DSCM NEWS
100 Years in Chemistry - DSCM students
Gli allievi del 1° anno di dottorato DSCM celebreranno l'anniversario del premio Nobel conferito a Niels Bohr con l'iniziativa "Niels Bohr and the atomic model: 100 years from the Nobel...
Al Dott. Gianluca Casotti il premio C.I.N.M.P.I.S. per la miglior Tesi di dottorato 2022
Il Dott. Gianluca Casotti, attualmente assegnista di ricerca presso i laboratori Molecolab/SoS&PePsy del nostro dipartimento DCCI, è stato premiato dal C.I.N.M.P.I.S., Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale di ricerca in Metodologie e Processi...
Bando per il 38° ciclo - Call for 38th cycle
Il bando per il 38° ciclo del Dottorato è stato pubblicato sul sito UNIPI https://dottorato.unipi.it/index.php/it/concorsi-d-ammissione-a-a-2022-2023/item/667.html con scadenza 8 Agosto.The call for the 38th cycle of the PhD has been published...
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Cosimo Micheletti and to our grant holder Francesco Ventura for their scientific publication entitled “Nanoporous-crystalline and amorphous films of PPO including off-on vapochromic fluorescent 7-hydroxy coumarin guests” in Polymer journal. The study examines the preparation of nanoporous-crystalline and amorphous films of poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene)oxide (PPO) containing 7-hydroxy coumarin (i.e., umbelliferone) for the detection of chloroform vapours.
Stabilized Arylzinc Iodides in Negishi Acylative Cross-Coupling: A Modular Synthesis of Chalcones.
Stabilized arylzinc iodides, synthesized by direct insertion of zinc into the corresponding halides, were used as nucleophiles into an acylative Negishi coupling reaction to synthesize chalcones. The reaction conditions were optimized to afford optimal results on a model reaction and then applied to synthesize nine compounds. Esters, chlorides, electron-rich, electron-poor and sterically hindered substrates are well tolerated and even heteroaryl derivatives can be synthesized.
Lipomyces starkeyi: una cell factory per la produzione di biodiesel di nuova generazione da canne giganti infestanti. Quarto appuntamento con il nuovo progetto DSCM di comunicazione della scienza nato dalla collaborazione con Microbiologia Italia. L’articolo divulgativo del mese di aprile è stato realizzato e curato dal Dott. Nicola Di Fidio. La transizione da un’economia basata sulle risorse fossili ad una bioeconomia è un obiettivo globale attuale volto a contrastare alcune importanti problematiche, come i cambiamenti climatici e l’inquinamento ambientale; e per ridurre la dipendenza delle attività antropiche dalle fonti fossili.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Gianni Pecorini for his book chapter entitled “Mechanical Characterization of Additive Manufactured Polymeric Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering" in the book entitled "Biomimetic Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration and Drug Delivery". In the last decades, tissue engineering has become a promising and important field of research that is opening new perspectives for the treatment of tissue diseases or injuries.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Alberto Gobbo for his scientific publication entitled “A Green Synthesis of Carbene-Metal-Amides (CMAs) and Carboline-Derived CMAs with Potent in Vitro and ex Vivo Anticancer Activity” in ChemMedChem. The synthesis of Carbene-Metal-Amide (CMA) complexes based on the coinage metals (Au, Ag, Cu) and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as ancillary ligands is improved by circumventing the use of toxic organic solvents which were previously required for their purification.
Congratulations to our PhD student Edoardo Cignoni for his perspective entitled "The atomistic modeling of light-harvesting complexes from the physical models to the computational protocol" published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. The function of light-harvesting complexes is determined by a complex network of dynamic interactions among all the different components: the aggregate of pigments, the protein, and the surrounding environment.