Bioinspired redox catalysis for synthetic challenges and sustainable chemistry

Marine Desage-El Murr / University of Strasbourg, France

January 29, 2026, 3:00–4:00 pm CET

Online live talk

Introduction

The exquisite efficiency of biological systems relies on the use of reactivity-enhancing tools to perform chemical reactions with unrivaled efficiency. Among these tools, redox cofactors present near metalloenzymatic active sites provide electron storage and release to assist the neighboring metal center in performing the reactions. Emulating such systems, the development of catalysts bearing redox-active ligands is a blossoming research field. We will present our results on tailoring redox-active ligand platforms to design systems that can perform selective electron transfer and redox catalysis.

 

Marine Desage-El Murr

is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg where she leads the OMECA Lab involved in the development of catalytic methodologies and reactivities inspired by biological systems. She obtained her PhD under the supervision of Dr Charles Mioskowski at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA Saclay, France). She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) before joining the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris, France) as Associate Professor. In 2017, she was appointed Professor and group leader at the University of Strasbourg. Her research interests concern organometallic and coordination chemistry, bioinspired and redox catalysis, redox cofactors, and electron transfer. She is distinguished junior member of the French Chemical Society since 2021.