مؤلف: Francois Terrier

Francois Terrier obtained his Ph D from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1968. After postdoctoral research with Prof. Bernasconi at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was appointed Professor at the University of Rouen. In 1991, he moved to the University of Versailles, where he held a Professorship of Organic Chemistry until 2007. His research is focused on various topics dealing with reactivity and physical organic chemistry, namely nucleophilic aromatic substitutions and sigma-complexation processes, alpha-effect nucleophiles and proton transfers at carbon. He has published over 200 papers, as well as a number of book chapters and review articles.