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Place of Birth: Versailles, Île-de-France, France
About Didier Astruc
- Didier Astruc (born 9 June 1946 in Versailles) carried out his studies in chemistry in Rennes.
- After a Ph.
- D.
- with professor R.
- Dabard in organometallic chemistry, he did post-doctoral studies with professor R.
- R.
- Schrock (2005 Nobel Laureate) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the U.S.
- and later a sabbatical year with professor K.
- P.
- C.
- Vollhardt at the University of California at Berkeley.
- He became a CNRS Director of research in Rennes, then in 1983 full Professor of Chemistry at the University Bordeaux 1.
- He is known for his work on “Electron-Reservoir” complexes and dendritic molecular batteries, catalytic processes (olefin metathesis, C-C coupling, catalysis in water) using nanoreactors and molecular recognition using gold nanoparticles and metallodendrimers.
- He is the author of three books, scientific publications and the editor of five books or special issues.
- He has been a member of the National CNRS committee from 2000 to 2008 and the President of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the Société Française de Chimie from 2000 to 2004.
- Didier Astruc is on the Thompson-Reuters list of the top 100 chemists who have achieved the highest citation impact scores for their chemistry papers published between 2000 and 2010.
- and on the list of the Highest Cited Researchers 2015 and 2016 (Thomson-Reuters).
- and 2017(Clarivate Analytics)
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