Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques - UMR5626

The PTC group gathers 5 members of staff and 3 PhD students around various aspects of theoretical and computational photochemistry.

Alexis Grosjean (PhD student), Isabelle Dixon (CR), Marie-Catherine Heitz (MCF), Martial Boggio-Pasqua (DR), Josep Alberola Boloix (PhD student), Nicolas Issot (PhD student), Fábris Kossoski (CR), Fabienne Alary (PR)

The LCPQ has always worked hard to increase the size and complexity of molecular systems studied with quantum chemical methods. Research undertaken in the PTC group perfectly fits in this framework by studying ever more complex systems. Another orientation of the scientific strategy of the LCPQ is to strengthen interactions with experimental scientists. For many years, theoreticians have got largely involved in methodological developments targetting the study of chemical reactivity. We are now starting to have efficient tools to describe such phenomena. Theory has long been limited to the a posteriori rationalization of experiments; we use it more and more as a predictive tool and it should nowadays be viewed as an essential partner of experiment.

The PTC group is interested in more and more complex systems displaying photophysical or photochemical properties, in very strong relationship with experimental chemists.