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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
103
Citations
37159
World Ranking
1114
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2018 - Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal), Société chimique de France,
  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2007 - Luigi Galvani Medal, Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica Italiana)
  • 2007 - Faraday Medal, Electrochemistry Group, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2006 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Christian Amatore is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and specializes in chemistry, with a particular focus on electrochemistry. Their research encompasses a range of interdisciplinary subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, cellular and molecular neuroscience, polymers and plastics, and molecular biology.

The main research topics Christian Amatore has contributed to include:

  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

Christian Amatore has published extensively in several scientific outlets. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Electrochimica Acta
  • ChemElectroChem
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Christian Amatore include:

  • "Homeostasis inside Single Activated Phagolysosomes: Quantitative and Selective Measurements of Submillisecond Dynamics of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Production with a Nanoelectrochemical Sensor," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Quantitative Nano-amperometric Measurement of Intravesicular Glutamate Content and its Sub-Quantal Release by Living Neurons," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Nanoelectrodes for intracellular measurements of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in single living cells," 2020, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
  • "Electrochemical Storage of Atomic Hydrogen on Single Layer Graphene," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Nanosensor detection of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species leakage in frustrated phagocytosis of nanofibres," 2024, Nature Nanotechnology

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of colleagues, including:

  • Alexander Oleinick
  • Irina Svir
  • Wei-Hua Huang
  • Yan-Ling Liu
  • Giovanni Pireddu

Christian Amatore has been recognized with several awards throughout their career, such as:

  • Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal), Société chimique de France, 2018
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2010
  • Faraday Medal, Electrochemistry Group, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2007
  • Luigi Galvani Medal, Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica Italiana), 2007
  • Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2006

Best Publications

  • Anionic Pd(0) and Pd(II) intermediates in palladium-catalyzed Heck and cross-coupling reactions.

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand

  • Charge transfer at partially blocked surfaces

    C. Amatore;J.M. Savéant;D. Tessier

  • Evidence of the formation of zerovalent palladium from Pd(OAc)2 and triphenylphosphine

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand;Mohamed Amine M'Barki

  • Mechanistic and kinetic studies of palladium catalytic systems

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand

  • Mechanism and kinetic characteristics of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide in media of low proton availability

    Christian Amatore;Jean Michel Saveant

  • Rates and Mechanism of the Formation of Zerovalent Palladium Complexes from Mixtures of Pd(OAc)2 and Tertiary Phosphines and Their Reactivity in Oxidative Additions

    Christian Amatore;Emmanuelle Carre;Anny Jutand;Mohamed Amine M'Barki

  • Ferrocene‐Mediated Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer in a Series of Ferrocifen‐Type Breast‐Cancer Drug Candidates

    Elizabeth Hillard;Anne Vessières;Laurent Thouin;Gérard Jaouen

  • Microelectrodes. Definitions, characterization, and applications (Technical report)

    Karel Stulík;Christian Amatore;Karel Holub;Vladimír Marecek

  • Kinetic data for the transmetalation/reductive elimination in palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reactions: unexpected triple role of hydroxide ions used as base.

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand;Gaëtan Le Duc

  • Electrochemical monitoring of single cell secretion: vesicular exocytosis and oxidative stress.

    Christian Amatore;Stéphane Arbault;Manon Guille;Frédéric Lemaître

  • MICROELECTRODES. DEFINITIONS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS

    Christian Amatore;Karel Holub

  • Mechanism of the palladium-catalyzed homocoupling of arylboronic acids: key involvement of a palladium peroxo complex

    Carlo Adamo;Christian Amatore;Ilaria Ciofini;Anny Jutand

  • Role and effects of halide ions on the rates and mechanisms of oxidative addition of iodobenzene to low-ligated zerovalent palladium complexes Pd0(PPh3)2

    Christian Amatore;Mohamed Azzabi;Anny Jutand

  • Evidence for the Ligation of Palladium(0) Complexes by Acetate Ions: Consequences on the Mechanism of Their Oxidative Addition with Phenyl Iodide and PhPd(OAc)(PPh3)2 as Intermediate in the Heck Reaction

    Christian Amatore;Emmanuelle Carre;Anny Jutand;Mohamed Amine M'Barki

  • Electron transfer from aromatic hydrocarbons and their .pi.-complexes with metals. Comparison of the standard oxidation potentials and vertical ionization potentials

    J. O. Howell;J. M. Goncalves;C. Amatore;L. Klasinc

  • Intimate mechanism of oxidative addition to zerovalent palladium complexes in the presence of halide ions and its relevance to the mechanism of palladium-catalyzed nucleophilic substitutions

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand;Alejandra Suarez

  • Gold Nanoclusters and Graphene Nanocomposites for Drug Delivery and Imaging of Cancer Cells

    Chensu Wang;Jingyuan Li;Christian Amatore;Yu Chen

  • Rates and mechanisms of oxidative addition to zerovalent palladium complexes generated in situ from mixtures of Pd0(dba)2 and triphenylphosphine

    Christian Amatore;Anny Jutand;Fouad Khalil;Mohamed A. M'Barki

  • Mechanism of oxidative addition of palladium(0) with aromatic iodides in toluene, monitored at ultramicroelectrodes

    Christian Amatore;Fernando Pfluger

  • Cyclic voltammetric studies of copper complexes catalyzing atom transfer radical polymerization

    Jian Qiu;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Laurent Thouin;Christian Amatore

Frequent Co-Authors

Anny Jutand
Anny Jutand École Normale Supérieure
Jean-Michel Savéant
Jean-Michel Savéant Université Paris Cité
Gérard Jaouen
Gérard Jaouen Chimie ParisTech
Jay K. Kochi
Jay K. Kochi University of Houston
Zhong-Qun Tian
Zhong-Qun Tian Xiamen University
Jean Pinson
Jean Pinson Université Paris Cité
Anne Vessières
Anne Vessières Université Paris Cité
Neso Sojic
Neso Sojic University of Bordeaux
Bing-Wei Mao
Bing-Wei Mao Xiamen University
Andrew G. Ewing
Andrew G. Ewing University of Gothenburg

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