Thus, the group expertise has now been improved in the general area of porphyrin synthesis and peripheral functionalization.  Still, our researched is oriented towards the design and use of rigid organic architectures in order to control the reactivity and the properties of metallic complexes and receptors.

The targeted metal complexes, receptors, or properties are generally inspired from the high efficiency of Nature in photinduced electron and energy transfer processes.  Our efforts are mainly directed towards the modeling of natural photoinduced transfers, conformational and reactivity changes upon ligand binding and electron transfer in hemoprotein models and synthetic receptors, self-assembling and organization of programed building molecular blocks into materials, and on the long run, molecular species for the processing of chemical or electrochemical signal.