CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details:

Name: Nicolas Vriamont
Home address: rue Léonard Lacroix, 2; 4250 Hollogne-sur-Geer ; Belgium
Date of birth: 08-06-1978
Professional status: Second year Ph. D. Student
e-mail: vriamont@chim.ucl.ac.be

Education:

1996-2002 Bachelor degree in chemistry
2002-… D.E.A. at the Université catholique de Louvain (U.C.L.)
2002-… Ph. D. degree in chemistry (supervisor: Pr. Olivier Riant)

Research topic:

2002-… Preparation of a Ph.D. degree: Design of new libraries of chiral ligands for homogeneous asymmetric catalysis. Synthesis and evaluation by high throughput experiments. Our aim is to apply the concept of genetic algorithm in the way of developing an efficient method for directed design of ligands. Indeed, our attention is focused on the reduction reaction of a carbonyl function by a metal promoted hydride transfer.

Technical skills:

Analytical methods: Gas Chromatography, NMR (1H and 13C), FT-IR, UV Spectroscopy, Polarimetry.

Computer: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Chemdraw, Literature research on Bilstein and Sciencefinder.

Languages:

English: intermediate level.
Dutch : working knowledge.

Meetings:

1 - 6th Sigma-Aldrich Organic Synthesis Meeting, Spa, 5-6th December 2002.
2 - A.M.Cat. "Acceleration and Miniaturisation in Catalysis", French-German Summer School for Research, Lyon, 1-4th July 2003.
3- 7th Sigma-Aldrich Organic Synthesis Meeting, Spa, 4-5th December 2003

Referee:

Pr. Olivier Riant
Université catholique de Louvain
Bâtiment lavoisier, Place Louis Pasteur 1,
1348 Louvain-la Neuve
Belgium
Tel :(32) 10 / 47.87.77
e-mail : riant@chim.ucl.ac.be.