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Alessandro Dondoni

Alessandro Dondoni

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
15539
World Ranking
8355
National Ranking
216

Overview

Alessandro Dondoni is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy, with a research focus centered on multiple disciplines within chemistry and related biological sciences. Their body of work includes contributions to the fields of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The primary subfields of study for Dondoni include Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Aquatic Science. Their research topics largely revolve around Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Click Chemistry and Applications, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, as well as Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds.

Throughout their career, Dondoni has published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Molbank
  • Synlett

Notable recent papers include:

  • Selected Research Topics of the Dondoni Group over the Last Two Decades (2000-2020), 2020, Synlett
  • Thiazolylketol Acetates as Glycosyl Donors: Stereoselective Synthesis of a C-Ketoside, 2024, Molbank
  • (1R)-2,3,4,6-Tetra-O-benzyl-1-C-allyl-1-deoxy-1-C-(2-thiazolyl)-d-galactopyranose, 2025, Molbank

Dondoni has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, most notably Clark Ferrari and Alberto Marra, each of whom has co-authored multiple papers with Dondoni.

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric Organocatalysis: From Infancy to Adolescence

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi

  • The Emergence of Thiol–Ene Coupling as a Click Process for Materials and Bioorganic Chemistry

    Alessandro Dondoni

  • Asymmetrische Organokatalyse: Eintritt in die Reifezeit†

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi

  • Recent applications of thiol–ene coupling as a click process for glycoconjugation

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alberto Marra

  • Triazole: the keystone in glycosylated molecular architectures constructed by a click reaction.

    Alessandro Dondoni

  • Design and synthesis of new classes of heterocyclic C-glycoconjugates and carbon-linked sugar and heterocyclic amino acids by asymmetric multicomponent reactions (AMCRs).

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi

  • Calixarene and calixresorcarene glycosides: their synthesis and biological applications.

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alberto Marra

  • Parallel synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones using Yb(III)-resin and polymer-supported scavengers under solvent-free conditions. A green chemistry approach to the Biginelli reaction

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi

  • Synthesis of N-Benzyl Nitrones

    A. Dondoni;S. Franco;F. Junquera;F. L. Merchán

  • Synthesis and Properties of O-Glycosyl Calix[4]Arenes (Calixsugars)

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alberto Marra;Marie-Christine Scherrmann;Alessandro Casnati

  • Thiazole-Based Synthesis of Formyl C-Glycosides

    Alessandro Dondoni;Marie-Christine Scherrmann

  • C-glycoside clustering on calix[4]arene, adamantane, and benzene scaffolds through 1,2,3-triazole linkers.

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alberto Marra

  • Assembling heterocycle-tethered C-glycosyl and alpha-amino acid residues via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions.

    Alessandro Dondoni;Pier Paolo Giovannini;Alessandro Massi

  • Multicomponent Hantzsch cyclocondensation as a route to highly functionalized 2- and 4-dihydropyridylalanines, 2- and 4-pyridylalanines, and their N-oxides: preparation via a polymer-assisted solution-phase approach

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi;Erik Minghini;Valerio Bertolasi

  • A New Ligation Strategy for Peptide and Protein Glycosylation: Photoinduced Thiol–Ene Coupling

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi;Paolo Nanni;Aldo Roda

  • Stereochemistry associated with the addition of 2-(trimethylsilyl)thiazole to differentially protected .alpha.-amino aldehydes. Applications toward the synthesis of amino sugars and sphingosines

    Alessandro Dondoni;Giancarlo Fantin;Marco Fogagnolo;Paola Pedrini

  • Three-Component Biginelli Cyclocondensation Reaction Using C-Glycosylated Substrates. Preparation of a Collection of Dihydropyrimidinone Glycoconjugates and the Synthesis of C-Glycosylated Monastrol Analogues†

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi;Simona Sabbatini;Valerio Bertolasi

  • Model Studies toward the Synthesis of Dihydropyrimidinyl and Pyridyl α-Amino Acids via Three-Component Biginelli and Hantzsch Cyclocondensations

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alessandro Massi;Erik Minghini;Simona Sabbatini

  • Thiazole-mediated synthetic methodology.

    Alessandro Dondoni;Alberto Marra

  • Photoinduced Thiol−Ene Coupling as a Click Ligation Tool for Thiodisaccharide Synthesis

    Michele Fiore;Alberto Marra;Alessandro Dondoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Marra
Alberto Marra University of Montpellier
Pedro Merino
Pedro Merino University of Zaragoza
Tomas Tejero
Tomas Tejero University of Zaragoza
Valerio Bertolasi
Valerio Bertolasi University of Ferrara
Pascal Dumy
Pascal Dumy École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
Fernando Bernardi
Fernando Bernardi University of Bologna
Gian Franco Pedulli
Gian Franco Pedulli University of Bologna
Augusto C. Tomé
Augusto C. Tomé University of Aveiro
Maria G. P. M. S. Neves
Maria G. P. M. S. Neves University of Aveiro
Cinzia Chiappe
Cinzia Chiappe University of Pisa

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