Background
- 2022 Promotion to Full professor
- 2015 Habilitation (HDR, Associate professor).
- 2007 Nomination as “Maître de Conférences” (Assistant professor) at Aix-Marseille University with Pr. Jean Rodriguez.
- 2006/2007 Post-doctoral position at the university of de Bristol (UK, with Pr. V. K. Aggarwal). Palladium catalyzed synthesis of pyrrolidines from vinyl aziridines : application to the synthesis of allo-kaïnic acid.
- 2003/2006 Ph.D. at the « Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) » in Gif-sur-Yvette in the group of Dr. Jieping Zhu. AstraZeneca fellowship.
- 1999/2003 Engineering school (CPE Lyon).
- 1997/1999 DUT Chimie (Saint-Avold).
Teaching
Master degree : Lectures, practical chemistry exercises and tutorial courses in organic chemistry and retrosynthetic analysis.
Licence degree (MSc) : Lectures, tutorial courses and practical chemistry exercises in organic chemistry.
Research
Enantioselective organocatalysis ; Multiple Bond-Forming Transformations ; Domino reactions ; Axial chirality ; Helical chirality ; medium-sized rings
Selected publications
- Enantioselective Syntheses of Furan Atropisomers by an Oxidative Central-to-Axial Chirality Conversion Strategy, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 2140-2143.
- Simultaneous Control of Central and Helical Chiralities: Expedient Helicoselective Synthesis of Dioxa[6]helicenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 16199–16204
Padlocking dihydrofurannulation for the control of small degree of helicity built on a fused-tetracyclic core, Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 7300–7307
Enantioenriched Methylene-Bridged Benzazocanes Synthesis by Organocatalytic and Superacid Activations, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1279–1285
Collaborations
- Pr. Sébastien Thibaudeau, Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers, University of Poitiers.
- Dr. Fabien Robert-Peillard, LCE, Marseille
- Dr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król, Universität Würzburg, Germany
- Dr. Xiaoze Bao, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Adminstrative responsibilities
- 01/2024- : Group leader of stereO team
- 2021-2024 : Treasurer of the board of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society
- 2018-2021 : member of the board of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society
Awards - Honors
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10/2024- Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University of Technology
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2024 Junior distinguished member of the French Chemical Society
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2021 Guy Ourisson award from GECO congress.