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Head of the research group

David SÉMERIL
Chargé de Recherche au CNRS

Year of creation of the group - 2018 (formerly LCIMC headed by D. Matt)

Location

Le bel Institute, 9th floor South

Secretarial and accounting services provided by

Agnès REIFFSTECK
email : reiffste@unistra.fr
Phone : +33 (0)3 68 85 14 32

Permanent members

Non-permanent members

PhD students

• Maxime Steinmetz
• Robin Heinrich (shared with LASYROC)

• Neslihan Sahin

Description of the research group

We are interested in the development of constrained ligands, with a particular emphasis upon the synthesis of cavity-shaped ligands, for organometallic catalysis and green chemistry catalysis.

Our team welcomes internship applications at the Master level, potential candidates interested in PhD studies as well as post-doctoral candidates.

Recent results

Encapsulated Neutral Ruthenium Catalyst for Substrate- Selective Oxidation of Alcohols

Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202201887

Evaluation of the Catalytic Capability of cis‐ and trans‐Diquinoxaline Spanned Cavitands

EurJOC, first published: 3 September 2019

Chiral calixarene and resorcinarene derivatives. Conical cavities substituted at their upper rim by two phosphito units and their use as ligands in Rh-catalysed hydroformylation

Catal. Commun., 118 (2019),70-75 

Cavitand chemistry: nickel half-sandwich complexes with imidazolylidene ligands bearing one or two resorcinarenyl substituents

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 890-896

Substrate-selective olefin hydrogenation with a cavitand-based bis-N-anisyl-iminophosphorane

Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 70-76

Cavitand chemistry: towards metallo-capsular catalysts

Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 313-323

Research topics

• Synthesis of constrained ligands
• Design and synthesis of phosphines / phosphites
• Design and synthesis of bulky N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs)
• Synthesis of optically pure ligand
• Chemical modification of calix[4]arene and resorcin[4]arene
• Metallo-cavitands
• Homogeneous catalysis
• Hydroformylation
• Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions (Suzuki-Miyaura, Heck, ...)
• Ethylene oligomerisation / polymerisation
• Hydrogenation of olefins
• Asymmetric Catalysis with transition metals

Selected publications

S. Hkiri, M. Steinmetz, R. Schurhammer, and D. Sémeril
Encapsulated Neutral Ruthenium Catalyst for Substrate- Selective Oxidation of Alcohols
Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202201887 – DOI : org/10.1002/chem.202201887

S. Hkiri, S. Touil, A. Samarat, D. Sémeril
Functionalized-1,3,4-oxadiazole ligands for the ruthenium-catalyzed Lemieux-Johnson type oxidation of olefins and alkynes in water
Molecular Catalysis 517 (2022) 112014 – DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2021.112014

S. Hkiri and D. Sémeril
How Do Positions of Phosphito Units on a Calix[4]Arene Platform Affect the Enantioselectivity of a Catalytic Reaction?
Organics 2022, 3, 470–480 – DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/org3040030

M. Kaloğlu, N. Gürbüz, D. Sémeril, İ. Özdemir
Ruthenium(II)-(p-cymene)-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes for the N-Alkylation of Amine Using the Green Hydrogen Borrowing Methodology
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2018) 1236-1243

M. Teci, D. Hueber, P. Pale, L. Toupet, A. Blanc, E. Brenner, D. Matt
Metal Confinement through N-(9-Alkyl)fluorenyl Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and its Consequences in Gold-Catalysed Reactions Involving Enynes
Chemistry, Eur. J. (2017) 7809-7818

F. Elaieb, D. Sémeril, D. Matt, M. Pfeffer, P.-A. Bouit, M. Hissler, C. Gourlaouen, J. Harrowfield
Calix[4]arene-fused phospholes
Dalton Trans. (2017) 9833-9845

L. Monnerau, D. Sémeril, D. Matt, C. Gourlaouen
Catalytic behaviour of calixarenylphosphanes in nickel-catalysed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2017) 581-586

T. S. Manikandan, R. Ramesh, D. Sémeril
Synthesis and characterisation of cycloruthenated benzhydrazone complexes: Catalytic application to selective oxidative cleavage of olefins to aldehydes
RSC Advances 6 (2016) 97107-97115

T. Chavagnan, D. Sémeril, D. Matt, J. Harrowfield, L. Toupet
Cracking Cavitands: Metal-Directed Scission of Phosphinyl-Substituted Resorcinarenes
Chem. Eur. J. 21 (2015) 6678-6681

D. Sémeril, D. Matt
Synthesis and catalytic relevance of P(III) and P(V)-functionalised calixarenes and resorcinarenes (Review)
Coord. Chem. Rev. 279 (2014) 58-95

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