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Jean-Baptiste Sortais is affiliated with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse in France. Their research primarily spans materials science and chemistry, with a significant focus on materials chemistry and organic and inorganic chemistry subfields. The work also touches on process chemistry and biomedical engineering.

Sortais's scientific contributions include various topics emphasizing crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis. Additional areas of research include carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, N-heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, and organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis.

Their frequent coauthors include Yves Canac, Dmitry A. Valyaev, Carine Duhayon, Ruqaya Buhaibeh, and Thierry Roisnel, with collaborative efforts reflected in multiple publications.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sortais include:

  • Towards ligand simplification in manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation and hydrosilylation processes, 2022, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Manganese-New prominent actor in transfer hydrogenation catalysis, 2021, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
  • Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones promoted by manganese(I) pre-catalysts supported by bidentate aminophosphines, 2020, Catalysis Communications
  • Cationic PCP and PCN NHC Core Pincer-Type Mn(I) Complexes: From Synthesis to Catalysis, 2021, Organometallics
  • Manganese and rhenium-catalyzed selective reduction of esters to aldehydes with hydrosilanes, 2020, Chemical Communications

The scientist's research is frequently published in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemical Communications, Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, and Coordination Chemistry Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Efficient and selective N-alkylation of amines with alcohols catalysed by manganese pincer complexes.

    Saravanakumar Elangovan;Jacob Neumann;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Kathrin Junge

  • Cycloruthenated Compounds – Synthesis and Applications

    Jean‐Pierre Djukic;Jean‐Baptiste Sortais;Laurent Barloy;Michel Pfeffer

  • Iron‐Catalyzed α‐Alkylation of Ketones with Alcohols

    Saravanakumar Elangovan;Saravanakumar Elangovan;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Matthias Beller;Christophe Darcel

  • Mono-N-methylation of anilines with methanol catalyzed by a manganese pincer-complex

    Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Ding Wang;Vincent Dorcet;Thierry Roisnel

  • N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands and Iron: An Effective Association for Catalysis

    David Bézier;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • A chemoenzymatic approach to enantiomerically pure amines using dynamic kinetic resolution: application to the synthesis of norsertraline

    Lisa K. Thalén;Dongbo Zhao;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Jens Paetzold

  • Iron-catalyzed C-H borylation of arenes.

    Thomas Dombray;C. Gunnar Werncke;C. Gunnar Werncke;Shi Jiang;Mary Grellier;Mary Grellier

  • Transfer Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Derivatives Catalyzed by an Inexpensive Phosphine-Free Manganese Precatalyst.

    Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Ding Wang;Vincent Dorcet;Thierry Roisnel

  • Selective Reduction of Esters to Aldehydes under the Catalysis of Well‐Defined NHC–Iron Complexes

    Haoquan Li;Luis C. Misal Castro;Jianxia Zheng;Thierry Roisnel

  • NHC-carbene cyclopentadienyl iron based catalyst for a general and efficient hydrosilylation of imines

    Luis C. Misal Castro;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Piano-Stool Iron Complexes as Efficient Catalysts for Hydrosilylation of Carbonyl Derivatives

    Fan Jiang;David Bézier;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • Hydrogenation of ketones with a manganese PN3P pincer pre-catalyst

    Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Ding Wang;Thierry Roisnel;Christophe Darcel

  • Selective reduction of carboxylic acids to aldehydes through manganese catalysed hydrosilylation

    Jianxia Zheng;Soizic Chevance;Christophe Darcel;Jean-Baptiste Sortais

  • Well-Defined Cyclopentadienyl NHC Iron Complex as the Catalyst for Efficient Hydrosilylation of Amides to Amines and Nitriles

    David Bézier;Gopaladasu T. Venkanna;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • Cyclopentadienyl–NHC Iron Complexes for Solvent-Free Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes and Ketones

    David Bézier;Fan Jiang;Thierry Roisnel;Jean‐Baptiste Sortais

  • Amine synthesis via transition metal homogeneous catalysed hydrosilylation

    Bin Li;Bin Li;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • Iron Dihydride Complex as the Pre-catalyst for Efficient Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes and Ketones Under Visible Light Activation

    Luis C. Misal Castro;David Bézier;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Christophe Darcel

  • Practical (asymmetric) transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by manganese with (chiral) diamines ligands

    Ding Wang;Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Jean-Baptiste Sortais

  • Iron-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Esters

    David Bézier;Gopaladasu T. Venkanna;Luis C. Misal Castro;Jianxia Zheng

  • Manganese catalyzed α-methylation of ketones with methanol as a C1 source.

    Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Antoine Bruneau-Voisine;Lenka Pallova;Stéphanie Bastin;Vincent César

  • Cycloruthenated Primary and Secondary Amines as Efficient Catalyst Precursors for Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation

    Jean-Baptiste Sortais;Vincent Ritleng;Adeline Voelklin;Alexandre Holuigue

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Darcel
Christophe Darcel University of Rennes
Thierry Roisnel
Thierry Roisnel University of Rennes
Vincent Dorcet
Vincent Dorcet University of Rennes
Michel Pfeffer
Michel Pfeffer University of Ulm
Claude B. Sirlin
Claude B. Sirlin University of California, San Diego
Laure Vendier
Laure Vendier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Prasenjit Ghosh
Prasenjit Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Johannes G. de Vries
Johannes G. de Vries Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Eric Clot
Eric Clot University of Montpellier
Gerald Kehr
Gerald Kehr University of Münster

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