Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ

sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French Jean-Pierre Sauvage
coordination chemist working at Strasbourg
University. He graduated from the National School
of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM
Strasbourg), in 1967.[3] He has specialized in
supramolecular chemistry for which he has been
awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along
with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.
Biography
Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944,[4] and earned his
PhD degree from the Université Louis-Pasteur under
the supervision of Jean-Marie Lehn, himself a 1987 Sauvage at Nobel press conference in
laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During his Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
doctoral work, he contributed to the first syntheses Born 21 October 1944
of the cryptand ligands.[5] After postdoctoral Paris, France
research with Malcolm L. H. Green, he returned to Nationality French
Strasbourg, where he is now emeritus professor.
Education ECPM Strasbourg
Sauvage's scientific work has focused on creating Awards French Academy of Sciences (1990)
molecules that mimic the functions of machines by Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016)
changing their conformation in response to an
Scientific career
external signal.[6]
Fields coordination chemistry,
His Nobel Prize work was done in 1983, when he supramolecular chemistry
was the first to synthesize a catenane, a complex of Institutions Strasbourg University
two interlocking ring-shaped molecules, which were
Thesis Les Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles et
bonded mechanically rather than chemically.
leur cryptates (https://www.tib.eu/en/
Because these two rings can move relative to each search/id/TIBKAT%3A499936833/L
other, the Nobel Prize cited this as a vital initial es-Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles-et-l
effort towards making molecular machine. The other eur-cryptates/) (1971)
two recipients of the prize followed up by later
Doctoral Jean-Marie Lehn
creating a rotaxane and a molecular rotor.[7][8]
advisor
Other research includes electrochemical reduction of
CO2 and models of the photosynthetic reaction center.[9]
A large theme of his work is molecular topology,
specifically mechanically-interlocked molecular
architectures. He has described syntheses of catenanes and
molecular knots based on coordination complexes.[10]
He was elected a correspondent member of the French

Academy of Sciences on 26 March 1990, and became a
member on 24 November 1997. He is currently emeritus
professor at the University of Strasbourg (Unistra).[11]
He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the Crystal structure of a catenane reported by
design and synthesis of molecular machines" with Sir J. Sauvage and coworkers in the Chem.
Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.[12][13][7][14] He was Commun., 1985, 244–247.[1]
elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of
Sciences in April 2019.[15]
As of 2021, Sauvage has an h-index of 109 according to

Google Scholar[16] and of 100 according to Scopus.[17]
References
1. Cesario, M.; Dietrich-Buchecker, C. O.; Guilhem,
J.; Pascard, C.; Sauvage, J. P. (1985). "Molecular
structure of a catenand and its copper(I) catenate: Crystal structure of a molecular trefoil knot
complete rearrangement of the interlocked with two copper(I) templating ions bound
macrocyclic ligands by complexation". Journal of within it reported by Sauvage and
the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications coworkers in Recl. Trav. Chim. Pay. B.,
(5). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 244. 1993, 427–428.[2]
doi:10.1039/c39850000244 (https://doi.org/10.103
9%2Fc39850000244). ISSN 0022-4936 (https://se
arch.worldcat.org/issn/0022-4936).
2. Albrecht-Gary, A. M.; Meyer, M.; Dietrich-
Buchecker, C. O.; Sauvage, J. P.; Guilhem, J.;
Pascard, C. (1993). "Dicopper (I) trefoil knots:
Demetallation kinetic studies and molecular
structures". Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des
Pays-Bas. 112 (6). Wiley: 427–428.
doi:10.1002/recl.19931120622 (https://doi.org/10.1
002%2Frecl.19931120622). ISSN 0165-0513 (http
s://search.worldcat.org/issn/0165-0513).
3. "Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel de Chimie – AICS" (h
ttp://asso-aics.unistra.fr/accueil/jean-pierre-sauvag
e.html).
4. "Jean-Pierre Sauvage – Facts" (https://www.nobelp
rize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/sau
vage-facts.html). Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October
2016.
5. Dietrich, B.; Lehn, J. M.; Sauvage, J.P. (1969). "Les Cryptates". Tetrahedron Letters. 10
(34): 2889–92. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)88300-3 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0040-403
9%2801%2988300-3).
6. "Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, Nobel laureate for chemistry" (https://web.a
rchive.org/web/20161010130829/http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/jean-pierre-sauv
age-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry/). League of European Research
Universities. 7 October 2016. Archived from the original (http://www.leru.org/index.php/publi
c/news/jean-pierre-sauvage-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry) on 10
October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
7. "The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Press Release" (https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_pri
zes/chemistry/laureates/2016/press.html). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 5 October
2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
8. Van Noorden, Richard; Castelvecchi, Davide (5 October 2016). "World's tiniest machines
win chemistry Nobel" (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature.2016.20734). Nature. 538 (7624):
152–153. Bibcode:2016Natur.538..152V (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016Natur.538..
152V). doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20734 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature.2016.20734).
PMID 27734892 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27734892).
9. Collin, J.P.; Sauvage, J.-P. (1989). "Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide mediated by
molecular catalysts". Coord. Chem. Rev. 93 (2): 245–68. doi:10.1016/0010-8545(89)80018-
9 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0010-8545%2889%2980018-9).
10. Dietrich-Buchecker, C.; Jimenez-Molero, M.C.; Sartor, V.; Sauvage, J.-P. (2003). "Rotaxanes
and catenanes as prototypes of molecular machines and motors" (https://doi.org/10.1351%2
Fpac200375101383). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 75 (10): 1383–93.
doi:10.1351/pac200375101383 (https://doi.org/10.1351%2Fpac200375101383).
11. Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale (Jean-Pierre SAUVAGE) (https://isis.unistra.fr/labor
atoire-de-chimie-organo-minerale-jean-pierre-sauvage/), isis.unistra.fr. Retrieved 24
December 2016
12. Staff (5 October 2016). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016" (https://www.nobelprize.org/no
bel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/press.html). Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October
2016.
13. Chang, Kenneth; Chan, Sewell (5 October 2016). "3 Makers of 'World's Smallest Machines'
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry" (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/science/nobel-priz
e-chemistry.html). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
14. Davis, Nicola; Sample, Ian (5 October 2016). "live" (https://www.theguardian.com/science/liv
e/2016/oct/05/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2016-to-be-announced-live). The Guardian.
Retrieved 5 October 2016.
15. "2019 NAS Election" (http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2019-nas-electio
n.html). National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.
16. Jean-Pierre Sauvage (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iMjM92AAAAAJ)
publications indexed by Google Scholar
17. Jean-Pierre Sauvage (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=35515477700)
publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
External links
A Chem Soc Rev themed issue (http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/CS/Article.asp?Type
=Issue&JournalCode=CS&Issue=6&Volume=38&SubYear=2009) dedicated to Professor
Jean-Pierre Sauvage on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Includes The master of Chemical
Topology (http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayHTMLArticleforfree.cfm?Journal
Code=CS&Year=2009&ManuscriptID=b819336n&Iss=6); accessed 13 October 2016.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/931) on Nobelprize.org
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