About Coralie
Coralie graduated from ENSCCF and Université Blaise Pascal in 2014 with major in organic chemistry after conducting research at Bayer CropSciences (Lyon, France) for her Master thesis. She then spent a year working at Spirochem AG. in Zürich (Switzerland) as a research assistant where she developed synthetic methods for spirocyclic compounds. In 2016, Coralie joined the group of Prof. Nicolai Cramer at EPFL (Switzerland), as a graduate student developing rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric C-H functionalization. After obtained her PhD degree in 2020, Coralie joined the group of Prof. Paul Chirik at Princeton University (NJ, USA), as a SNSF-funded postdoctoral fellow, studying mechanisms of iron-catalyzed transformations of feedstock olefins. She joined the SCORE team in September for a second postdoctoral stay focusing on the synthesis and study of earth-abundant metal complexes as intermediates involved into photocatalysis and electrocatalysis for challenging bond formations.
Outside the lab, Coralie enjoys surfing, climbing and birdwatching. Any fun activity that implies spending time outdoor in the mountains, in the woods or by the ocean suits her.
Research interests
Transition-metal catalysis plays a key role in the conversion of feedstock chemicals into higher value products. Coralie’s interest has focused on studying structure activity relationship of transition-metal catalysts in asymmetric C-H asymmetric functionalization and feedstock olefin dimerization. Her current research targets to understand organometallic processes involving earth-abundant metal catalysts (Ni, Ce) for sustainable and challenging N-N and C-C bond formations.
Selected publications
CS-Symmetric Pyridine(diimine) Iron Methyl Complexes for Catalytic [2+2] Cycloaddition and Hydrovinylation: Metallacycle Geometry Determines Selectivity; Duchemin, C.; Kim, J.; Chirik, P. J. JACS Au 2023, 3 , 2007–2024.
Enantioselective CpxRhIII–Catalyzed Carboaminations of Acrylates; Duchemin, C.; N. Cramer, N.; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 14129–14133.