CEISAM Institute
Research institute in Molecular Chemistry
UMR CNRS 6230
The CEISAM Institute (Interdisciplinary Chemistry: Synthesis, Analysis, Modelling) was founded in 2008, in order to structure Nantes Molecular Chemistry (theoretical chemistry, organic / organometallic synthesis, analytical chemistry & physicochemistry).
Latest News
Renewal of the CEISAM NMR platform ISO 9001 certification
Following an evaluation process conducted by AFNOR, the CEISAM NMR platform ISO 9001 certification (initially obtained in 2022) was renewed for 3 years in November 2025 This certification marks a commitment towards a continuous improvement approach in the service of its users. It is a recognition of the involvement of the platform’s staff in a...
A highly reactive chemical intermediate stabilised by weak interactions
Researchers at the CEISAM laboratory (CNRS/University of Nantes) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanosciences in Marseille (CINaM, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University) have succeeded in stabilising a highly reactive reaction intermediate using weak intramolecular interactions. Known as the Meisenheimer complex, this negatively charged and highly reactive intermediate has long been recognised by chemists in aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions....
Clémence Queffelec awarded the ARKEMA Prize from the Academy of Sciences
Clémence Queffelec, Senior Lecturer at Nantes University, at the Laboratory “Chemistry and Interdisciplinarity: Synthesis, Analysis, Modelling” (CEISAM), has been awarded the ARKEMA Prize by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize (€25,000), created in 2021, rewards decisive scientific advances in the development, characterisation, understanding or implementation of sustainable materials, i.e. materials whose life cycle and...
Next events
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
10:00 am Ceisam
Seminar
Fabienne Gauffre, Emilie Genin et Michel Sliwa
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
01:30 pm Ceisam
PhD Defense
Federico ZIZZI
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
02:00 pm Amphitheatre LS2N
PhD Defense
Axelle BERROU
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
9:30 am Ceisam
Conferences
Maurice Médebielle et Suzanne Peyrottes
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Our research teams
This Institute is organized into five research teams covering coherent areas of activity but which are based on different and highly complementary segments, giving rise to original transversal projects.
On the basis of fundamental and specific expertise, CEISAM is positioned in a certain number of niches of excellence at the interface with the fields of Health, Food chemistry and Materials, through privileged interactions at regional, national and international levels.
Platforms and equipment
To support our research activities, the CEISAM Institute owns many specialist equipments.
These instruments and equipment chains, sometimes intégrated into platforms, aim to synthesize, model, prepare and characterize organic or hybrid items. The European Union, the CNRS and the "Pays de la Loire" region have largely contributed to co-financing these platforms and equipments in particular in NMR, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Modeling, Optical spectroscopies and microscopy.
