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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
25751
World Ranking
2427
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Loïc Toupet is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work includes substantial involvement in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Oncology, and Organic Chemistry.

The primary topics addressed in Toupet's research encompass crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, RNA interference and gene delivery, cancer therapeutics and mechanisms, and metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Some of the recent published papers by Toupet include:

  • Copper(ii)l/d-valine-(1,10-phen) complexes target human telomeric G-quadruplex motifs and promote site-specific DNA cleavage and cellular cytotoxicity (2020, Dalton Transactions)
  • Molecular docking, DFT and antimicrobial studies of Cu(II) complex as topoisomerase I inhibitor (2020, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)
  • Two-photon absorption properties of multipolar triarylamino/tosylamido 1,1,4,4-tetracyanobutadienes (2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • Metal-to-metal electron transfer in a cyanido-bridged {Fe2Co2} square complex followed by X-ray diffraction and absorption techniques (2022, Chemical Communications)
  • CCDC 1479245: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020, The Cambridge Structural Database)

Toupet collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Farukh Arjmand, Corine Mathonière, Dmitri Mitcov, Evangelia S. Koumousi, and Pierre Dechambenoit.

Over the course of their career, Toupet has published research in several prominent venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Chemical Communications

Best Publications

  • ELEMENTAL CARBON CHAIN BRIDGING TWO IRON CENTERS: SYNTHESES AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF [CP(DPPE) FE-C4- FECP(DPPE)]N+.CNTDOT.N[PF6]-. X-RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MIXED VALENCE COMPLEX (N = 1)

    N Le Narvor;L Toupet;C Lapinte

  • Laser-induced ferroelectric structural order in an organic charge-transfer crystal

    Eric Collet;Marie-Hélene Lemée-Cailleau;Marylise Buron-Le Cointe;Hervé Cailleau

  • Phosphole-Containing π-Conjugated Systems: From Model Molecules to Polymer Films on Electrodes

    Caroline Hay;Muriel Hissler;Cédric Fischmeister;Joëlle Rault-Berthelot

  • Symmetry breaking and structural changes at the neutral-to-ionic transition in tetrathiafulvalene-p-chloranil.

    M. Le Cointe;M. H. Lemée-Cailleau;H. Cailleau;B. Toudic

  • A "Conjugal" Consanguineous Family of Butadiynediyl-Derived Complexes: Synthesis and Electronic Ground States of Neutral, Radical Cationic, and Dicationic Iron/Rhenium C4 Species

    Frédéric Paul;Wayne E. Meyer;Loic Toupet;Haijun Jiao

  • Continuous Symmetry Breaking Induced by Ion Pairing Effect in Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes: Beyond the Cyanine Limit

    Pierre-Antoine Bouit;Christophe Aronica;Loïc Toupet;Boris Le Guennic

  • Acid/Base‐Triggered Switching of Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Electronic Circular Dichroism in Organic and Organometallic Helicenes

    Nidal Saleh;Barry Moore;Monika Srebro;Nicolas Vanthuyne

  • Bonding and Substituent Effects in Electron-Rich Mononuclear Ruthenium σ-Arylacetylides of the Formula [(η2-dppe)(η5-C5Me5)Ru(C⋮C)-1,4-(C6H4)X][PF6]n (n = 0, 1; X = NO2, CN, F, H, OMe, NH2)

    Frédéric Paul;Benjamin G. Ellis;Michael I. Bruce;Loic Toupet

  • Di-organoiron Mixed Valent Complexes Featuring “(η2-dppe)(η5-C5Me5)Fe” Endgroups: Smooth Class-III to Class-II Transition Induced by Successive Insertion of 1,4-Phenylene Units in a Butadiyne-Diyl Bridge

    Safaa Ibn Ghazala;Frédéric Paul;Loic Toupet;Thierry Roisnel

  • η6‐Mesityl,η1‐Imidazolinylidene–Carbene–Ruthenium(II) Complexes: Catalytic Activity of their Allenylidene Derivatives in Alkene Metathesis and Cycloisomerisation Reactions

    Bekir Çetinkaya;Serpil Demir;Ismail Özdemir;Loïc Toupet

  • Vinylidene-, Alkynyl-, and trans-Bis(alkynyl)ruthenium Complexes. Crystal Structure of trans-[Ru(NH3)(C⋮C−Ph)(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2)2]PF6

    Daniel Touchard;Pierre Haquette;Salaheddine Guesmi;Luc Le Pichon

  • Electron-Rich Piano-Stool Iron σ-Acetylides Bearing a Functional Aryl Group. Synthesis and Characterization of Iron(II) and Iron(III) Complexes†

    Raphaël Denis;Loïc Toupet;Frédéric Paul, ,‡ and;Claude Lapinte

  • New ruthenium vinylidene complexes as intermediates for the access to .sigma.-acetylide and unsymmetrical trans-diynyl, alkynyl metal complexes. Crystal structures of [(Ph2PCH2PPh2)2(Cl)Ru=C=CH2]PF6 and [(Ph2PCH2PPh2)2(Cl)RuC.tplbond.CH] complexes

    Daniel Touchard;Pierre Haquette;Nadine Pirio;Loic Toupet

  • Design and synthesis of new bidentate alkoxy-NHC ligands for enantioselective copper-catalyzed conjugate addition

    Hervé Clavier;Ludovic Coutable;Loïc Toupet;Jean-Claude Guillemin

  • Halo- and alkyl(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)[1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]iron(III) 17-electron complexes: synthesis, NMR and magnetic properties and EHMO calculations

    Christophe. Roger;Paul. Hamon;Loic. Toupet;Hassan. Rabaa

  • Electropolymerization of pi-Conjugated Oligomers Containing Phosphole Cores and Terminal Thienyl Moieties: Optical and Electronic Properties We thank the CNRS, the MENRT, the Conseil Régional de Bretagne for financial support of this work and Prof. C. Moinet for helpful discussions.

    Hay C;Fischmeister C;Hissler M;Toupet L

  • Enantiopure Cycloiridiated Complexes Bearing a Pentahelicenic N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Displaying Long-Lived Circularly Polarized Phosphorescence

    Nora Hellou;Monika Srebro‐Hooper;Ludovic Favereau;Francesco Zinna;Francesco Zinna

  • Near IR Nonlinear Absorbing Chromophores with Optical Limiting Properties at Telecommunication Wavelengths

    Pierre-Antoine Bouit;Guillaume Wetzel;Gérard Berginc;Brigitte Loiseaux

  • Cycloisomerization of γ- and δ-acetylenic acids catalyzed by gold(I) chloride

    Estelle Marchal;Philippe Uriac;Béatrice Legouin;Loïc Toupet

  • Straightforward access to mono- and bis-cycloplatinated helicenes displaying circularly polarized phosphorescence by using crystallization resolution methods

    Chengshuo Shen;Emmanuel Anger;Monika Srebro;Nicolas Vanthuyne

  • Two‐Photon Absorption‐Related Properties of Functionalized BODIPY Dyes in the Infrared Range up to Telecommunication Wavelengths

    Pierre-Antoine Bouit;Kenji Kamada;Patrick Feneyrou;Gérard Berginc

  • Elemental Carbon Chain Bridging Two Iron Centers: Syntheses and Spectroscopic Properties of Donor−Acceptor [Fe]−C4−[Fe] Complexes Isolated in Two Different Oxidation States. X-ray Crystal Structure of [Cp*(dppe)Fe−C4−Fe(CO)2Cp*]

    Françoise Coat;Marie-Andrée Guillevic;Loic Toupet;Frédéric Paul

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Matt
Dominique Matt University of Strasbourg
Claude Lapinte
Claude Lapinte University of Rennes
Pierre H. Dixneuf
Pierre H. Dixneuf University of Rennes
Marc Mauduit
Marc Mauduit University of Rennes
Eric Collet
Eric Collet University of Rennes
Christian Bruneau
Christian Bruneau University of Rennes
Olivier Maury
Olivier Maury École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Régis Réau
Régis Réau University of Rennes
Jeanne Crassous
Jeanne Crassous University of Rennes
Karine Costuas
Karine Costuas University of Rennes

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