Book description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the use
of water as a solvent for metal catalysis, illustrating the enormous
potential of water in developing new catalytic transformations for fine
chemicals synthesis, while reducing environmental impact.
Pierre H. Dixneuf is professor of chemistry at the University of
Rennes, now Emeritus Professor. He has created a team on Organometallic
Chemistry and Catalysis, and in 2000 he founded the Research Institute
of Chemistry of Rennes. He has developed successively several processes
in ruthenium catalysed reactions: transformations of alkynes,
incorporation of CO2, ruthenium-vinylidenes and ?allenylidenes in
catalysis, catalytic synthesis of heterocycles, alkene metahesis
catalysts and applications, C-H bond activation including in water. He
has designed many new ruthenium catalysts especially involving
metal-carbene bond. He has published more than 380 papers, edited 2
books and owns 5 patents. He is a member of Institute Universitaire de
France (IUF) since 2000. He has been awarded several prizes: A. v
Humboldt (2000), Le Bel (2000), Grignard-Wittig (2001), Sacconi medal
(2006), Prix IFP of Academie des Sciences (2006). He was deputy director
of CNRS-Chemistry (96-99).
Victorio Cadierno studied chemistry at the University of Oviedo and
obtained his PhD degree in 1996 working under the supervision of Prof.
J. Gimeno (University of Oviedo). He then joined the group of Prof. J.
P. Majoral at the LCC-CNRS (Toulouse, France) for a two-year
postdoctoral stay. Thereafter, he returned to the University of Oviedo
where he is currently Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. In
2002 he was awarded with the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
Young Investigator Award. His current research interests cover the
development of catalytic transformations in green reaction media, being
co-author of more than 110 publications, including 20 on novel catalytic
reactions in water.
