Prof. Bastien Nay

Associate Editor

Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique
Ecole Polytechnique
Palaiseau
France

Scientific career

Since 2017	CNRS researcher (Directeur de recherche) at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
2004 - 2016	CNRS researcher as Chargé de recherche at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, appointed Directeur de recherche (a full professor equivalent at CNRS) in 2014
2003	Postdoc at Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (with C. Poupat)
2001 – 2002	Postdoc at the University of Nottingham, UK (with J. S. Clark)
2000	PhD in Organic Chemistry, University of Toulouse, France (with J. Vercauteren)
1998	Thesis of Pharmacy, University of Bordeaux, France

 

Research areas

Bastien Nay's research topics focus on total synthesis, together with methodological developments and biological applications. Methodologies of interest include the rapid generation of complexity and diversity by bio-inspired strategies, late-stage functionalization with medicinal perspectives, cycloadditions and cascade reactions. Outreaches are naturally found in chemical biology, medicinal chemistry or natural history.

 

Thematic issue

Prof. Nay edited the following thematic issue in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry:

Total synthesis: an enabling science

 

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