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Michel Ephritikhine

Michel Ephritikhine

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Chemistry

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15311
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Overview

Michel Ephritikhine is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has a research focus primarily within the field of Materials Science. Their work extensively covers Materials Chemistry, with additional publications in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. The research topics they engage in include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Magnetism in Coordination Complexes, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and themes of Michel Ephritikhine's research. These include:

  • Electronic Structure and Magneto-Structural Correlations Study of Cu2UL Trinuclear Schiff Base Complexes: A 3d-5f-3d Case, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Exchange Couplings and Magneto-Structural Correlations of Trinuclear MII-UIV-MII (MII=Co, Ni, Cu) Complexes, 2024, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • New insights into the reactivity of the triscyclopentadienyl monothiolate uranium(IV) complexes: CS2 and CO2 insertion and redox properties. A DFT theoretical approach, 2023, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • CCDC 2203006: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2022, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 2203007: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2022, The Cambridge Structural Database

Ephritikhine frequently collaborates with a consistent network of co-authors, including Claude Villiers and P. Thuéry, each with 13 joint publications. Other frequent co-authors are Abdou Boucekkine (3 collaborations), Lotfi Belkhırı (2 collaborations), and Rémi Maurice (2 collaborations).

The main venues publishing their work reflect a strong emphasis on crystallographic data and inorganic chemistry, with multiple contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database as well as publications in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Cover Picture: A Diagonal Approach to Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide: Organocatalytic Transformation for the Reductive Functionalization of CO2 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2012)

    Christophe Das Neves Gomes;Olivier Jacquet;Claude Villiers;Pierre Thuéry

  • A Diagonal Approach to Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide: Organocatalytic Transformation for the Reductive Functionalization of CO2

    Christophe Das Neves Gomes;Olivier Jacquet;Claude Villiers;Pierre Thuéry

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Reactions of Hydride, Borohydride, and Aluminohydride Compounds of the f-Elements.

    Michel Ephritikhine

  • The vitality of uranium molecular chemistry at the dawn of the XXIst century.

    Michel Ephritikhine

  • Recycling of Carbon and Silicon Wastes: Room Temperature Formylation of N–H Bonds Using Carbon Dioxide and Polymethylhydrosiloxane

    Olivier Jacquet;Christophe Das Neves Gomes;Michel Ephritikhine;Thibault Cantat

  • The U=C double bond: synthesis and study of uranium nucleophilic carbene complexes.

    Thibault Cantat;Thérèse Arliguie;Anne Noël;Pierre Thuéry

  • An Isolated CO2 Adduct of a Nitrogen Base: Crystal and Electronic Structures

    Claude Villiers;Jean-Pierre Dognon;Rodolphe Pollet;Pierre Thuéry

  • Recent Advances in Organoactinide Chemistry As Exemplified by Cyclopentadienyl Compounds

    Michel Ephritikhine

  • Lanthanide Borohydrides as Precursors to Organometallic Compounds. Mono(cyclooctatetraenyl) Neodymium Complexes

    Sophie M. Cendrowski-Guillaume, ,†;Gildas Le Gland;and Martine Nierlich;Michel Ephritikhine

  • Synthesis, structure, and magnetic behavior of a series of trinuclear Schiff base complexes of 5f (UIV, ThIV) and 3d (CuII, ZnII) ions.

    Lionel Salmon;Pierre Thuéry;Eric Rivière;Michel Ephritikhine

  • A new look at the McMurry reaction

    Michel Ephritikhine

  • Selective complexation of uranium(III) over cerium(III) by 2,6-bis(5,6-dialkyl-1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)pyridines: 1H NMR and X-ray crystallography studies

    Peter B. Iveson;Christelle Rivière;Denis Guillaneux;Martine Nierlich

  • Isomerisation of allyl ethers catalysed by the cationic iridium complex [Ir(cyclo-octa-1,5-diene)(PMePh2)2]PF6. A highly stereoselective route to trans-propenyl ethers

    Denise Baudry;Michel Ephritikhine;Hugh Felkin

  • Complete Catalytic Deoxygenation of CO2 into Formamidine Derivatives

    Olivier Jacquet;Christophe Das Neves Gomes;Michel Ephritikhine;Thibault Cantat

  • The affinity and selectivity of terdentate nitrogen ligands towards trivalent lanthanide and uranium ions viewed from the crystal structures of the 1 ∶ 3 complexes

    Jean-Claude Berthet;Yannick Miquel;Peter B. Iveson;Martine Nierlich

  • Titelbild: A Diagonal Approach to Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide: Organocatalytic Transformation for the Reductive Functionalization of CO2 (Angew. Chem. 1/2012)

    Christophe Das Neves Gomes;Olivier Jacquet;Claude Villiers;Pierre Thuéry

  • First Chemical Transformations of Lanthanide Borohydride Compounds: Synthesis and Crystal Structures of [(η-C8H8)Nd(BH4)(THF)]2 and [(η-C8H8)Nd(THF)4][BPh4]

    Sophie M. Cendrowski-Guillaume;Martine Nierlich;Monique Lance;Michel Ephritikhine

  • Lanthanide(III)/actinide(III) differentiation in the cerium and uranium complexes [M(C5Me5)2(L)]0,+ (L=2,2'-bipyridine, 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine): structural, magnetic, and reactivity studies.

    Thouraya Mehdoui;Jean-Claude Berthet;Pierre Thuéry;Lionel Salmon

  • U(SMes*)n, (n = 3, 4) and Ln(SMes*)3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd): Lanthanide(III)/Actinide(III) Differentiation in Agostic Interactions and an Unprecedented η3 Ligation Mode of the Arylthiolate Ligand, from X-ray Diffraction and DFT Analysis

    Mathieu Roger;Noémi Barros;Thérèse Arliguie;Pierre Thuéry

  • Exploring the uranyl organometallic chemistry: from single to double uranium-carbon bonds.

    Jean-Christophe Tourneux;Jean-Claude Berthet;Thibault Cantat;Pierre Thuéry

  • THE SELECTIVE CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF CYCLOALKANES INTO CYCLOALKENES USING A SOLUBLE RHENIUM POLYHYDRIDE SYSTEM

    Denise Baudry;Michel Ephritikhine;Hugh Felkin;Rupert Holmes-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Thuéry
Pierre Thuéry Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Claude Berthet
Jean-Claude Berthet French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Lionel Salmon
Lionel Salmon Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Thibault Cantat
Thibault Cantat University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Maury
Olivier Maury École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Eric Rivière
Eric Rivière University of Paris-Saclay
Charles Madic
Charles Madic French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Moris S. Eisen
Moris S. Eisen Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Nicolas Mézailles
Nicolas Mézailles Paul Sabatier University

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