Abderrahmane Amgoune

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 57, Issue 22 p. 6380-6380 Author ProfileFree Access Abderrahmane Amgoune First published: 13 December 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201712422AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My not-so-secret passion is soccer. My favorite piece of research is the Heck reaction ...” This and more about Abderrahmane Amgoune can be found on page 6380. Abderrahmane Amgoune The author presented on this page has recently published his 10th article in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years: “A Nucleophilic Gold(III) Carbene Complex”: A. Pujol, M. Lafage, F. Rekhroukh, N. Saffon-Merceron, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, N. Nebra, M. Fustier-Boutignon, N. Mézailles, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 12264; Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 12432. Date of birth: January 30, 1979 Position: Professor, Université de Lyon E-mail: abderrahmane.amgoune@univ-lyon1.fr Homepage: http://www.icbms.fr/casyen/research/amgoune ORCID: 0000-0002-6195-1411 Education: 2003 MSc, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 2006 PhD with Profs. Jean-François Carpentier and Christophe Thomas, Université de Rennes 1 2006–2008 Postdoctoral work with Prof. Stefan Mecking, University of Konstanz 2014 Habilitation à diriger les recherches (HDR) Awards: 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; 2016 distinguished junior member of the Société Chimique de France (SCF; French Chemical Society); 2016 Young Investigator Award in Organic Chemistry, SCF Current research interests: Organometallic chemistry and homogenous catalysis; ligand design; mechanistic investigations; gold chemistry; C−H bond activation; cross-coupling reactions; biodegradable polymers Hobbies: Soccer, cinema, film production My not-so-secret passion is soccer. My favorite piece of research is the Heck reaction. The downside of my job is the administrative part that it is very time-consuming. My favorite song is Celebration (Kool & the Gang). My favorite quote is “There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path” (Morpheus). If I won the lottery, I would buy a football club (ASSE, my local soccer team, not that expensive!). When I'm frustrated, I shut myself away in order to not communicate my frustration. If I were not a scientist, I would be a sports journalist. The best advice I have ever been given is you can do serious work (in science) without taking yourself too seriously. The worst advice I have ever been given was you have to know your limits. I can never resist sour cream and onion flavored potato chips. I celebrate success by sharing a cake (or chocolatines) and a drink (a soft one) with all group members. My 5 top papers: 1“Rational development of catalytic Au(I)/Au(III) arylation involving mild oxidative addition of aryl halides”: A. Zeineddine, L. Estevez, S. Ladeira, K. Miqueu, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, Nature Commun. 2017, 8, 565. (Application of a new ligand design principle.) 2“Cationic Gold(III) Alkyl Complexes: Generation, Trapping, and Insertion of Norbornene”: F. Rekhroukh, R. Brousses, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1266; Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 1282. (Evidence for a migratory insertion process, maybe the most challenging elementary reaction with gold.) 3“Oxidative Addition of Carbon–Carbon Bonds to Gold”: M. Joost, L. Estévez, K. Miqueu, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5236; Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 5325. (Gold can surpass other transition metals for challenging C−C bond activation reactions.) 4“Facile Oxidative Addition of Aryl Iodides to Gold(I) by Ligand Design: Bending Turns on Reactivity”: M. Joost, A. Zeineddine, L. Estévez, S. Mallet-Ladeira, K. Miqueu, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 14654. (Yes gold can do it, it is just a question of ligand design. Our first contribution to an important debate on the reactivity of gold.) 5“Ring-Opening Polymerization with Zn(C6F5)2-Based Lewis Pairs: Original and Efficient Approach to Cyclic Polyesters”: E. Piedra-Arroni, C. Ladavière, A. Amgoune, D. Bourissou, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 13306. (Impressive tenacity of the PhD students to prove the formation of cyclic (co)polymers.) Volume57, Issue22May 28, 2018Pages 6380-6380 ReferencesRelatedInformation