Wednesday 13 September 2023

Sala dei Notari

8:30 - 9:20

PL2 – Eva Rentschler
Metallacrown Complexes: Host-Guest Interaction Paving the Way for SMMs

9:20 - 9:50

KL3 – Luciano Marchiò
Structural Diversity of Lanthanide Complexes. Is it Helpful for their Separation and Recovery?

9:50 - 10:15

Coffee Break

Session 3 – Sala dei Notari

10:15 – 10:35

Ad hoc O2A – Rita Mazzoni
Ruthenium Bifunctional Based Catalytic Systems to Tune Efficency and Selectivity in Alcohol Homologation

10:35 - 10:50

OC 9A – Alessandro Caselli
Synthesis and Characterization of [Iron(III)(Pyclen)] as Catalysts for Oxygen Atom Transfer (OAT) and Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) Reactions

10:50 - 11:05

OC 10A – Benjamin Fener
S-Block Metal-Catalyzed Hydrophosphorylation of Alkynes – From Basic Research towards Oddities

11:05 - 11:20

OC 11A – Fabio Ragaini
Formic Acid as a CO Surrogate in Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Cyclization Reactions of Nitroarenes

11:20 - 11:35

OC 12A – Paolo Centomo
Acetonitrile as a Novel Selectivity Enhancer for the Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

11:35 - 11:50

OC 13A – Eros Radicchi
Strategies for Improving the Photocatalytic Performance of Nanostructured Titania in the Visible Range

11:50 - 12:05

OC 14A – Marta Stucchi
Exploring the Effect of Sn Addition to Au-Based Catalyst for Alkane Oxidation

Session 4 – Aula Magna FISSUF

10:15 - 10:35

Ad hoc O2B – Simone Dell'Acqua
Interaction between Hemin and Neuronal Peptides Relevant to Neurodegenerative Diseases and Bioinspiration for ROS Regulation

10:35 - 10:50

OC 9B – Sara La Manna
Role of Transition Metal Complexes in Modulating Amyloid Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

10:50 - 11:05

OC 10B – Daniela Valensin
The Ability of Lycorine to Interfere with Copper(II) – Amyloid b Associations

11:05 - 11:20

OC 11B – Erik De Luca
Wireframe DNA Origami as Potential Carriers for Platinum Compound in Cancer Therapy

11:20 - 11:35

OC 12B – Elisabetta Rosa
Peptide-Based Supramolecular Contrast Agents for MRI Applications

11:35 - 11:50

OC 13B – Denise Lovison
Water-Soluble Ru(II) Complexes and Ru-Micelles as Efficient Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions Involving Biomolecules

11:50 - 12:05

OC 14B – Riccardo Lucentini
Inorganic Chemistry @School: Fostering Students’ Engagement with Educational Games and Experiments

Sala dei Notari

12:10 - 13:00

PL3 – Vincenzo Busico
Ziegler-Natta Catalysts and Polypropylene: A Controversial Story

13:00 - 15:00

Lunch and Posters

Sala dei Notari

15:00 - 15:50

PL4 Nasini Medal 2023 – Matteo Mauro
Taming Metal(Loid) Complexes and their Excited States for Optoelectronics

15:50 - 16:20

KL4 – David Pearson
Catalyst Innovations in Polyethylene

16:20 - 16:50

KL5 – Giovanni Bistoni
Computational Design of Molecular Catalysts with Tailored Selectivity

16:50 - 17:10

Coffee Break

Session 5 – Sala dei Notari

17:10 - 17:35

Ad hoc O3A - Carmine Capacchione
From Mononuclear to Dinuclear Chromium(III) Complexes With [OSSO]-Type Ligands for the ROCOP of Epoxides with CO₂ and Organic Cyclic Anhydrides

17:35 - 17:50

OC 15A – Luca Guglielmero
Metal-EDTA Ionic Liquids Catalized Cycloaddition of CO₂ to Epoxides

17:50 - 18:05

OC 16A – Roberto Esposito
Catalytic Esterification of Levulinic Acid with Polyols

18:05 - 18:20

OC 17A – Roberto Gobetto
Recent Advances in Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Molecular Catalysts Functionalized on Electrode Surface

18:20 - 18:35

OC 18A – Federico Franco
Mechanistic Insights of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Catalyzed by Manganese N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

18:35 - 18:50

OC 19A – Giammarco Meloni
Exploring the Reductive CO₂ Fixation to Amines Using Stable NHC–Phenolate Copper(II) Complexes

18:50 - 19:05

OC 20A – Pietro Ostellari
Enabling Copper Circularity: a New Age for Coordination Chemistry

Session 6 – Aula Magna FISSUF

17:10 - 17:35

Ad hoc O3B – Tiziano Marzo
Unveiling the Mechanism of Action of Medicinal Inorganic Compounds: Interpretation, Challenges and Future Directions

17:35 - 17:50

OC 15B – Nicola Sargentoni
Studies of the Halogen Addition to NHC-Au Systems and on the Anticancer Activity Against Non Small Lung Cancer Cells

17:50 - 18:05

OC 16B – Matteo Boniburini
Development of Oxaliplatin Derivatives: Synthesis, Characterization and Preliminary In Vitro Activity

18:05 - 18:20

OC 17B – Ester Giorgi
New Cytotoxic Gold(I)-NHC Complexes with Potential Targeted Anticancer Activity

18:20 - 18:35

OC 18B – Stefano Scoditti
Reduction Mechanism and G‐Quadruplex DNA Binding of a Redox‐Activated Platinum(IV)–Salphen Complex

18:35 - 18:50

OC 19B – Giada Ciardullo
Incorporation of N7-Platinated Guanines into Thermus Aquaticus (TAQ) DNA Polymerase: Atomistic Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

18:50 - 19:05

OC 20B – Carlo Marotta
Synthesis and Encapsulation in Nanoparticles of New Pt(IV) Complexes Functionalized with Mitochondria-Targeting Agents

19:05 - 20:00

Poster Session