Vitorica-Yrezabal

David A Leigh

2022/8/18

Vernier template synthesis of molecular knots

Science

Zoe Ashbridge

Elisabeth Kreidt

Lucian Pirvu

Fredrik Schaufelberger

Joakim Halldin Stenlid

...

2022/3/4

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