Didier Astruc

Didier Astruc carried out his studies in chemistry in Rennes. After a Ph.D. with professor R. Dabard in organometallic chemistry, he did post-doctoral studies with professor R. R. Schrock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the U.S. and later a sabbatical year with professor K. P. C. Vollhardt at the University of California at Berkeley. He became a CNRS Director of research in Rennes, then in 1983 full Professor of Chemistry at the University Bordeaux 1. He is known for his work on electron-reservoir complexes and dendritic molecular batteries, catalytic processes using nanoreactors and molecular recognition using gold nanoparticles and metallodendrimers.

Affiliation

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Top Publications

• Gold Nanoparticles: Assembly, Supramolecular Chemistry, Quantum-Size-Related Properties, and Applications toward Biology, Catalysis, and Nanotechnology (2003) - 12,454 citations
• Nanoparticles as Recyclable Catalysts: The Frontier between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (2005) - 3,142 citations
• Gold nanoparticles in nanomedicine: preparations, imaging, diagnostics, therapies and toxicity (2009) - 2,862 citations
• State of the Art and Prospects in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based and MOF-Derived Nanocatalysis (2019) - 2,462 citations
• The Golden Age of Transfer Hydrogenation (2015) - 1,999 citations