RESEARCH AREAS:

Fundamental and applied molecular chemistry, creation of new chemical bonds (metal-metal), of new complex molecules, elaboration of concepts rationalizing structure-reactivity relationships, applications in homogeneous catalysis (ethylene oligomerization, cooligomerization olefins/CO and ethylene/polar olefins, transfer hydrogenation of ketones, alkane activation, deshydrogenative coupling of stannanes), nanomaterials from molecular precursors, applications in heterogeneous catalysis (carbonylation of organic nitro derivatives to isocyanates)
Synthesis et complexation of polytopic functional ligands
New organic molecules with delocalized π system (quinonoids)
Chemistry of functional enolates and their metal complexes (synthesis, characterization, reactivity, catalysis)
Synthesis and reactivity of bimetallic silyl complexes (new molecular interactions and catalysis)
Molecular clusters (concepts, synthesis, structures, reactivity, catalysis)