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2025

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D-Index
86
Citations
22560
World Ranking
2594
National Ranking
64

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Max Malacria is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a significant focus on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields of study include Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Max Malacria has contributed to numerous publications, including these recent papers:

  • Visible-Light Promoted Intramolecular para-Cycloadditions on Simple Aromatics, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Orthogonal Syntheses of 3.2.0 Bicycles from Enallenes Promoted by Visible Light, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Dimerizing cascades of enallenamides reveal the visible-light-promoted activation of cumulated C-C double bonds, 2022, Chemical Science
  • Photoelectric properties of aromatic triangular tri-palladium complexes and their catalytic applications in the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction, 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • Is Aromaticity a Driving Force in Catalytic Cycles? A Case from the Cycloisomerization of Enynes Catalyzed by All-Metal Aromatic Pd3+ Clusters and Carboxylic Acids, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemical Science
  • Organic Letters
  • Dalton Transactions

Throughout their career, Max Malacria has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Giovanni Maestri
  • Andrea Serafino
  • Luciano Marchiò
  • Franca Bigi
  • Raimondo Maggi

In 2018, Max Malacria was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • The behavior of 1,n-enynes in the presence of transition metals.

    Corinne Aubert;Olivier Buisine;Max Malacria

  • Transition Metal Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of 1,n-Allenynes and -Allenenes

    Corinne Aubert;Louis Fensterbank;Pierre Garcia;Max Malacria

  • Selective Preparation of Complex Polycyclic Molecules from Acyclic Precursors via Radical Mediated- or Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions.

    Max Malacria

  • Synthesis and reactions of N-heterocyclic carbene boranes.

    Dennis P. Curran;Andrey Solovyev;Malika Makhlouf Brahmi;Louis Fensterbank

  • Molecular complexity from polyunsaturated substrates: the gold catalysis approach.

    Louis Fensterbank;Max Malacria

  • Gold‐Catalyzed Cross‐Couplings: New Opportunities for CC Bond Formation

    Pierre Garcia;Max Malacria;Corinne Aubert;Vincent Gandon

  • Golden Carousel in Catalysis: The Cationic Gold/Propargylic Ester Cycle

    Andrea Correa;Nicolas Marion;Louis Fensterbank;Max Malacria

  • Recent advances in the use of phosphorus-centered radicals in organic chemistry

    Dominique Leca;Louis Fensterbank;Emmanuel Lacôte;Max Malacria

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Boryl Radicals: A New Class of Boron-Centered Radical

    Shau-Hua Ueng;Andrey Solovyev;Xinting Yuan;Steven J Geib

  • Complexes of Borane and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A New Class of Radical Hydrogen Atom Donor

    Shau-Hua Ueng;Malika Makhlouf Brahmi;Étienne Derat;Louis Fensterbank

  • Generation and trapping of cyclopentenylidene gold species: four pathways to polycyclic compounds.

    Gilles Lemière;Vincent Gandon;Kevin Cariou;Alexandra Hours

  • PtCl2-Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of 5-En-1-yn-3-ol Systems

    Youssef Harrak;Christophe Blaszykowski;Matthieu Bernard;Kevin Cariou

  • Recent progress in cobalt-mediated [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions.

    Vincent Gandon;Corinne Aubert;Max Malacria

  • Visible-light-induced photoreductive generation of radicals from epoxides and aziridines.

    Marie-Hélène Larraufie;Rémy Pellet;Louis Fensterbank;Jean-Philippe Goddard

  • EPR Studies of the Generation, Structure, and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Borane Radicals

    John C. Walton;Malika Makhlouf Brahmi;Louis Fensterbank;Emmanuel Lacôte

  • The effect of a hydroxy protecting group on the PtCl2-catalyzed cyclization of dienynes--a novel, efficient, and selective synthesis of carbocycles.

    Emily Mainetti;Virginie Mouriès;Louis Fensterbank;Max Malacria

  • Efficient Preparation of Functionalized Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Wells−Dawson-type Polyoxotungstates

    Sébastian Bareyt;Stergios Piligkos;Bernold Hasenknopf;Pierre Gouzerh

  • Cobalt-Catalyzed Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes: The Answer to the Puzzle of Parallel Reaction Pathways

    Nicolas Agenet;Vincent Gandon;K Peter C Vollhardt;Max Malacria

  • Tandem gold(I)-catalyzed cyclization/electrophilic cyclopropanation of vinyl allenes.

    Gilles Lemière;Vincent Gandon;Kevin Cariou;Takahide Fukuyama

  • Identification of Polyoxometalates as Nanomolar Noncompetitive Inhibitors of Protein Kinase CK2

    Renaud Prudent;Virginie Moucadel;Béatrice Laudet;Caroline Barette

  • Of the Ortho Effect in Palladium/Norbornene-Catalyzed Reactions: A Theoretical Investigation

    Giovanni Maestri;Giovanni Maestri;Elena Motti;Nicola Della Ca;Max Malacria

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Fensterbank
Louis Fensterbank Sorbonne University
Corinne Aubert
Corinne Aubert Sorbonne University
Emmanuel Lacôte
Emmanuel Lacôte Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Vincent Gandon
Vincent Gandon University of Paris-Saclay
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
K. Peter C. Vollhardt
K. Peter C. Vollhardt University of California, Berkeley
Denis Fichou
Denis Fichou Sorbonne University
Steven P. Nolan
Steven P. Nolan Ghent University
Jean-Luc Renaud
Jean-Luc Renaud Université de Caen Normandie
Giovanni Palmisano
Giovanni Palmisano Khalifa University

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