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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Guy Bertrand is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions also in specialized subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Guy Bertrand has published extensively in academic journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Guy Bertrand include:

  • Cyclic (Alkyl)- and (Aryl)-(amino)carbene Coinage Metal Complexes and Their Applications, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Stable abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes and their applications, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs) in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Stable Carbenes, Nitrenes, Phosphinidenes, and Borylenes: Past and Future, 2020, Chem
  • Mesoionic carbene-Breslow intermediates as super electron donors: Application to the metal-free arylacylation of alkenes, 2021, Chem Catalysis

Collaboration plays a notable role in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Rodolphe Jazzar
  • Mohand Melaïmi
  • Marc Mauduit
  • François Vermersch
  • Thierry Roisnel

Throughout their career, Guy Bertrand has received several recognitions:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2003
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2002

Best Publications

  • Stable Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Carbenes as Rigid or Flexible, Bulky, Electron-Rich Ligands for Transition-Metal Catalysts: A Quaternary Carbon Atom Makes the Difference

    Vincent Lavallo;Yves Canac;Carsten Präsang;Bruno Donnadieu

  • Stable Cyclic Carbenes and Related Species beyond Diaminocarbenes

    Mohand Melaimi;Michèle Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Analogous .alpha.,.alpha.'-bis-carbenoid, triply bonded species: synthesis of a stable .lambda.3-phosphino carbene-.lambda.5-phosphaacetylene

    Alain. Igau;Hansjorg. Grutzmacher;Antoine. Baceiredo;Guy. Bertrand

  • Facile splitting of hydrogen and ammonia by nucleophilic activation at a single carbon center.

    Guido D. Frey;Vincent Lavallo;Bruno Donnadieu;Wolfgang W. Schoeller

  • Stable Carbenes.

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  • Cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs): stable carbenes on the rise.

    Michèle Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs): Recent Developments

    Mohand Melaimi;Rodolphe Jazzar;Michèle Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Stable singlet carbenes as mimics for transition metal centers

    David Martin;Michele Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Eliminating nonradiative decay in Cu(I) emitters: >99% quantum efficiency and microsecond lifetime.

    Rasha Hamze;Jesse L. Peltier;Daniel Sylvinson;Moonchul Jung

  • Synthesis and Characterization of a Neutral Tricoordinate Organoboron Isoelectronic with Amines

    Rei Kinjo;Bruno Donnadieu;Mehmet Ali Celik;Gernot Frenking

  • 31P NMR chemical shifts of carbene-phosphinidene adducts as an indicator of the π-accepting properties of carbenes.

    Olivier Back;Martin Henry-Ellinger;Caleb D. Martin;David Martin

  • Synthesis of an Extremely Bent Acyclic Allene (A “Carbodicarbene”): A Strong Donor Ligand

    C. Adam Dyker;Vincent Lavallo;Bruno Donnadieu;Guy Bertrand

  • Carbene-stabilized main group radicals and radical ions

    Caleb D. Martin;Michele Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Crystalline 1H‐1,2,3‐Triazol‐5‐ylidenes: New Stable Mesoionic Carbenes (MICs)

    Gregorio Guisado-Barrios;Jean Bouffard;Bruno Donnadieu;Guy Bertrand

  • Isolation of a c5-deprotonated imidazolium, a crystalline abnormal n-heterocyclic carbene

    Guy Bertrand;Bruno Donnadieu;Eugenia Aldeco-Perez

  • A Brief Survey of Our Contribution to Stable Carbene Chemistry

    David Martin;Mohand Melaimi;Michele Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Homogeneous Catalytic Hydroamination of Alkynes and Allenes with Ammonia

    Vincent Lavallo;Guido D. Frey;Bruno Donnadieu;Michele Soleilhavoup

  • CO Fixation to Stable Acyclic and Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbenes: Stable Amino Ketenes with a Small HOMO–LUMO Gap

    Vincent Lavallo;Yves Canac;Bruno Donnadieu;Wolfgang W. Schoeller

  • Singlet diradicals: from transition states to crystalline compounds.

    David Scheschkewitz;Hideki Amii;Heinz Gornitzka;Wolfgang W. Schoeller

  • [Bis(diisopropylamino)phosphino]trimethylsilylcarbene: A Stable Nucleophilic Carbene

    Alai Igau;Antoine Baceiredo;Georges Trinquier;Guy Bertrand

  • Stabile cyclische Carbene und verwandte Spezies jenseits der Diaminocarbene

    Mohand Melaimi;Michèle Soleilhavoup;Guy Bertrand

  • Stable Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbenes as Rigid or Flexible, Bulky, Electron-Rich Ligands for Transition-Metal Catalysts: A Quaternary Carbon Atom Makes the Difference.

    Vincent Lavallo;Yves Canac;Carsten Praesang;Bruno Donnadieu

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Baceiredo
Antoine Baceiredo Paul Sabatier University
Bruno Donnadieu
Bruno Donnadieu University of California, Riverside
Didier Bourissou
Didier Bourissou Paul Sabatier University
Mohand Melaimi
Mohand Melaimi University of California, San Diego
Heinz Gornitzka
Heinz Gornitzka Paul Sabatier University
Wolfgang W. Schoeller
Wolfgang W. Schoeller University of California, Riverside
Rodolphe Jazzar
Rodolphe Jazzar University of California, San Diego
Régis Réau
Régis Réau University of Rennes
Françoise Dahan
Françoise Dahan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Pierre Majoral
Jean-Pierre Majoral Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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