Dr Tatiana Besset

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the winner of the 2023 RSC Fluorine Chemistry Prize is Dr Tatiana Besset (UMR6014 COBRA, CNRS, INSA ROUEN Normandie, Université Rouen Normandie). The RSC Fluorine Prize is awarded to a young researcher who has made a significant contribution to the area of fluorine chemistry and is chosen by an international panel of fluorine chemists. Dr Besset’s research focuses on the use of metal catalysed C-H activation and the development of new strategies for the synthesis of fluorinated building blocks. She has published >80 publications with recent highlights including the development of palladium catalysed (ethoxycarbonyl)difluoromethylthiolation reactions and the development of an electrophillic reagent for the direct introduction of SCF₂PO(OEt)₂ groups into molecules. Dr Besset undertook doctoral studies with Dr Andrew E. Greene at the University of Grenoble followed by postdoctoral studies with Prof. Frank Glorius (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster) and Prof. Joost N. H. Reek (University of Amsterdam). In 2012 she became a CNRS Researcher in the “Fluorinated Biomolecules Synthesis” group of Prof. Xavier Pannecoucke (Université de Rouen) and in 2017 was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Dr Besset has made a highly impactful contribution to fluorine chemistry and we are delighted to be able to award her the 2023 RSC Fluorine Chemistry Prize.