Odile Eisenstein#
| Membership Number: | 3318 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://ctmm.icgm.fr/spip.php?rubrique76&lang=fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012-2015 Adjunct Professor University of Oslo and Centre of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- 2004 (4 months) Miller Professor UC Berkeley
- 2003 to present Directeur de Recherche Classe exceptionnelle CNRS and Université Montpellier 2
- 1991 to 2003 Directeur de recherche 1st Classe CNRS and Université Paris-Sud (till 1996). Since 1996 CNRS and Montpellier 2
- 1988 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies Indiana University
- 1987-1988 Invited professor Indiana University
- 1985 to 1991 Directeur de Recherche 2nd Class CNRS and Université Paris-Sud
- 1979 to 1985 Chargée de Recherche CNRS and Université Paris-Sud
- 1979-1980 Nato fellow Cornell Université
- 1971 -1979 Stagiaire de recherche CNRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Activation of inert bonds (CH and C-F) by transition metal complexes
- Computational studies of structures, electronic structures and reaction pathways
- Computational studies of metal hydrides (prediction of structures, properties NMR, reactivity)
- Molecular orbitals and NBO analysis
- Grignard Reaction mechanism
- Activation of C-H bonds by MnO porphyrine complexes
- Computational chemistry for the study of organometallic species
- Analysis of NMR chemical shift and relation with reactivity and properties
- Computational studies of dihydrogen transfer reactions, activation of N2
- DFT calculations
- Computational studies of d0 alkylidene Schrock olefin metathesis reactions
- Mechanisms for water oxydation
Honours and Awards
- In France
- 2018 Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
- 2014 Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite
- 2008 Chevalier de l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur
- 1994 Silver medal Chemistry CNRS
- 1991 Prix Le Bel Société Française de Chimie
- 1991 Prix Paul Langevin, Académie des Sciences
- Outside France
- 2021 Elected International Member of the US National Academy of Science
- 2021 Elected International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Doctor Honoris Causae Technion (Israel)
- 2017 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2015 Doctor Honoris Causae University of York
- 2014 Doctor Honoris Causae University of Oslo
- 2012 Doctor Honoris Causae Université Laval (Québec)
- 2009 ACS Organometallic Award
- 2006 Elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, IAQMS
- 2005 Sir Edward Frankland Medal and Lectureship Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division
- Doctor Honoris Causae Indiana University 1998
