The project ChemAI is one of the five projects labelled ANR in 2025 and led by CEISAM laboratory. With ChemAI, François-Xavier Felpin aims to make AI-assisted chemical reaction optimization fully accessible to synthetic and process chemists by developing methods that are faster and more efficient with less experimental data. Chemistry, particularly synthetic chemistry, is undergoing...
The project MetaHyp is one of the five projects labelled ANR in 2025 and led by CEISAM laboratory. With MetaHyp, Patrick Giraudeau aims to develop new ultra-sensitive NMR approaches for metabolomics, by developping new analytical approaches based on dynamic nuclear polarization, applied to the detection of biomarkers of clinical pathologies. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy...
With her project SEEAFM, Estelle Lebègue, a lecturer-researcher at the CEISAM laboratory, has been selected as a laureate of the Emergence@INC 2026 call for projects. Through this scheme, CNRS Chemistry supports researchers—research fellows or associate professors recruited within the past 5 to 10 years—by funding innovative projects and encouraging scientific risk-taking. The SEEAFM project aims...
Morgane Vacher, CNRS research fellow at the CEISAM laboratory, is one of five winners of the 2025 Joséphine Awards presented by the Pays de la Loire Region. With the Joséphine Awards, the Pays de la Loire Region celebrates women with inspiring careers in a variety of fields (defence, research, artificial intelligence, sport and solidarity). The...
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...
It will be our great pleasure to welcome three colleagues who will be giving a seminar at the occasion of Federico ZIZZI’s PhD defense. Their seminars will be delivered through a pluridisciplinary mini-symposium on Wed. 10 December, from 10:00 am till 12:00 pm, in the Marie Curie room (CEISAM). The program is detailed below :
Maurice Médebielle (ICBMS Lyon), “Electrochemical and photoredox-catalyzed approaches for the synthesis of gem-difluorinated polycyclic scaffolds” and Suzanne Peyrottes (IBMM Montpellier), “Mononucleotide prodrug approaches: Success stories (or not) and new developments” will give a lecture on Wednesday, December 17 at 9:30 a.m. in the Marie-Curie room. Maurice Médebielle Suzanne Peyrotte
On Wednesday, November 26, at 10:30 a.m. in the Marie Curie room at Ceisam, Cyril Poriel (ISCR, Rennes) will give a seminar entitled “Pure Hydrocarbon Hosts for High Performance Phosphorescent OLEDs: A new molecular concept for Organic Electronics.”
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, 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...