Marie-Pierre Santoni

Education and Diploma

2001-2006 DEUG, Licence and Master in Chemistry from Université Paris VI
2006-2010 Doctorat and PhD – «cotutelle de thèse» Inorganic Chemistry Université Paris VI et Université de Montréal (mention Très Honorable)

Under supervision by Pr. Bernold Hasenknopf (Paris) and Pr. Garry Hanan (Montréal)

Polyoxométallates hybrides : vers des systèmes covalents photoactifs dans le visible

Professional experience

(i)SEPT 2010 - OCT 2011
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University Sweden- Pr. Leif Hammarström and Dr. Sascha Ott
Polyoxotungstate-based molecular catalysts for photo-driven water oxidation
Additional research task: crystallography (resolution of molecular structures by X-ray diffraction on monocrystals)

(ii)MAY-JUNE AND NOV-DEC 2011
Post-doctoral fellow “Visiting Scholar”- Fulbright program, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, United States (4 months) - Pr. Richard Eisenberg; Supramolecular assemblies for the photo-reduction of protons and solar energy conversion

(iii) SINCE APRIL 2012
Post-doctoral fellow, Università di Messina, Italia - Pr. Sebastiano Campagna
Supramolecular assemblies for modified photoanodes in photoelectrochemical cells: toward solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis

Additional research task: Design of coupled light harvesting / reaction centers supramolecular systems

Peer-reviewed publications
(1) Santoni, M.-P. C.; Fang, Y.-Q.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « Diethyl 4-(4-tert-butylphenyl)pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate » Acta Crystrallographica 2007, E63, o2560–o2562.
(2) Santoni, M.-P. C.; Yu, S. H.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « 5-Phenyl-2-(4-pyridyl)pyrimidine » Acta Crystrallographica 2008, E64, o584.
(3) Cooke, M. W.; Santoni, M.-P.; Hanan, G. S.; Loiseau, F.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « Spanning Pairs of Rh2(acetate)4 Units with Ru(II) Complexes » Inorganic Chemistry 2008, 47, 6112–6114.
(4) Nastasi, F.; Loiseau, F.; Campagna, S.; Medlycott, E. A.; Santoni, M.-P.; Hanan, G. S. « Synthesis and photophysical properties of naphthyl-, phenanthryl-, and pyrenyl-appended bis(pyridyl)triazine ligands and their Zn(II) and Ru(II) complexes » Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2009, 87, 254–263.
(5) Santoni, M.-P.; Medlycott, E. A.; Hanan, G. S.; Hasenknopf, B.; Proust, A.; Nastasi, F.; Campagna, S.; Chiorboli, C.; Argazzi, R.; Scandola, F. « Photoinduced energy transfer in a rod-like dinuclear Ru(II) complex containing bis-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine ligands » Dalton Transactions 2009, 3964–3970. Special issue “Supramolecular photochemistry”.
(6) Cooke, M. W.; Santoni, M.-P. C.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « A divergent strategy for covalently-tethered (tpy)2Ru(II) systems based on Rh2(N,N'-diphenylbenzamidinates)4 » Dalton Transactions 2009, 3671–3673.
(7) Santoni, M.-P.; Pal, A.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « Paramagnetic Ru(III) complexes of tridentate ligands : characterization of useful intermediates for heteroleptic complexes » Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2010, 14, 399–402.
(8) Friese, V.; Nag, S.; Wang, J.; Santoni, M.-P.; Rodrigue-Witchel, A.; Hanan, G. S.; Schaper, F. « Red phosphorescence in Ru(II) complexes of a tridentate N-heterocyclic carbene ligand incorporating tetrahydropyrimidine » European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 39–44.
(9) Santoni, M.-P.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B.; Nastasi, F.; Serroni, S.; Campagna, S. « Dinuclear Ru(II) complexes of bis-(dipyrid-2’-yl)triazine ligands as efficient electron reservoirs » Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 3586–3588. Among the top 10 on line articles in feb 2011.
http://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2011/03/30/top-ten-most-accessed-articles-in-february/
(10) Öberg, E.; Geng, X.-L.; Santoni, M.-P.; Ott, S. « C,C-diacetylenic phospha-alkenes in Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions » Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2011, 9, 6246-6255.
(11) Santoni, M.-P.; Pal, K. A.; Hanan, G. S.; Proust, A.; Hasenknopf, B. « Discrete covalent organic-inorganic hybrids: terpyridine functionalized polyoxometalates obtained by a modular strategy and their metal complexation » Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 6737-6745.
(12) Beyler, M.; Ezzaher, S.; Karnahl, M.; Santoni, M.-P.; Lomoth, R.; Ott, S. « Penta-coordinate iron complexes as functional models of the distal iron in [FeFe]-hydrogenases » Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 11662-11664. Special issue “Artificial photosynthesis”.
(13) Santoni, M.-P.; Pal, K. A.; Hanan, G. S.; Tang, M.-C.; Venne, K.; Furtos, A.; Menard-Tremblay, P.; Malveau, C.; Hasenknopf, B. « Coordination-driven self-assembly of polyoxometalates into discrete supramolecular triangles » Chemical Communications 2012, 48, 200-202. “Chem. Comm. Hot paper” – 31/10/2011
(14) Arkhypchuk, A. I.; Santoni, M.-P.; Ott, S. « Revisiting the Phospha-Wittig-Horner Reaction » Organometallics 2012, 31, 1118–1126.
(15) Arkhypchuk, A. I.; Santoni, M.-P.; Ott, S. « Cascade reactions forming highly substituted, conjugated phospholes and 1,2-oxaphospholes » Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7776–7780.
CV Marie-Pierre Santoni, Università degli Studi di Messina
Doctorat and Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry 2010
From Université Paris VI and Université de Montréal
(16) Karnahl, M.; Tschierlei, S.; Erdem, Ö. F.; Pullen, S.; Santoni, M.-P.; Reijerse, E. J.; Lubitz, W.; Ott, S. « Mixed-valence [Fe(I)Fe(II)] hydrogenase active site model complexes stabilized by a bidentate carborane bis-phosphine ligand » Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 12468–12477.
(17) Öberg, E.; Orthaber, A.; Santoni, M.-P.; Ott, S. « Towards metathesis reactions on vinylphospha-alkenes » P, S, and Si and the Related Elements 2012, DOI: 10.1080/10426507.2012.743145.
(18) Santoni, M.-P.; Nastasi, F.; Campagna, S.; Hanan, G. S.; Hasenknopf, B.; Ciofini, I. « Understanding redox properties of dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes by a joint experimental and theoretical analysis » Dalton Transactions 2013, 42, 5281 – 5291.
(19) Parada, G. A.; Fredin, L. A.; Santoni, M.-P.; Jäger, M.; Lomoth, R.; Hammarström, L.; Johansson, O.; Persson, P.; Ott, S. « Bis(tridentate)Ru(II) complexes with long-lived excited-states: modifications to the ligand skeleton beyond classical EDG- or EWG- decorations » Inorg. Chem., 2013, 52, 5128−5137.
(20) Lissau, J.; Nauroozi, D.; Santoni, M.-P.; Ott, S.; Gardner, J.; Morandeira, A. «Anchoring energy acceptors to nanostructured ZrO2 enhances photon upconversion by sensitized Triplet-Triplet Annihilation under simulated solar flux » accepted J. Phys. Chem. C.
Poster Prizes
(a) Santoni, M.-P.; Hanan, G. S.; Hasenknopf, B.; Campagna, S. et al. « Tuning photophysical properties in rod-like dinuclear Ru(II) complexes using terpyridine and bis-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine ligands: from photoinduced energy transfer to increased excited-state lifetimes » International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds 2009, Sapporo, 03-09/07/09.
(b) Santoni, M.-P.; Hanan, G. S.; Hasenknopf, B.; Proust, A. « Polyoxometalates functionnalized by terpyridine motif: toward complexation of transition metals for charge-transfer hybrids design » Journées de Chimie de Coordination 2009, Université de Champagne-Ardenne, 22/01/09 (french division Coordination Chemistry).