'transition metal'
Yb
Pd
'non-innocent ligand'
'f-element'
Office: 0033 (0)1 69 33 44 02
greg.nocton(at)polytechnique.edu
I was born in June 1983 in Reims, Champagne, France. After a Bachelor of science followed by a master in Inorganic and Bio-inorganic chemistry in the universities of Reims (France), TU München (Germany) and Grenoble (France), I have completed a PhD (2006-2009) on the coordination chemistry and redox reactivity of uranium with Marinella Mazzanti at the CEA of Grenoble, France. I then joined Dick Andersen's lab at the University of California Berkeley for two fantastics years working on low-valent organometallics and studying in depth their odd electronic structures.
I came back in France at the end of 2011 as a CRNS researcher at the Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire (Molecular Chemistry Lab) of the Ecole polytechnique, a leading science and technology institution in France. I am now developing a research on organometallic compounds with potential applications in small molecules activation and catalysis. We are interested in the deep study of the characteristics of the new molecules and use many different spectroscopies.
I received the bronze medal of the CNRS in 2016, young investigator prize, and have several research grants from the french national agency (ANR) for research and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant). I am also an associated professor at Ecole polytechnique and teach symmetry and spectroscopy (including NMR) as well as supramolecular chemistry.