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Lusinchi J M Pietrasanta Y Robin J J Boutevin B CEREMAP Montpellier,Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie... 

Laboratoire de Chimie Organique (U.M.R. 5076), Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, 8, rue de I Ecole Normale, 34296 Montpellier Cedex 5, France E-mail taillefe cit.enscm E-mail cristau cit.enscm.fr... 

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American Cyanamid Company, 291 AT T Bell Laboratories, 356 Aston University, 409 Case Western Reserve University, 97 College de France, 37 Eastman Kodak Company, 275 Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, 201... 

Dan A. Lerner Department of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, Montpellier, France... 

Mario holds a PhD in chemistry from Palermo University (1998), the topic of his thesis being the selective oxidation of carbohydrates mentors were David Avnir in Jerusalem and Arjan de Nooy in the Netherlands. He has also studied and worked in France and Germany. In 2005 he was appointed Maitre de conferences associe at the Montpellier Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie. Between 1993 and 1994 he worked in the Netherlands, initially at the Rijks Universiteit, Leiden, and then at the TNO Food Research Institute in Zeist. In 1998 he was with Michel Vignon at the Grenoble CNRS, and in 2001 he joined Carsten Bolm s research group at Aachen Polytechnic. 

BRUNO AMEDURI and BERNARD BOUTEVIN Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, F-34296 Montpellier Cedex 5, France GERARDO CAPORICCIO Via Filiberto 13, Milan 20149, Italy FRANCINE GUIDA-PIETRASANTA, ABDELLATIF MANSERI, and AMEDliE RATSIMMETY Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, F-34296 Montpellier Cedex 5, France... 

The authors are very grateful to Dr Kenneth L. Nash (Washington State University), Dr Abdesselam Abdelouas (Ecole des Mines de Nantes), and Dr Daniel Caurant (Ecole nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris) for their constructive reviews and helpful suggestions. 

Laboratoire de Catalyse Chimie Fine et Polymeres, Ecole Nationale Superieure d Ingenieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologies, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse 31077, France. tDepartamento de Quimica Inorganica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Calle Prado de la Magdalena, 47005 Valladolid, Spain. 

A. FINIELS, P. GENESTE, M. LASPERAS, F. MARICHEZ and P. MOREAU Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Physique et Cinetique Chimique Appliquees Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier- 8, Rue de l Ecole Normale 34053 Montpellier Cedex 1 France. 

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