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报告题目：DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE METHODS. SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS
报告时间：2026-05-15 10:00
报告人： Prof. Janine Cossy
ESPCI Paris (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris), Paris (France)
报告地点：卢嘉锡楼202报告厅
转播地点：翔安校区能源材料大楼3号楼会议室2，漳州校区生化主楼307教室
报告摘要：
The main challenge in the synthesis of interesting biologically active molecules is the design of concise strategies and the use of efficient and chemoselective methods.
We will show that the development of methods using cheap transition metal catalysts such as cobalt, nickel and copper, can solve the synthetic problems encountered during the synthesis of complex bioactive molecules. An alternative to transition metals appears to be thermal reactions that can produce complex molecules from simple starting materials in a very chemo- regio- and stereoselective way.
报告人简介：
Janine Cossy did her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University Champagne- Ardenne in Reims (France), working on photochemistry under the supervision of Prof. J.- P. Pète. After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. B. M. Trost at the University of Wisconsin (USA), she came back to Reims as CNRS Associate Researcher. In 1990, she was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at the ESPCI in Paris. Janine Cossy’s research interests focus on the synthesis of natural products and biologically active molecules (mainly with antitumoral and anti-inflammatory properties) and on the development of synthetic methods (enantioselective reactions, rearrangements, organometallics, biocatalysis, … ) She is also interested in the vectorisation of antitumoral compounds toward the tumor in order to decrease their secondary effects.
Her research efforts have resulted in more than 575 publications and 19 patents. Among the awards, she received: the CNRS Silver Medal (France, 1996), the UK Royal Society Rosalyn Franklin International Lecturership awarded to internationally recognized women scientists (UK, 2005); the IUPAC 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering (2019), the Lavoisier Medal from the French Chemical Society (2024). She is a member of Academia Europeae (2012), a member of the French Academy of sciences (2017) a member of the National Academy of Pharmacy (2022) and a member of the European Academy of sciences (2026) . In addition, she was nominated Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 1997 and promoted to Officier in 2018. In 2013, she was nominated Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur and promoted to Officier in 2023. She was Organic Letters Associate Editor for 14 years and since 2023 she is Tetrahedron Associate Editor, and Molecular Chemistry, Associate Editor since 2025.
She is the co-funder of two companies: CDP-Innovation and Acanthe Biotech.
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