Alain IGAU - Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination UPR 8241

Alain IGAU
Research Director
Phone: +33 55 33 31 59
Cellphone (SMS) : +33 (0)6 20 37 06 35
E-mail: [email protected]
Visiting address: Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, BP 44099
205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse cedex 4
Room number: B015
Vita: I grew up in a small village, Bagnères de Bigorre, at the foot of the central Pyrenees mountains (France).
In 1989, under the supervision of Dr. Guy Bertrand, I have defended my PhD in organic and main group
chemistry. My main project consisted in the preparation, characterization, and reactivity of the first stable
carbene. I also synthesized nitrogen-containing heterocycles from diazo compounds during my 3 months stay in
Pr. Edgar Niecke laboratory in Bonn (Germany) as a PROCOPE European fellow. I then joined, at the
University of Utah (USA), the team of Pr. John A. Gladysz specialized in coordination and organometallic
chemistry for a two years post-doctoral researcher. I started in 1992 a senior researcher as “Chargé de
Recherche” at the CNRS working at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) in Toulouse in the team
of Dr. Jean-Pierre Majoral. My skills in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry were devoted to
supervise my topic centered in the studies of the interaction between group 4 and main group elements. In 1999,
I was promoted to research director. I am interested now in main group and coordination chemistry directed (i)
for the development of catalytic processes that are energy efficient, minimize or preferably eliminate the
formation of waste, avoid the use of toxic and/or hazardous solvents and reagents, and, where possible, utilize
renewable raw materials, and (ii) for electron transfer processes in the field of efficient light-energy conversion
and sensors applications. My research are based on a strong background in experimental main group element and
organometallic chemistry and on the complementary skills of the group members.
10 selected publications :
[Bis(diisopropylamino)phosphino]trimethylsilylcarbene: A Stable Nucleophilic Carbene
Igau, A.; Baceiredo, A.; Trinquier, G.; Bertrand, G. Angew. Chem. Int Ed 1989, 28, 621-22.
Reactions of the neohexyl iodide complex [(5-C5H5) Re(NO) (PPh3) (ICH2CH2C(CH3)3)] +BF4- and
nucleophiles: stereochemistry of carbon-iodine bond cleavage in highly accelerated SN2 reactions
Igau, A.; Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 1991, 10, 2327-34.
Five-Coordinate Organo-Zirconocene-ate Complexes: Synthesis and Reactivity
Miquel, Y; Cadierno, V.; Donnadieu, B.; Igau, A.; Majoral, J.-P. Organometallics 2000, 19, 54-61.
Broad HOMO–LUMO gap tuning through the coordination of a single phosphine, aminophosphine or phosphite
onto a Ru(tpy)(bpy)2+ core
Lebon, E.; Dixon, I., Loustau, G.; Sutra, P.; Vendier, L.; Igau, A.; Juris, A. Dalton Trans. 2008, 5627–5635.
Unprecedented rearrangement during the formation of P–P homoatomic N-phosphino formamidine complexes
Le, T. D. ; Arquier, D. ; Miqueu, K. ; Sotiropoulos, J.-M. ; Coppel, Y. ; Bastin , S. ; Igau, A.
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2009, 694, 229–236.
Crucial role of the amidine moiety in methylenamino phosphine-type ligands for the synthesis of tethered 6arene-1-P ruthenium(II) complexes : experimental and theoretical studies
Arquier, D. ; Vendier, L.; Miqueu, K. ; Sotiropoulos, Bastin , S. ; Igau, A. Organometallics 2009, 28, 4945-57.
Can a functionalized phosphine ligand promote room temperature luminescence of the [Ru(bpy)(tpy)]2+ core?
Emilie Lebon, Stéphanie Bastin, Pierre Sutra, Laure Vendier, Rémi E. Piau, Isabelle M. Dixon, Martial BoggioPasqua, Fabienne Alary, Jean-Louis Heully, Alain Igau, Alberto Juris Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 741–743.
Evidence of the unprecedented conversion of intermolecular proton to water bridging of two phosphoryl
ruthenium complexes
R. Sylvain, L. Vendier, C. Bijani, A. Santoro, F. Puntoriero, S. Campagna, P. Sutra, A. Igau
NewJ.Chem. 2013, 37, 3543
Phosphoryl Group as a Strong σ-Donor Anionic Phosphine-Type Ligand: A Combined Experimental and
Theoretical Study on Long-Lived Room Temperature Luminescence of the [Ru(tpy)(bpy)(Ph2PO)]+ Complex
Lebon, E.; Sylvain, R.; Piau, R. E. ; Lanthony, C. ; Pilmé, J. ; Sutra, P.; Boggio-Pasqua, M.; Heully, J.-L.; Alary,
F.; Juris, A.; Igau, A. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 1946−1948.
Tethered η5-Oxocyclohexadienyl Piano-Stool Ruthenium(II) Complexes: A New Class of Catalysts?
Manel Kechaou-Perrot, Laure Vendier, Stephanie Bastin, Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos, Karinne Miqueu, Lucía
Menendez-Rodríguez, Pascale Crochet, Victorio Cadierno, Alain Igau
Organometallics, ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/om501073q