Publication of the opening lecture by Prof. Louis Fensterbank

Louis Fensterbank

Molecular chemistry : new challenges and sustainable innovation

This book examines the dynamics of activation processes in Molecular Chemistry and their contribution to green innovation.

Molecular synthesis is the science of transforming starting molecules to create new, more elaborate ones. Physically, it requires the formation of new bonds between atoms through a molecular activation process that may be thermal, photochemical, mechanical or catalytic.
After more than a century of industrial development and constant innovation, the need for energy transition and resource sustainability is redirecting research into molecular synthesis, particularly activation processes, to produce molecules with optimized properties for a growing world population.

Fensterbank L., Chimie moléculaire : nouveaux défis et innovation durable, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Leçons inaugurales ",^no 330, janvier 2025, 80  p.

ISBN :978-2-7226-0772-9
Price : €12
Publication : 23  January 2025

Louis Fensterbank taught at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University before becoming a CNRS researcher and then professor at Sorbonne University. He was also Director of the Paris-Centre Master of Chemistry and of the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry. The recipient of several awards, including the CNRS Silver Medal in 2017, he has held the Activations in Molecular Chemistry chair at the Collège de France since October 2023.