Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles

Jacques Royer is Director of Research at the CNRS. He is currently the head of a laboratory of medicinal chemistry at the University Paris Descartes. He got his PhD at the University of Paris-Sud Orsay, and worked for 18 years at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette in the group of Prof. Henri-Philippe Husson. His research areas are asymmetric synthesis of natural products and more particularly alkaloids, amino alcohols and amino acids as well as original methods of synthesis including electrosynthesis. He is the author of about 100 publications in international renowned journals.