Age :45; married, 3 children
Chargé de recherche at the CNRS since the 1st of January 2002, 1ère classe
Composante INSA de Rennes, Equipe Chimie du Solide et Matériaux, UMR 6226, Institut de Chimie de Rennes,
CNRS – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, 20 Avenue des buttes de Coësmes,
F-35708 Rennes Cedex ; France, tél:+33 (0)2 23 23 87 79 E-mail : christophe.lescop@insa-rennes.fr
Professional history
2013-2015 : Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher
2009 : Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Rennes 1.
2002 : Chargé de recherche at the C.N.R.S. Université de Rennes 1.
2001 : Post-doctoral work done at the Université de Montréal (Canada), Professeur J.D. Wuest. ‘Porous Molecular Materials based on coordination complexes’.
1997-2000 : PhD in chemistry of the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), made at the C.E.A. Grenoble, mixed funding C.N.R.S./C.E.A., and at the International Tomography Center of Novossibirsk (Russie). ‘Magnetic Molecular Materials based on complexes of chiral and bisbidentate nitroxide radical’.
1996-1997 : Military service carried at the C.E.A. Saclay as ‘scientifique du contingent’. ‘ ‘Biscyclopentadienyle dithiolate complexes of Uranium, Synthesis, characterization and reactivity studies’
1994-1996 : Degree of ‘ingénieur de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris’.
Research area
Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry, Solid State Molecular Materials, Light Emissive Materials
Author of 71 publications (H factor October 2017: 26) including:
1 Acc. Chem. Res. 5 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2 J. Am. Chem. Soc.
1 Chem. Sci. 12 Chem. Eur. J. 8 Chem. Commun.
1 Org. Lett. 9 Inorg. Chem. 3 Organometallics 3 Book Chapters
29 invited seminars and 42 oral communications in national and international meetings.
- Organizer of the symposium S9 of ‘Supramolecular Chemistry and Self-Assembly’ of the 42nd ICCC.
- Member of the organizing committee of 1 national and 4 international conferences.
- Member of the International associated laboratories China-Rennes ‘MOF’ and France-Russia ‘Cluspom’ and of thee PHC Procope (Germany) bilateral exchange programs.
- Member of the French consortium involved in the international France/Hong Kong ANR-RGC grant ‘P-OPTOELECTR-MOLMAT’ (2013-2017; main french member)
Distinctions: “Prime d’excellence scientifique” (CNRS, 2011). Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher (2013-2016).
Selected Publications
1) B. Nohra, S. Graule, C. Lescop, R. Réau, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 3520-3521.
2) B. Nohra, Y. Yao, C. Lescop, R. Réau, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 8242-8245.
3) Y. Yao, W. Shen, B. Nohra, C. Lescop, R. Réau, Chem. Eur. J., 2010, 16, 7143-7163. (Cover Picture)
4) L. Norel, M. Rudolph, N. Vanthuyne, G. Williams, C. Lescop, C. Roussel, J. Auchtsbach, J. Crassous, R. Réau, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 99-101.
5) S. Welsch, C. Lescop, G. Balazs, R. Réau, M. Scheer, Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 9130-9141.
6) H. Chen, W. Delaunay, L. Yu, D. Joly, Z. Wang, J. Li, Z. Wang, C. Lescop, D. Tondelier, B. Geffroy, Z. Duan, M. Hissler, F. Mathey, R. Réau, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 1, 214-217.
7) V. Vreshch, W. Shen, B. Nohra, S-KYip, V.W-W. Yam, C. Lescop, R.Réau, Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 2, 466-477.
8) P.-A. Bouit, A. Escande, R. Szűcs, D. Szieberth, C. Lescop, L. Nyulászi, M. Hissler, R. Réau, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, , 134 (15), 6524-6527.
9) V. Vreshch, M. El Sayed Moussa, B. Nohra, M. Srebo, N. Vanthuyne, C. Roussel, J. Autschbach, J. Crassous, C. Lescop, R. Réau, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 1968-1972.
10) M. El Sayed Moussa, K. Guillois, W. Shen, R. Réau, J. Crassous, C. Lescop, Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 14853-14867
11) M. Fleischmanm, L. Dütsch, M. El Sayed Moussa, A. Schindler, G. Balazs, C. Lescop, M. Scheer, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 2893-2893.
12) W. Shen, M. El Sayed Moussa, Y. Yao, R. Reau, C. Lescop, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 11560-11563. (Cover Picture); Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 15079-15079
13) M. El Sayed Moussa, H. Chen, ZY. Wang, M. Srebro-Hooper, N. Vanthuyne, S. Chevance, C. Roussel, G. J.A.. Williams, J. Autschbach, R. Reau, Z. Duan, C. Lescop. J. Crassous, Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 17, 6075-6086.
14) M. El Sayed Moussa, S. Evariste, H.-L. Wong, L. Le Bras, C. Roiland, L. Le Polles, B. Le Guennic, K. Costuas, V. W.-W. Yam, C. Lescop, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 11370-11373.
15) C. Lescop, Acc.Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 885–894.
16) S.-L. Leung, S. Evariste, C. Lescop, M. Hissler, V.-W. Yam, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 4264-4273.
