Pierre Braunstein

He spent the academic year 1971/72 as a post-doctoral fellow at University College London, with Professors Sir Ronald S. Nyholm and Robin J.H.

After defending his state doctorate thesis at the ULP in 1974, he was awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship to spend the academic year (1974/75) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with Professor Ernst Otto Fischer (Nobel Prize laureate).

[1][2][3] His research focuses on the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the transition metals and the main group elements, where he has (co-)authored of more than 580 scientific publications and review articles.

They cover impressively diverse areas ranging from the study of metal-metal-bonded complexes, (hetero)nuclear complexes and atomic aggregates,[4][5] multisite activation of organic substrates,[6][7] heterometallic clusters with metallophilic interactions between metal ions with complete electronic shells,[8][9] functional and hemilable ligands (with donor atoms N, P, O, S, N-heterocyclic carbenes,...)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] phosphinoenolate complexes,[21] the activation of CO2 and organic isocyanates and their catalytic recovery,[22][23] silylated ligands in a heterobimetallic environment,[24][25] the study of original quinonoid zwitterions with delocalized organic π systems, which promote electronic communication between metal centres,[26][27] and allow the modification of the electronic properties of the surfaces on which they are deposited.

[34][35] He has given more than 480 plenary lectures and invited guests to international conferences and institutions and has received numerous awards and honours from France, Germany, China, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.