This monday july 17th 2023, Lucile presented her work on polyethylene deconstruction at the PPM progress meeting at the ICMCB

This thursday, June 22nd we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Richmond Sarpong from the University of Berkeley (USA) in the frame of the INC Ambassador’s program. Richmond presented an enlightening lecture, entitled : “Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products “.

We wish to thank the CNRS for allowing the visit of Prof. Sarpong to our institute. 

M. Ibra Sambou from the Ecole nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM) joins us for a 6 months training period. 
Welcome Ibra !

On thursday May 25th, we organized the first PPM thematic day on “Future trends in light-driven processes” at the Domaine du Haut-Carré (Auditorium de l’Agora), with plenary lectures by Dr. M. Chavarot-Kerlidou (CEA Grenoble), Prof. Burkhard Koenig (University of Regensburg, D) and Prof. M. Robert (University Paris-Cité). Three communications were also proposed by Dr. L. Bouffier (ISM, NSYSA, UB), Dr. J.M. Vincent (ISM, NEO, UB) and Dr. J. -P. Delville (LOMA, UB) and PhD students (A. Doussot, S. Liu and E. Layan).

Our article on “Thiochromane Formation via Visible-Light Mediated Intramolecular d–C(sp³)-H Bond Arylation of Sulfonamides” has been accepted in Organic Letters.

Congratulations to Shuai and Nivesh for their work.

Cong Dai Bui joins us as a master 2 student on a project in collaboration with the team of Prof. H. Cramail (LCPO, University of Bordeaux) in the frame of the PPM research program. 

Welcome Dai !

Our article on “PIDA-mediated Oxidative Decarboxylation of Oxamic Acids. The Role of Radical Acidity Enhancement” has been accepted in Chemistry, A European Journal

Congratulations to Martin, Gülbin and Margaux for their work. Thank you to Prof. Carlos Silva Lopez of the University of Vigo (E) for the collaboration and fruitful discussions.

Our paper on the “O-Methyl-N-Nitroisourea as a NCO Surrogate in Cu-Catalyzed Alkane C-H isocyanation. A Masked Isocyanate Strategy” has been released as a preprint in ChemRixv.

Congratulations Jonathan for this nice work !

The “Handbook of C-H Functionalization” (ISBN: 9783527834242) edited by Prof. Debabrata Maiti in Wiley has been released. Our chapter on “Copper Mediated Free-radical C(sp3)-H Functionalization” has been added and can be consulted on Wiley online Library.