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We are a research group called Synthetic Chemistry in Flow - SCiFLOW under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christophe Len within the Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (i-CLeHS UMR CNRS 8060) in Chimie ParisTech. The focus of our research lies on the development of alternative tools applied to organic chemistry, catalysis and new technologies. The emphasis on continuous flow associated with other different activation processes such as microwave, ultrasound, ball-milling is the main objective. He has a strong interest to build a bridge between academic and industrial researches for the production of chemicals, fuels and materials from chemical and wastes.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

February 2026
Pr Marcus Bauman (University College of Dublin, Ireland) delivers a conference titled "Flow Synthesis as a Technology Platform for Greener Chemistry Case Studies in Photochemistry Biocatalysis and Grignard Reactions ". 

November 2025
Pr Boopathy Gnanaprakasam (University of Pune, India) delivers a conference titled "Sustainable macrocyclisation
using continuous-flow catalysis". 

November 2025
Pr Boopathy Gnanaprakasam (University of Pune, India) delivers a conference titled "Sustainable chemical transformations
using continuous flow". 

October 2025
Pr Pedro Maireles Torres (University of Malaga, Spain) delivers a conference titled "From agricultural residues to value-added chemicals". 

June 2019
Congratulation to Ms Qing Liu for her successful PhD defence.

October 2024
Welcome: The Len group welcomes its new PhD student Romain Torlotin.
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Latest Five Publications


1. "Efficient synthesis of ethylique levulinate from furfural alcohol using several biomass-based carbon". K. Li, Q. Si, G. Wu, G. Liu, W. Jiang, D. Zhao, T. Su, H. Zhang, Z. Yang, C. Len, B. He - DOI


2. "Schottky barrier-mediated charge separation in a MXene/ZnIn2S4 heterojunction for enhanced photocatalytic HMF-to-DFF conversion". C. Sun, R. Bi, C. Song, D. Zhao, Z. Zhu, K. Yang, C. Len, H. Lu, T. Su - DOI


3. " Efficient production of ethyl levulinate from furfuryl alcohol using spherical PMoV-TiO2 catalyst". K. Li, Q. Si, D. Zhao, T. Su, W. Jiang, H. Zhang, H. Yang, Z. Yang, C. Len - DOI


4. " Batch and continuous flow mechanochemical selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol in deep eutectic solvent starting exclusively from solids". Q. Liu, R. Nguyen, I. Malpartida, C. Len - DOI


5. " Synergistic effects in Ce-V Co-doped TiO2 nano-catalysts for furfural hydrogenation: a comparative study with Zr-doped analogues". K. Li, Q. Si, G. Wu, D. Zhao, T. Su, W. Ouyang, C. Len, H. Zhang, Z. Yang - DOI