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The Légaré Group is now online! Tune in to follow our journey towards Green Chemistry.
Our passion is to create new paradigms in chemistry.
We seek out visionary ideas and out-of-the-box thinking to fuel our research endeavors.
We use computational tools to predict the outcome of our ideas and to accelerate our understanding.
We can confidently identify targets and predict what will work.
Guided by computations, our state-of-the-art experimental work operates at maximized efficiency.
In the lab, we take our validated idea to the next level.
Visit our Research Page to get a glimpse of the problems we are currently tackling.
Prof. Marc-André Légaré was born in Morges, Switzerland, and grew up in Quebec City, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, in 2015, advised by Prof. Frédéric-Georges Fontaine. He subsequently took up a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship in the group of Prof. Holger Braunschweig at the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, in Germany.
Marc-André is the author of over 30 publications and two patents, including three papers as first author in the prestigious journal Science. His accomplishments include the development of metal-free C-H activation protocols and pioneering the field of main group dinitrogen chemistry.
He has received a number of awards, including the Star Student-Researcher Award from the Fond de Recherche Québécois and the CAS Future Leader Award. He has been Assistant Professor of Green Chemistry at McGill University since 2020.
Gabriella obtained her Bachelor's in Physics and Chemistry from McGill University. She is interested in the interface of both fields, for instance, using quantum mechanics to elucidate fundamental aspects of chemical reactivity. When not in the lab, she is either training for her next marathon, or training at her favourite rock-climbing gym.
The Légaré Group is now online! Tune in to follow our journey towards Green Chemistry.