Interested

• catalysis
• physical chemistry
• ruthenium
• grubbs catalyst
• olefin metathesis
• polymerization
• ring opening metathesis polymerization
• alkynes
• dimerization
• cyclization

Scientific discipline

• chemical sciences

Latest publications

• Why does an obligate autogamous orchid produce insect attractants in nectar? - a case study on Epipactis albensis (Orchidaceae)
• Biological invasions threaten crops: Alien Himalayan balsam lures and co-opts floral visitors away from cultivated cherry tomatoes
• Chemical Insect Attractants Produced by Flowers of Impatiens spp. (Balsaminaceae) and List of Floral Visitors
• Dimerization of aryl alkynes by Grubbs-Hoveyda complex: investigation of factors affecting the efficiency of the process based on experimental and theoretical approaches
• Dimerization and cyclotrimerization of terminal arylalkynes initiated by a phosphine-free ruthenium alkylidene complex.
• Ruthenium Complexes with a Tridentate Anionic Bisfluoroalkoxy‐Carbene Ligand – Valuable Latent Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for Polymerisation Reactions
• Rational and then serendipitous formation of aza analogues of Hoveyda-type catalysts containing a chelating ester group leading to a polymerization catalyst family.
• Terminal-alkyne-induced decomposition of a phosphine-free ruthenium alkylidene catalyst.
• A partially serendipitous discovery of thermo-switchable ruthenium olefin metathesis initiator that seem to be well suited for ROMP of monomers bearing vinyl pendant groups.
• Unusual product formation in tungsten(0)-catalysed reactions of propargylic alcohols and secondary amines : hydroamination and the construction of the tetrahydrofuran ring.