Department Organic Synthesis and Catalysis

The main objective of the Department of Exploratory Chemistry in Organic Synthesis and Catalysis (CESOC) is to conduct fundamental research in organic synthesis, upstream of any potential application, but nevertheless strongly inspired by these applications and their impact on society. The CESOC department covers several main themes with four priority research axes:
- the development of new methodologies and innovative synthetic tools,
- the discovery of new reactions or reaction sequences that are always more efficient and less expensive in energy,
- the development of original and ever more effective chemo and stereoselective reagents and catalysts in a context of eco-compatible chemistries,
- finally, a last axis which consists in the valorisation of these new methodologies and new tools in the synthesis of natural and / or biologically active products.
This fourth priority axi is transversal and results in enriching exchanges and makes it possible to concretize collaborations with the other departments of the ICSN, Natural Substances, Chemical Biology and obviously the Department Structural and Analytical Chemistry and Biochemistry, thus benefiting from the most modern analytical, crystallographic and theoretical tools for the characterization of complex products and the in-depth study of reaction mechanisms.

• Mrs Géraldine MASSON