Fabienne obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Lyon (ESCIL now CPE Lyon & UCBL) and completed her MSc’s research under the supervision of Dr Jean-Marie Basset (CNRS, Lyon), working in the field of organometallic chemistry. She then moved to Strasbourg to pursue doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr Pierre Albrecht (CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur), working on Organic Geochemistry. After obtaining her PhD degree in 1990, she joined the group of Dr Pierre Gallezot (IRCELyon) as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked on the oxidation of glyoxal into glyoxylic acid by heterogeneous catalysis in collaboration with the company Hoechst France. In 1991, she was appointed CNRS researcher. In 1999, she received the bronze medal of CNRS.
Since 2000, she belongs to the group of Prof. Olivier Piva (UCBL).
Outside of the lab, Fabienne enjoys playing guitar, reading, cooking and playing sports.
Since she entered the CNRS Fabienne has dedicated a large part of her researches to Atom Economy. Therefore, she developed heterogeneous catalytic methods for organic chemistry, asymmetric catalytic systems, tandem reactions, and methodologies in non-conventional media (ionic liquids, new solvents …) and applied them in total synthesis. Recently, she started working with atmospheric chemists, to try to understand the mechanism of degradation of terpenes released by plants.
“Green chemistry: solvent- and metal-free Prins cyclization. Application to sequential reactions”, D. Clarisse, B. Pelotier, O. Piva and F. Fache*, Chem. Commun., 48, 157 (2012).
“First example of the use of biosourced alkyl levulinates as solvent for synthetic chemistry : application to the heterogeneously catalyzed Heck coupling” R. Marcel, T. Durillon, L. Djakovitch, F. Fache,* F. Rataboul*,ChemistrySelect, 4, 3329-3333 (2019).
“Reactions of organic peroxy radicals, RO2, with substituted and biogenic alkenes at room temperature: unsuspected sinks for some RO2 in the atmosphere” B. Noziere*, F. Fache. Chem. Sci., 12, 11676-83 (2021).