2013-present | Directeur de recherche CNRS, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, University Paris-Saclay (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). |
2009 | Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR). |
2005-2013 | CNRS research associate, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, University Paris-Saclay (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). |
2001-2005 | CNRS research associate, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie Paris (ENSCP-Paris, France). |
1999-2001 | Postdoctoral fellow, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champain with Pr. Scott E. Denmark (Urbana, IL, USA). |
1996-1999 | Ph.D. student, University Paris XI, Dr Jieping Zhu (ICSN-Faculté d’Orsay, France) |
Organometallic catalysis (Pd, Cu) and asymmetric organocatalysis (chiral phosphoric acids)
Tandem reaction – Heterocycle synthesis – Total Synthesis.
52 publications – 4 book chapters – 3 patents
8 oral communications and conferences,
[1] Gerfaud, T.; Neuville, L.; Zhu, J. ”Palladium-Catalyzed Annulation Reaction of Acyloximes with Arynes (or Alkynes): Synthesis of Functionalized Phenanthridines” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 572-577.
[2] Li, J.; Benard, S.; Neuville, L.; Zhu, J. ”Copper Catalyzed N-Arylation of Amidines with Aryl Boronic Acids and One-Pot Synthesis of Benzimidazoles by a Chan–Lam–Evans N-Arylation and C–H Activation/C–N Bond Forming Process” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5980-5983.
[3] Piou, T.; Bunescu, A.; Wang, Q.; Neuville, L.; Zhu, J. ” Palladium-Catalyzed Through-Space C(sp3)-H and C(sp2)-H Bond Activation by 1,4-Palladium Migration: Efficient Synthesis of [3,4]-Fused Oxindoles” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 12385-12389
[4] Erb, W.; Grassot, J.-M.; Linder, D.; Neuville, L.; Zhu, J.” Enantioselective Synthesis of Putative Lipiarmycin Aglycon Related to Fidaxomicin/Tiacumicin B” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1929-1932.
[5] Gelis, C.; Levitre, G.; Merad, J.; Retailleau, P.; Neuville, L.; Masson, G. “Highly diastereo- and enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclo-Hepta[b]indoles via Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed (4+3)-Cycloaddition” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12121-12125.
ICSN: Member of the conferences organizing committee.

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