Stefano Crespi
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Synthetic Molecular Chemistry
- E-mail:
- stefano.crespi@kemi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmslaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 523
751 20 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-0279-4903
Short presentation
Stefano is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Organic Photochemistry.
The research in the Crespi group concerns the understanding and controlling of molecular motion at the nanoscale triggered by light.
For more information regarding our research, please check out the Crespi Group website.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 12516-12525, 2026
- DOI for Stereoselective Photocatalytic Crossed [2+2] Cycloadditions to Enantioenriched Polysubstituted Bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes
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Acid- and Nucleophile-Gated Photoisomerization of Phosphaindirubin
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026
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The Nonadiabatic Nature of the Substituent Effects in Azobenzene
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026
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Heterocyclic scaffold-fused dimethoxy-dibenzocyclooctynes for photoactivatable click chemistry
Part of Organic and biomolecular chemistry, p. 120-126, 2026
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Heavier group 15 elements: a new frontier in molecular switch development
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 14241-14253, 2025
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Articles in journal
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 12516-12525, 2026
- DOI for Stereoselective Photocatalytic Crossed [2+2] Cycloadditions to Enantioenriched Polysubstituted Bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes
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Acid- and Nucleophile-Gated Photoisomerization of Phosphaindirubin
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026
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The Nonadiabatic Nature of the Substituent Effects in Azobenzene
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026
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Heterocyclic scaffold-fused dimethoxy-dibenzocyclooctynes for photoactivatable click chemistry
Part of Organic and biomolecular chemistry, p. 120-126, 2026
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Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025
- DOI for Modulation of Lanthanide Luminescence with the Mechanical Bond: Antenna-Emitter Confinement in a Compact [2]Rotaxane
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35(+1) challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2025
Part of Matter, 2025
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Semi-Automated Pipeline for Transition State Search of Molecular Photoswitches
Part of ChemPhotoChem, 2025
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Lighting up dark reactions: An imine network ratchets a coupled equilibrium
Part of Chem, 2025
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Fluorinated Phenylazopyrazoles for Monitoring the Photoisomerization in Complex Systems
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025
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Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025
- DOI for The Effect of Aldehyde and Carboxylic Acid Substitution on the Isomerization of Hemithioindigo Photoswitches
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Substituent effects in N-acetylated phenylazopyrazole photoswitches
Part of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 830-838, 2025
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Reversible Metal-Mediated Molecular Switching of a Phosphaethene Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025
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Tuning the Photoisomerization Mechanism of Oxindole Switches with Electron-Donating Substituents
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry B, p. 3839-3850, 2025
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Computational Study on the Dynamics of a Bis(benzoxazole)-Based Overcrowded Alkene
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 1301-1309, 2025
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Part of Science Advances, 2025
- DOI for General strategy for boosting the performance of speed-tunable rotary molecular motors with visible light
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Probing the Hidden Photoisomerization of a Symmetric Phosphaalkene Switch
Part of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2025
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Synthesis and characterization of cis-bisdiphenylphosphinoethene gold(I) complexes
Part of Comptes rendus. Chimie, p. 113-123, 2024
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Detour to success: photoswitching via indirect excitation
Part of Chemical Science, p. 11684-11698, 2024
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All-visible-light-driven stiff-stilbene photoswitches
Part of Chemical Science, p. 6763-6769, 2024
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Modulation of the isomerization of iminothioindoxyl switches by supramolecular confinement
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 9388-9391, 2024
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Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 1330-1338, 2024
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Photocatalytic Oxidative Activation of Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes for Formal [2σ+2π] Cycloadditions
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 13987-13998, 2024
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A fiber-optic spectroscopic setup for isomerization quantum yield determination
Part of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 1684-1692, 2024
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Synthesis of Styrylbenzazole Photoswitches and Evaluation of their Photochemical Properties
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2024
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Meta-Ortho Effect on the Excited State Pathways of Chloroanilines
Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024
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A dinuclear copper(ii) complex with photoswitchable catechol oxidation activity
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 948-951, 2023
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Highly Efficient Oxindole-Based Molecular Photoswitches
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2023
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Activating a light-driven molecular motor by metal complexation
Part of Chem, 2023
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Light-Fueled Transformations of a Dynamic Cage-Based Molecular System
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023
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A visible-light-driven molecular motor based on barbituric acid
Part of Chemical Science, p. 8458-8465, 2023
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Replacing the BO in BODIPY: unlocking the path to SBDIPY and BIDIPY chromophores
Part of Chemical Science, p. 6579-6584, 2023
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Designing P-type bi-stable overcrowded alkene-based chiroptical photoswitches
Part of Chemical Science, p. 4328-4336, 2023
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Computational study on the reduction and solvolysis of triplet chlorobenzenes
Part of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2023
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Peptide Conjugated Dihydroazulene/Vinylheptafulvene Photoswitches in Aqueous Environment
Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 3543-3549, 2022
- DOI for Photocatalysis in Aqueous Micellar Media Enables Divergent C-H Arylation and N-Dealkylation of Benzamides
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Controlling forward and backward rotary molecular motion on demand
Part of Nature Communications, 2022
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Dual-function artificial molecular motors performing rotation and photoluminescence
Part of Science Advances, 2022
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The Influence of Strain on the Rotation of an Artificial Molecular Motor
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022
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Visible Light-Enhanced C-H Amination of Cyclic Ethers with Iminoiodinanes
Part of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, p. 4061-4068, 2022
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Part of Nature Communications, 2022
- DOI for Synergistic interplay between photoisomerization and photoluminescence in a light-driven rotary molecular motor
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Mechanistic Insight into Supramolecular Polymerization in Water Tunable by Molecular Geometry
Part of CCS Chemistry, p. 2212-2220, 2022
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Articles, review/survey
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Heavier group 15 elements: a new frontier in molecular switch development
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 14241-14253, 2025
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