LSO. Organic Synthesis Laboratory A joint research unit CNRS, ENSTA Paris, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France. LSO develops innovative chemical tools to rise to the challenges of life sciencesand environmental and material sciences. Research areas New methods in organic synthesis Synthetic chemistryand biological interfaces Key figures 7 Permanent researchers 6 Postdoctoral students 9 PhD students 20 Average number of publications per year > read more > read more discover the LSO website > discover the LSO website > Chemistry Its main areas of research are compounds with promising biological activities (natural products, pharmaceutical or agrochemical compounds) or attractive physical properties (applications for materials, functional polymers, etc.) The research teams are highly regarded for their work in the fields of radical chemistry, multicomponent reactions, natural product synthesis and organometallic titanium chemistry, the development of new cycloaddition reactions and catalysis.