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Program XLII Congress of the Organometallic Chemistry Specialized Group (GEQO)
Nicolas Mezailles
Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Nicolas Mézailles was trained in chemistry and chemical engineering at Ecole Nationale de Chimie de Toulouse, France (1992), and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University (USA, with Prof. C. P. Kubiak) in 1997. After a post doc in the laboratory of prof. F. Mathey at the Ecole Polytechnique, working with prof. P. Le Floch, he was recruited by the CNRS in the same laboratory (UMR 7653) in 1998. He was promoted Research Director 2nd class (DR2) in 2008. In 2012, he joined the “Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée” (UMR 5069), creating the “SHEN” team (Systèmes de hautes énergies), and was promoted DR1 in 2017. In recent years, N. Mézailles has been interested in the chemistry of carbene complexes obtained from geminal dianions; the synthesis of metal and metal phosphides nanoparticles; as well as the study of N2 reduction by designed transition metal complexes. He co-authored ca 160 articles, and 8 patents.
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