Dr. J. Antoine BACEIREDO          Director of Research – CNRS

 J. Antoine Baceiredo was born in Cambre (Spain). He obtained his PhD at the University of Toulouse, in 1982, where he worked under the direction of Professor Guy Bertrand. In 1985 he joined the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in the group of Professor W. P. Weber for a post-doc. In 1992 he was promoted to the rank of Directeur de Recherche CNRS at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) in Toulouse where he remained until 1999.  In that year he joined the Laboratoire Heterochimie Fondamenatle et Appliquée (LHFA) where he has his research group. Currently he is the Director of the Institut de Chimie de Toulouse, and member of the Scientific Board of the CNRS. In 2011, he was awarded with the prize of the French Chemical Society, Organic Division, and in 2012, he was promoted Director of Research Exceptional Class.

 *Expertise:

-Main group elements chemistry (P, Si, B,…)
-Electron deficient species (carbenes, cations,…)
-New mixed bis-ylide systems as asymmetric carbon atom sources,
-Development of new inorganic ylides

-Silicon polymers

 *Scientific Production:

         -160 publications (3 Science, 29 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 35 Angew. Chem.,…)
         -11 patents - 68 invited lectures - Supervisor of 28 PhD Thesis and 33 Post-Docs