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Overview

Paolo Melchiorre is affiliated with the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Chemistry, with notable contributions in Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pharmaceutical Science, and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several key topics, including radical photochemical reactions, sulfur-based synthesis techniques, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, and CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts.

Paolo Melchiorre has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Shuo Wu
  • Adriana Faraone
  • Florian Schiel
  • Dengke Ma
  • Will C. Hartley

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Introduction: Photochemical Catalytic Processes (2022), Chemical Reviews
  • A General Organocatalytic System for Electron Donor-Acceptor Complex Photoactivation and Its Use in Radical Processes (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthetic Methods Driven by the Photoactivity of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry glows green with photoredox catalysis (2020), Nature Communications
  • Amide Synthesis by Nickel/Photoredox-Catalyzed Direct Carbamoylation of (Hetero)Aryl Bromides (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric aminocatalysis--gold rush in organic chemistry.

    Paolo Melchiorre;Mauro Marigo;Armando Carlone;Giuseppe Bartoli

  • Synthetic Methods Driven by the Photoactivity of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes

    Giacomo E. M. Crisenza;Daniele Mazzarella;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Mechanistic Studies in Photocatalysis

    Luca Buzzetti;Giacomo E. M. Crisenza;Paolo Melchiorre;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Photochemical activity of a key donor–acceptor complex can drive stereoselective catalytic α-alkylation of aldehydes

    Elena Arceo;Igor D. Jurberg;Ana Álvarez-Fernández;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light

    Mattia Silvi;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Cinchona-based primary amine catalysis in the asymmetric functionalization of carbonyl compounds.

    Paolo Melchiorre

  • Targeting Structural and Stereochemical Complexity by Organocascade Catalysis: Construction of Spirocyclic Oxindoles Having Multiple Stereocenters

    Giorgio Bencivenni;Li-Yuan Wu;Andrea Mazzanti;Berardino Giannichi

  • Chemistry glows green with photoredox catalysis.

    Giacomo E. M. Crisenza;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Asymmetric catalytic formation of quaternary carbons by iminium ion trapping of radicals

    John J. Murphy;David Bastida;Suva Paria;Maurizio Fagnoni

  • Die asymmetrische Aminokatalyse – Goldrausch in der organischen Chemie

    Paolo Melchiorre;Mauro Marigo;Armando Carlone;Giuseppe Bartoli

  • Asymmetric catalysis of Diels-Alder reactions with in situ generated heterocyclic ortho-quinodimethanes.

    Yankai Liu;Manuel Nappi;Elena Arceo;Silvia Vera

  • Sequential One-Pot InBr3-Catalyzed 1,4- then 1,2-Nucleophilic Addition to Enones

    Marco Bandini;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Massimo Giacomini;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Organocatalytic Asymmetric Friedel−Crafts Alkylation of Indoles with Simple α,β-Unsaturated Ketones

    Giuseppe Bartoli;Marcella Bosco;Armando Carlone;Fabio Pesciaioli

  • Visible-light excitation of iminium ions enables the enantioselective catalytic β-alkylation of enals

    Mattia Silvi;Charlie Verrier;Yannick P. Rey;Luca Buzzetti

  • Photo-organocatalytic Enantioselective Perfluoroalkylation of β-Ketoesters.

    Łukasz Woźniak;John J. Murphy;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Enantioselective Organocatalytic Alkylation of Aldehydes and Enals Driven by the Direct Photoexcitation of Enamines

    Mattia Silvi;Elena Arceo;Igor D. Jurberg;Carlo Cassani

  • Metal-free photochemical aromatic perfluoroalkylation of α-cyano arylacetates.

    Manuel Nappi;Giulia Bergonzini;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Photo-Organocatalysis of Atom-Transfer Radical Additions to Alkenes†

    Elena Arceo;Elisa Montroni;Paolo Melchiorre

  • When asymmetric aminocatalysis meets the vinylogy principle

    Igor D. Jurberg;Indranil Chatterjee;René Tannert;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Radical-Based C-C Bond-Forming Processes Enabled by the Photoexcitation of 4-Alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines.

    Luca Buzzetti;Alexis Prieto;Sudipta Raha Roy;Paolo Melchiorre

  • Diastereodivergent asymmetric sulfa-Michael additions of α-branched enones using a single chiral organic catalyst.

    Xu Tian;Carlo Cassani;Yankai Liu;Antonio Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Bartoli
Giuseppe Bartoli University of Bologna
Letizia Sambri
Letizia Sambri University of Bologna
Andrea Mazzanti
Andrea Mazzanti University of Pavia
Marco Bandini
Marco Bandini University of Bologna
Pier Giorgio Cozzi
Pier Giorgio Cozzi University of Bologna
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Andrea Cavalli
Andrea Cavalli Italian Institute of Technology
Achille Umani-Ronchi
Achille Umani-Ronchi University of Bologna
Márcio W. Paixão
Márcio W. Paixão Federal University of São Carlos
Maurizio Fagnoni
Maurizio Fagnoni University of Pavia

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