Prof. Fabien Gagosz
Fabien Gagosz
Full Professor


Room
DRO 404
Phone
(613) 562-5800 ext. 4420

Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences

Biography

Dr. Gagosz’s research program focuses on the design of new catalytic tools and the development of synthetic methods in general, with a special interest for late-transition metal-catalyzed reactions and a predilection for homogeneous gold catalysis.

Selected publications

  • Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Functionalized Pyridines Using 2H-Azirines as Alkenyl Nitrenes Precursors, A. Prechter, G. Henrion, P. Faudot dit Bel, F. Gagosz Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 4959.
  • Gold-Catalyzed Tandem Cycloisomerization / Cope Rearrangement: An Efficient Access to the Hydroazulenic Motif, C. Ziping, F.Gagosz Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 9014-9018.
  • New Biarylphosphonite Gold(I) Complexes As Superior Catalysts for the Oxidative Cyclization of Propynyl Arenes into Indan-2-ones, G. Henrion, T. E. J. Chavas, X. Le Goff, F.Gagosz Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6277-6282.
  • Cu(I)-catalyzed Oxydative Cyclization of Alkynyl Epoxides and Oxetanes, C. Gronnier, S. Kramer, Y. Odabachian, F.Gagosz J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 828-831.
  • Gold- and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Hydride Shift onto Allenes: Divergence in Product Selectivity, B. Bolte, F.Gagosz J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7696-7699.

Research interests

  • Synthetic organic chemistry
  • Methodology
  • Catalysis
  • Transition metal chemistry
  • Gold
  • Carbene chemistry
  • Heterocyclic chemistry