Yazar: Francois Terrier

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