Maitre de Conférences Hors Classe , HDR (equivalent to Associate Professor, Habilitation)

Personal Details: Male, Date of birth: 27th November 1966

 

Education:

1989: Professeur certifié physique-chimie : High school teaching certificate:

1994: Professeur agrégé chimie : Special undergraduate teaching certificate:

1996: Doctorat de l'Université (Université Louis Pasteur,  Strasbourg). Equivalent to a PhD.

2010: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse).

 

Work experience:

 Sept. 1989-Sept. 1991: High school teacher in Chemistry and Physics.

 Sept. 1991-Jan. 1993: Research Associated in the group of G. van Koten Utrecht, Netherlands.

 Sept. 1995-Sept. 2000: Professeur Agrégé,  Strasbourg. Undergraduate Assistant Professor

 Oct. 2000-Sept. 2012: Maitre de Conférences, Toulouse. Assistant Professor

 From Oct. 2012: Maitre de Conférences Hors classe, Toulouse. Associate Professor.

 

Associate Professor in the group  "Small molecules activation".

 

Academic Awards:   

  French University Award of Academic Excellence (PES 2009-2013 and 2013-2017 PEDR 2017-2021)

   Specially Appointed Associate Professor, OSAKA University (2016-2017)

Research Interests: Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis, Coordination Chemistry, Hydrogen Storage Small Molecule Activation, DFT calculations.

Publications and Conferences:

* 40 Publications (5 J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2 Angew. Chem.; 1 Acc. Chem. Res.; 3 Chem. Commun.;

8 Organometallics; 4 Inorg. Chem.; 1 Adv. Synth. Cata.; 6 Dalton Trans.; 2 Eur. J. I. C.; 1 Sustainable Energy Fuels; 1 Int. J. Hydrog. Energy;  1 Isr. J. Chem, 1 Tetrahedron Lett.; 1 J. Organomet Chem; 1 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.; 2 Book chapters….

   * 30 lectures as speaker of international conferences or invited seminars

 

 

 

Few references: For a complete list please see: http://organometallics.jimdo.com/publications/

 

1- Transition-Metal-Free Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Polyfluoroarenes by Concerted Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution with a Hydrosilicate

K. Kikushima, M. Grellier, M. Ohashi, S. Ogoshi

    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 16191-16196

 

 

2- Iron-Catalyzed C–H Borylation of Arenes

 T. Dombray, C. G. Werncke, S. Jiang, M. Grellier, L. Vendier, S. Bontemps, J.-B. Sortais, S. Sabo-Etienne, and C. Darce

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 4062–4065.

 

3- Nature of Si–H Interactions in a Series of Ruthenium Silazane Complexes Using Multinuclear Solid-State NMR and Neutron Diffraction

K. A. Smart, M. Grellier, Y. Coppel , L. Vendier, S. A. Mason, S. C. Capelli, A. Albinati , V. Montiel-Palma, M. A. Muñoz-Hernández, and S. Sabo-Etienne,

 Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 1156–1165

 

4- Step-by-Step Introduction of Silazane Moieties at Ruthenium : Different Extents of Ru–H–Si Bond Activation

Katharine A. Smart, Mary Grellier, Laure Vendier, Sax A. Mason, Silvia C. Capelli, Alberto Albinati and Sylviane Sabo-Etienne,

Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52 , 2654–26612-

 

5- Versatile Coordination of 2-Pyridinetetramethyldisilazane at Ruthenium : Ru(II) vs Ru(IV) As Evidenced by NMR, X-ray, Neutron, and DFT Studies

M. Grellier, T. Ayed, J.-C. Barthelat, A. Albinati, S. Mason, L. Vendier, Y. Coppel, and S. Sabo-Etienne

 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7633.