2020-now |
Co-Director of the Labcom HitCat, a joint lab between SEQENS and CNRS. |
2020-now | CNRS research director DR1, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. |
2015-2019 | CNRS research director DR2, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. |
2010-2014 | CNRS Researcher 1st class (CR2, Tenure), Research Associate, ICSN. |
2010 | Habilitation, University Paris XI, Orsay, France. |
2005-2010 | CNRS Researcher 2nd class (CR2, Tenure), Research Associate, ICSN. |
2003-2005 | Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Prof. H. Hiemstra and Prof. J. van Maarseven, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
2000-2003 | PhD thesis with Dr. S. Py and Prof. Y. Vallée, Joseph Fourier University Grenoble, France. Financed by a grant from the French Ministry of Research and Education. |
1999-2000 | Master’s degree with Prof P. Compain and Prof O. Martin, University of Orléans, Paris V, and Paris XI, France. |
1996-1999 | BSc (organic chemistry), University of Orléans, France. |
Organocatalysis
Asymmetric catalysis
Designing new enantioselective organocatalytic reactions
Photoredox catalysis
Synthesis of new chiral photocatalysts
Hypervalent iodine chemistry
Electrochemistry
« Redox‐Divergent Chiral Phosphoric Acid‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Formal Quinone Diels–Alder Reactions » Varlet, T.; Gelis, C.; Retailleau, P; Bernadat, G.; Neuville, L; Masson, G.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 8491-8496
“Aerobic tetrazine-catalyzed oxidative nitroso-Diels-Alder reaction of N-arylhydroxylamines with dienecarbamates: access to functionalized 1,6-dihydro-1,2-oxazines” Le, T.; Courant, T.; Merad, J.; Allain, C.;* Audebert, P.;* Masson, G.* ChemCatChem 2019, 7, 5282-5286.
“s-Tetrazine Dyes: a facile generation of photoredox organocatalysts for routine oxidations” Le, T.; Courant, T.; Merad, J.; Allain, C.;* Audebert, P.; Masson, G.* J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 16139 -16146
“Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Construction of Structurally Diverse Benzothiazolopyrimidines” Jarrige, L.; Glavač, D.; Levitre, G.; Retailleau, P.; Bernadat, G.; Neuville, L.; Masson, G.* Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 3765-3769.
“Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclo-hepta[b]indoles via Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed [4+3] Cycloaddition” Gelis, C.; Levitre, G.; Merad, J.; Retailleau, P.; Neuville, L., Masson, G* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12121-12125
“Enantioselective Organocatalytic Intramolecular aza-Diels–Alder Reaction” Jarrige, L.; Blanchard, F.; Masson, G.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 10573-10576
“Asymmetric α-Sulfonyl- and α-Phosphoryl-Oxylation of Ketones by a Chiral Hypervalent Iodine(III)” Levitre, G.; Dumoulin, A.; Retailleau, P.; Panossian, A.; Leroux, F. R.; Masson, G.* J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 11877-11883
« Chiral Hypervalent Iodine(III) Catalyst Promotes Highly Enantioselective Sulfonyl- and Phosphoryl-oxylactonizations » Gelis, C.; Dumoulin, A.; Bekkaye, M.; Neuville, L.; Masson, G.* Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 278–281
“α,α’-Carbamoylsulfides as N-Carbamoylimine Precursors in the Visible Light Photoredox-Catalyzed Synthesis of α,α-Disubstituted Amines” Lebée, C.; Languet, M.; Allain, C.; Masson, G.* Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1478–1481.
2022 Cannizzaro-Arnaudon Lectureship from the Italian Chemical Society
2020 Junior Distinguished Member from the French chemical Society
2019 J.-M. Lehn prize from the French Organic Chemistry Division
2017 Novacap Prize of the French Académie des Sciences Award
2016 Liebig Lectureship of the German Chemical Society
2016 Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
2016 ISHC Lecture Award at the 27th European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue 2015
2013 CNRS bronze medal, from CNRS
2011 Diverchim Prize in Synthetic Chemistry from the French Organic Chemistry Division
2011 ACS Young Investigators Symposium, ACS meeting, Denver, USA
2021 to present |
Deputy Editor, ACS Organic & Inorganic Au (ACS) |
2019 to present | Associate Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS) |
2019 to present | Editorial Advisory Boards, Organic Biomolecular Chemistry (RSC ) |
2019 to present | Editorial Advisory Boards, European Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley) |
2019 | Guest editor ChemPhotoChem (Wiley for special issue in photoredox catalysis) |
2018 to present | Board of Reviewing Editors, Science (AAAS) |
2018 to present | Editor for the 4th edition of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry (CHEC IV) |
2016 to present | Editorial Advisory Board Member, Organic Letters (ACS) |
2016 – 2019 | Editorial Board Members, Organic Biomolecular Chemistry (RSC ) |
2015 – 2019 | Editor-in-Chief of ISTE Open Science Journal : Organocatalysis field |
2015 to present | Member of executive committee of ICSN |
Head of the Department of Organic Synthesis and Catalytic Methods at ICSN | |
Member of the scientific committee of PCAS (Chemical industry) | |
2018 – 2019 | Organizer of the Conference at ICSN |
2015 – 2019 | President of SCF-IDF (French Chemical Society of “Ile de France)” |
2012 – 2014 | Scientific advisor of the Department of Organic Synthesis and Catalytic Methods |
2011 – 2015 | Organizer of the Conference at ICSN |
2011 – 2015 | Member of the COST Action Organocatalysis CM0905 |
2011 to present | Member of Laboratory of Excellence Labex CHARMMMAT |
2011 to present | Head of POWER’s group |
2011 – 2012 | Nominated Council Member of Laboratory at ICSN |
2015 to present | 2nd level Master’s course at Ecole Polytechnique: Modern Catalysis |
2015 to present | 2nd level Master’s course University Paris Sud: Multicomponent reactions |
2015 | 2nd level Master’s course ENSCP-Chimie ParisTech : Brønsted Acid Catalysis |
2011 – 2016 | Lectures at PhD levels at the universities and industries on the topic of Multicomponent reactions, Organocatalysis and Photocatalysis |
2000 – 2003 | Tutorial and practical courses (synthetic organic chemistry and kinetic courses at the BSc and MSc levels) University of Grenoble |

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