Professor Hideki Yorimitsu from Kyoto University, has been visiting us over the last two days in the frame of the CNRS Ambassador program.

Thank you to the CNRS for supporting these visits, and to Dr Christophe Bour for organising the entire visit.

Professor Yorimitsu’s lecture on ‘aromatic metamorphosis’ is a fine example of the shift in heterocyclic synthesis, which is now focused on transforming the skeletons of common heterocycles such as furans, benzofurans and carbazoles into new heterocycles containing Si, P, B, as well as metals such as titanium, a field in which he is one of the pioneers

Many thanks to Hideki for the beautiful lecture, the fruitful discussions with all our colleagues at the ISM and the good time spent with us tasting some Bordeaux wine !

The article relative to our studies in collaboration with the team of Prof. H. Cramail and Dr. T. Vidil at LCPO on “Bio-sourced polyurethane foams through oxidative decarboxylation of oxamic acids under off-stoichiometric conditions” has been accepted for publication in European Polymer Journal.

This work received government funding administered by the ANR under the Plan de Relance 2030, reference number ANR-21-EXES-0004

Congratulations Rania for this nice work.

Dr. Quentin Stembauer, former PhD at the University of Bordeaux joined us as a post-doctoral fellow in the frame of the GPR “Post-Petroleum Materials” in collaboration with the team of Dr. Aline Rougier (ICMCB).

Welcome Quentin !

An inspiring week at ISOFR-14 in Bologna. Younes Massad presented his work at the conference on the photocatalysed oxidation of oximes and the generation of nitrogen-containing heterocycles.

Here is the team in 2026 !

Dr. Federica Tufano of the University of Salerno joined us as a post-doctoral fellow in the frame of the GPR “Post-Petroleum Materials” in collaboration with the team of Prof. H. Cramail (LCPO).

Welcome Federica !

Our article on “H-bond mediated photocatalyzed oxidation of oximes under visible light and air. A general route toward dioxazoles, oxadiazoles and isoxazoles” has been accepted for publication in Green Chem.

Congratulations Younes for this hard work !!

Our work recently published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. on “Selective, Oxygen-Tunable, and Metal-Free Functionalization of Polyethylene Through Dual-Mode Nitrosation and Carbonylation“ was highlighted by the CNRS

Our article in collaboration with the team of Prof. D. Taton (LCPO (UB) entitled: “Selective, Oxygen-Tunable and Metal-Free Functionalization of Polyethylene Through Dual-Mode Nitrosation and Carbonylation“ has been accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 

Mr. Maxime Sergent of the Ecole Européenne d’Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux (Nancy) joins us as a PhD student funded by the ANR, in collaboration with the group of Prof D. Taton (LCPO, University of Bordeaux).