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Pier Giorgio Cozzi

Pier Giorgio Cozzi

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Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
14142
World Ranking
8068
National Ranking
204

Overview

Pier Giorgio Cozzi is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and specializes in the field of Chemistry, with significant contributions to Organic Chemistry as well as subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research encompasses various main topics such as Radical Photochemical Reactions, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques, Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Pier Giorgio Cozzi in multiple publications are:

  • Andrea Gualandi
  • Francesco Calogero
  • Paola Ceroni
  • Andrea Fermi
  • Simone Potenti

Selected recent papers by Pier Giorgio Cozzi include:

  • Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Cp2TiCl2-Catalyzed Photoredox Allylation of Aldehydes with Visible Light, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Metallaphotoredox catalysis with organic dyes, 2021, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Keto-coumarin scaffold for photoinitiators for 3D printing and photocomposites, 2020, Journal of Polymer Science
  • Diastereoselective and enantioselective photoredox pinacol coupling promoted by titanium complexes with a red-absorbing organic dye, 2022, Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • Metal–Salen Schiff base complexes in catalysis: practical aspects

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi

  • Enantioselective Catalytic Formation of Quaternary Stereogenic Centers

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Robert Hilgraf;Nicole Zimmermann

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

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

  • Direct Nucleophilic SN1‐Type Reactions of Alcohols

    Enrico Emer;Riccardo Sinisi;Montse Guiteras Capdevila;Diego Petruzziello

  • Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy

    Elena Bassan;Andrea Gualandi;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Paola Ceroni

  • Organocatalytic Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes by SN1-Type Reaction of Alcohols

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Fides Benfatti;Luca Zoli

  • Enantioselective hydrogenation of imines in ionic liquid/carbon dioxide media.

    Maurizio Solinas;Andreas Pfaltz;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Walter Leitner

  • Acetylenes in Catalysis: Enantioselective Additions to Carbonyl Groups and Imines and Applications Beyond

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Robert Hilgraf;Nicole Zimmermann

  • Enantioselective Alkynylation of Ketones Catalyzed by Zn(Salen) Complexes

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi

  • Dipeptide-Catalyzed Asymmetric Aldol Condensation of Acetone with (N-Alkylated) Isatins

    Gianluigi Luppi;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Magda Monari;Bernard Kaptein

  • The First Catalytic Enantioselective Nozaki-Hiyama Reaction.

    Marco Bandini;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Paolo Melchiorre;Achille Umani-Ronchi

  • Organocatalytic Enantioselective Alkylation of Aldehydes with [Fe(bpy)3]Br2 Catalyst and Visible Light

    Andrea Gualandi;Marianna Marchini;Luca Mengozzi;Mirco Natali

  • Photophysical poperties of Schiff-base metal complexes

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Luisa Stella Dolci;Andrea Garelli;Marco Montalti

  • A Rational Approach towards the Nucleophilic Substitutions of Alcohols “on Water”

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Luca Zoli

  • Catalytic stereoselective benzylic C–H functionalizations by oxidative C–H activation and organocatalysis

    Fides Benfatti;Montse Guiteras Capdevila;Luca Zoli;Elena Benedetto

  • Kinetic resolution of epoxides by a C-C bond-forming reaction: highly enantioselective addition of indoles to cis, trans, and meso aromatic epoxides catalyzed by [Cr(salen)] complexes.

    Marco Bandini;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Paolo Melchiorre;Achille Umani-Ronchi

  • [Cr(Salen)] as a ‘bridge’ between asymmetric catalysis, Lewis acids and redox processes

    Marco Bandini;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Achille Umani-Ronchi

  • Application of Tridentate Bis(oxazoline) Ligands in Catalytic Asymmetric Nozaki–Hiyama Allylation and Crotylation: An Example of High Enantioselection with a Non‐Symmetric Bis(oxazoline) Ligand

    Helen A. McManus;Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Patrick J. Guiry

  • Facile Access to Optically Active Ferrocenyl Derivatives with Direct Substitution of the Hydroxy Group Catalyzed by Indium Tribromide

    Paola Vicennati;Pier Giorgio Cozzi

  • Chiral Phosphinopyrrolyl‐Oxazolines: A New Class of Easily Prepared, Modular P,N‐Ligands

    Pier Giorgio Cozzi;Nicole Zimmermann;Robert Hilgraf;Silvia Schaffner

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Bandini
Marco Bandini University of Bologna
Achille Umani-Ronchi
Achille Umani-Ronchi University of Bologna
Paolo Melchiorre
Paolo Melchiorre Royal Society of Chemistry
Paola Ceroni
Paola Ceroni University of Bologna
Corrado Rizzoli
Corrado Rizzoli University of Parma
Angiola Chiesi-Villa
Angiola Chiesi-Villa University of Parma
Patrick J. Guiry
Patrick J. Guiry University College Dublin
Carsten Bolm
Carsten Bolm RWTH Aachen University
Marco Lucarini
Marco Lucarini University of Bologna
Massimo Marcaccio
Massimo Marcaccio University of Bologna

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