Nobel Prize winner in 2016 for Chemistry, Sir James Fraser Stoddart at ICS 20

The guest of honor, Sir James Fraser Stoddart, who has dedicated his life to Science and in part to synthesizing new advanced materials based on cyclodextrins gave a plenary lecture at the 20th International Cyclodextrin Symposium.

In 2016, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. He has developed rotaxane and molecular shuttle.

Sir J.F. Stoddart was identified as one of the most-cited chemists. In June 2022 he had as much as 134683 citations (h index 178), 37270 since 2017 (Google Scholar, accessed on 20 June 2022) with 4 papers of over 2000 citations:

• Self‐assembly in natural and unnatural systems (Angew. Chemie [2], No. of citations: 2570)
• Artificial molecular machines (Angew. Chemie [3], No. of citations: 2473)
• Dynamic covalent chemistry (Angew. Chemie [4], No. of citations: 2328)
• Electronically configurable molecular-based logic gates (Science [5], No. of citations: 2173)

In his lecture he gave an overview on preparation of interlocked systems, stimuli-responsive molecular devices and molecular machines with CDs, (edible) metal organic frameworks, ecofriendly gold mining with CD and other important and interesting findings of his team.

1. Odell, B.; Reddington, M.V.; Slawin, A.M.Z.; Spencer, N.; Stoddart, J.F.; Williams, D J. Cyclobis(paraquat-P-phenylene). A tetracationic multipurpose receptor. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1988, 27(11), 1547–1550
2. Philip, D.; Stoddart, J.F. Self‐assembly in natural and unnatural systems. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1996, 35 (11), 1154-1196
3. Balzani, V.; Credi, A.; Raymo, F.M.; Stoddart, J.F. Artificial molecular machines. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39 (19), 3348-3391
4. SJ Rowan, SJ Cantrill, GRL Cousins, JKM Sanders, JF Stoddart Dynamic covalent chemistry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 41 (6), 898-952
5. Collier, C.P.; Wong, E.W.; Belohradský, M.; Raymo, F.M.; Stoddart, J.F.; Kuekes, P.J. Electronically configurable molecular-based logic gates. Science 1999, 285 (5426), 391-394