| Description | David Leigh is the world's foremost pioneer of the design adn synthesis of artificial molecular motors from first principles. His outstanding body of work on the hydrogen bond-mediated assembly of catenanes and rotaxanes, and his seminal studies on controlled directional submolecular motion, has been a key driving force behind the emergence over the last decade of the field of synthetic molecular machine systems. He has introduced numerous important, innovative and influential concepts for the synthesis of complex molecular, supramolecular and mechanically bonded architectures, pioneereed the control of molecular-level motion, and created and demonstrated soem of the very first examples of functional synthetic molecular machines. |