2017–now CNRS research associate at ICSN.
2010–2017 CNRS research associate at ESPCI, UMR 8231 Chimie, Biologie, Innovation, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Paris
2009 – 2010 Post-doctoral stint at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, with Prof. K.C. Nicolaou
2005 – 2008 Ph.D. at ICSN/Ecole Polytechnique under the guidance of Dr. Siméon Arseniyadis.
2002 – 2005 Bachelor and master degrees at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, X2001.
2000 – 2001 Erasmus Scholarship at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Total synthesis of bioactive meroterpenes
Synthetically useful, biocatalyzed transformations
CH activation by enzymes
Original synthetic methods involving iron and palladium catalysis
1. Maiga-Wandiam, B., Corbu, A., Massiot, G., Sautel, F., Yu, P., Lin, B. W.-Y., Houk, K. N., Cossy, J. Intramolecular Diels-Alder approaches to the decalin core of verongidolide. The origin of the exo-selectivity : a DFT analysis. J. Org. Chem, 2018, 83 (11), 5975.
2. Calmus, L. ; Corbu, A. ; Cossy, J. 2H-Chromenes Generated by an Iron(III) Complex-Catalyzed Allylic Cyclization Adv. Synth. Catal. 2015, 357, 1381–1386
3. Butkevich, A.N. ; Meerpoel, L. ; Stansfield, I. ; Angibaud, P. ; Corbu, A. ; Cossy, J. Tandem Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling/Acid-Catalyzed Cyclization Between Vinyl Ether Boronates and Vinyl Halides : a Concise Approach to Polysubstituted Furans. Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 3840–3843.
4. Nicolaou, K.C. ; Jiang, X. ; Lindsay-Scott, P.J. ; Corbu, A. ; Yamashiro, S. ; Bacconi, A. ; Fowler, V.M. Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Monorhizopodin and 16-Epi-Monorhizopodin. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 1139–1144.
5. Corbu, A. ; Perez, M. ; Aquino, M. ; Retailleau, P. ; Arseniyadis, S. Total Synthesis and Structural Confirmation of Ent-Galbanic Acid and Marneral. Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 2853–2856.
6. Corbu, A. ; Aquino, M. ; Pratap, T.V. ; Retailleau, P. ; Arseniyadis, S. Enantioselective Synthesis of Iridal, the Parent Molecule of the Iridal Triterpenoid Class. Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 1787–1790.
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