Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
	Sauvage at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
Born	21 October 1944 (age 79); Paris, France
Nationality	French
Education	ECPM Strasbourg
Awards	French Academy of Sciences (1990); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry
Institutions	Strasbourg University
Thesis	Les Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles et leur cryptates (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967.^[3] He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.

Biography

Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944,^[4] and earned his PhD degree from the Université Louis-Pasteur under the supervision of Jean-Marie Lehn, himself a 1987 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During his doctoral work, he contributed to the first syntheses of the cryptand ligands.^[5] After postdoctoral research with Malcolm L. H. Green, he returned to Strasbourg, where he is now emeritus professor.

Sauvage's scientific work has focused on creating molecules that mimic the functions of machines by changing their conformation in response to an external signal.^[6]

His Nobel Prize work was done in 1983, when he was the first to synthesize a catenane, a complex of two interlocking ring-shaped molecules, which were bonded mechanically rather than chemically. Because these two rings can move relative to each other, the Nobel Prize cited this as a vital initial effort towards making molecular machine. The other two recipients of the prize followed up by later creating a rotaxane and a molecular rotor.^[7]^[8]

Other research includes electrochemical reduction of CO₂ and models of the photosynthetic reaction center.^[9]

A large theme of his work is molecular topology, specifically mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures. He has described syntheses of catenanes and molecular knots based on coordination complexes.^[10]

He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences on 26 March 1990, and became a member on 24 November 1997. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg (Unistra).^[11]

He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines" with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.^[12]^[13]^[7]^[14] He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.^[15]

As of 2021^[update], Sauvage has an h-index of 109 according to Google Scholar^[16] and of 100 according to Scopus.^[17]

References

^ Cesario, M.; Dietrich-Buchecker, C. O.; Guilhem, J.; Pascard, C.; Sauvage, J. P. (1985). "Molecular structure of a catenand and its copper(I) catenate: complete rearrangement of the interlocked macrocyclic ligands by complexation". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (5). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 244. doi:10.1039/c39850000244. ISSN 0022-4936.
^ Albrecht-Gary, A. M.; Meyer, M.; Dietrich-Buchecker, C. O.; Sauvage, J. P.; Guilhem, J.; Pascard, C. (1993). "Dicopper (I) trefoil knots: Demetallation kinetic studies and molecular structures". Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. 112 (6). Wiley: 427–428. doi:10.1002/recl.19931120622. ISSN 0165-0513.
^ "Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel de Chimie – AICS".
^ "Jean-Pierre Sauvage – Facts". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
^ Dietrich, B.; Lehn, J. M.; Sauvage, J.P. (1969). "Les Cryptates". Tetrahedron Letters. 10 (34): 2889–92. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)88300-3.
^ "Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, Nobel laureate for chemistry". League of European Research Universities. 7 October 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b "The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Press Release". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
^ Van Noorden, Richard; Castelvecchi, Davide (5 October 2016). "World's tiniest machines win chemistry Nobel". Nature. 538 (7624): 152–153. Bibcode:2016Natur.538..152V. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20734. PMID 27734892.
^ Collin, J.P.; Sauvage, J.-P. (1989). "Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide mediated by molecular catalysts". Coord. Chem. Rev. 93 (2): 245–68. doi:10.1016/0010-8545(89)80018-9.
^ Dietrich-Buchecker, C.; Jimenez-Molero, M.C.; Sartor, V.; Sauvage, J.-P. (2003). "Rotaxanes and catenanes as prototypes of molecular machines and motors". Pure and Applied Chemistry. 75 (10): 1383–93. doi:10.1351/pac200375101383.
^ Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale (Jean-Pierre SAUVAGE), isis.unistra.fr. Retrieved 24 December 2016
^ Staff (5 October 2016). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
^ Chang, Kenneth; Chan, Sewell (5 October 2016). "3 Makers of 'World's Smallest Machines' Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
^ Davis, Nicola; Sample, Ian (5 October 2016). "live". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
^ "2019 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.
^ Jean-Pierre Sauvage publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ Jean-Pierre Sauvage publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

External links

Scholia has an author profile for Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

A Chem Soc Rev themed issue dedicated to Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Includes The master of Chemical Topology; accessed 13 October 2016.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage on Nobelprize.org