Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation

Virginie Vidal is CNRS research director at Chimie ParisTech (Paris, France). Her research focuses on transition-metal catalysis and metallo-organocatalysis for atom- and step-economical reactions as well as the design of ligands for asymmetric catalysis. She was Chair of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the French Chemical Society from 2009 to 2012. Phannarath Phansavath is assistant professor in the group of Prof. J.-P. Gen't at ENSCP at Chimie ParisTech (Paris, France). Her current research interests include total synthesis of biologically relevant natural products and transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions.