Post-Doc, School of Chemistry
About
Developing greener processes for the sustainable production of valuable materials for medical, biological, or chemical applications has been a great challenge for chemists. Of the various manufacturing technologies developed so far, catalytic processes are particularly appealing as a means of waste minimization/recovery, for environmental and economic reasons. I am currently Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia, working jointly with Prof. Philip C. B. Page and Dr. Chris J. Richards on the development of novel chiral organic, and organometallic catalytic systems of industrial interest in asymmetric synthesis.
Curriculum Vitae:
- 2010-Present: Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia
- 2009: Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Steven P. Nolan at the University of St Andrews (UK)
- 2007-2008: Research Fellow in the group of the late Prof. Pascal Le Floch at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) - NEST Adventure STREP Project artizyme (contract no. FP6-2003-NEST-B3 15471)
- 2001-2007: DPhil/Visiting Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Véronique Gouverneur at the University of Oxford (UK) - EPSRC DPhil Studentship 2001-2004 (GR/N34901/01)
- 2001: MSc in Organic Chemistry in the group of Prof. Giovanni Poli at the University of Paris 06 (Paris, France)
- 2000: Maîtrise de Chimie Organique (MSci/MChem equivalent) in the group of Prof. Claude Agami at the University of Paris 06 (Paris, France)
- 1999: Licence de Chimie (BSc equivalent) at the University of Paris 06 (Paris, France)
Selected Seminars:
-Bisaro, F. and Le Floch, P. Synthesis of phosphole derivatives of tyrosine and phenylalanine. Meeting “Artizymes”. March 20, 2008. Toulouse, France
-Bisaro, F. and Gouverneur, V. Desymmetrization by metathesis, producing enantioenriched P-stereogenic phosphine oxides. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005, ORGN-321 (oral communication)
-Bisaro, F. and Gouverneur, V. Synthesis of chiral phosphorus compounds using olefin metathesis. Chemical Biology Science Meeting. December 15, 2004. Oxford, UK
Selected References:
-Bisaro, F. and Le Floch, P. Incorporation of Phosphole Moieties into the Side Chain of Tyrosine and Phenylalanine. Accepted for publication in Synlett (2010)
-Akzinnay, S., Bisaro, F. and Cazin, C. S. J. Highly efficient catalytic hydrodehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Chem. Commun. 2009, 5752-5753
-Bisaro, F. and Gouverneur, V. Desymmetrization by direct cross-metathesis producing hitherto unreachable P-stereogenic phosphine oxides. Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 2395-2400
-Bisaro, F., Prestat, G., Vitale, M. and Poli, G. Alkylation of active methylenes via benzhydryl cations. Synlett 2002, 1823-1826
Affiliations:
-American Chemical Society
-Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Fellowships:
-Marie Curie individual Intra-European Fellowship (PIEF-GA-2008-221437)
