Jean Marie LEHN

Curriculum vitae

In 1970 Jean-Marie Lehn became Professor of Chemistry at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and since 1979 he is Professor at the Collège de France in Paris. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his studies on the chemical basis of "molecular recognition" (i.e. the way in which a receptor molecule recognizes and selectively binds a substrate), which also plays a fundamental role in biological processes. Over the years his work led to the definition of a new field of chemistry, which he has proposed calling "supramolecular chemistry" as it deals with the complex entities formed by the association of two or more chemical species held together by non-covalent intermolecular forces, whereas molecular chemistry concerns the entities constructed from atoms linked by covalent bonds. Subsequently, the area developed into the chemistry of "self-organization" processes and more recently into "constitutional dynamic chemistry".  

Selezione delle pubblicazioni

Chemia Supramolekularna, Collection of publications by J.-M. Lehn, organised and translated into Polish under the direction of Janusz Lipkowski, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1985.  

B. Dietrich, P. Viout, J.-M. Lehn, Aspects de la Chimie des Composes Macrocycliques, CNRS Editions, 1991 

Jean-Marie Lehn, Macrocyclic Chemistry - Aspects of Organic and Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry, VCH, Weinheim, 1993  

Jean-Marie Lehn, Supramolecular chemistry: concepts and perspectives,Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 1995

Jean-Marie Lehn, André Pousse, La chimie supramoléculaire: Concepts et perspectives, De boeck Universitè, 1997

Reinhard Brückner, Jean-Marie Lehn, Mécanismes réactionnels en chimie organique, 1999

Ludovico Cademartiri, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Jean-Marie Lehn, Concepts of Nanochemistry,Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2009