Research in the TuttleLab is focused on the concept of reducing molecular search spaces. The reduction of molecular search spaces involves the use of computational methodology to inform, focus and drive the direction of molecular research. The group works in close collaboration with experimental colleagues to ensure the results from our design work are able to be directly implemented in a practical laboratory. The process of reducing molecular search spaces involves three phases: (1) rationalising and understanding existing systems; (2) isolating the governing molecular processes; and (3) predicting new systems with enhanced/desirable properties and reactivities. A variety of different methods are used in pursuit of this goal, including ab initio, DFT, semi-empirical, MM, coarse grain and hybrid QM/MM methodologies.

News From the Lab

Secondment at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Ivan and Ines are doing their PhD as part of a European Initial Training Network (Marie Curie Actions) called SMARTNET (Soft Materials Advanced Training NETwork). Within the SMARTNET they collaborate with five academic and two industrial partners from UK, the Netherlands, France and Spain. The aim is to improve the training of early state researchers […]

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Welcome to new TuttleLab members – 2014

Welcome to new PhD student Mark Allison, who joins the group under the joint supervision of John Murphy. Mark’s project will use a combination of computational theory and experimental work to assist in the development of novel organic super electron donors. We also welcome our new final year students Emma Matthews and Robbie Campbell, who will both […]

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Work on VCPR highlighted as a HOT paper in CEJ

Recent work with the Percy group has been flagged up in Chemistry – A European Journal as a Hot paper. We’re proud of all of our projects and think they’re all worth while – but it’s nice to know that others agree sometimes as well. To read about the origins of the stereospecificty in vinylcyclopropane rearrangements (VCPR), follow this link… […]

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TuttleLab Organises the Annual MGMS

The 2014 meeting of the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society was organised by Tell Tuttle, Hans Martin Senn and David Cheung at the University of Strathclyde. The theme of the meeting was “Modelling Molecules and Materials” and it was very well attended. We were happy to be able to raise sponsorship from a variety of industry […]

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