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Roberta Cipullo is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in chemistry and materials science. Their work spans several subfields, with a strong focus on organic chemistry and materials chemistry, as well as polymers and plastics, process chemistry and technology, and inorganic chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Synthetic organic chemistry methods
  • Advanced polymer synthesis and characterization
  • Machine learning in materials science
  • Crystallization and solubility studies

Roberta Cipullo has published in several prominent journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Polymers
  • Macromolecules
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Dalton Transactions

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Reactivity Trends of Lewis Acidic Sites in Methylaluminoxane and Some of Its Modifications," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Methylaluminoxane's Molecular Cousin: A Well-defined and "Complete" Al-Activator for Molecular Olefin Polymerization Catalysts," 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • "An Integrated High Throughput Experimentation/Predictive QSAR Modeling Approach to ansa-Zirconocene Catalysts for Isotactic Polypropylene," 2020, Polymers
  • "ansa-Zirconocene Catalysts for Isotactic-Selective Propene Polymerization at High Temperature: A Long Story Finds a Happy Ending," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "High-Throughput Experimentation in Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Facing the Challenges of Miniaturization," 2020, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Vincenzo Busico
  • Antonio Vittoria
  • Christian Ehm
  • Peter H. M. Budzelaar
  • Alexander Z. Voskoboynikov

Best Publications

  • Microstructure of polypropylene

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo

  • Nonconventional catalysts for isotactic propene polymerization in solution developed by using high-throughput-screening technologies.

    Thomas R. Boussie;Gary M. Diamond;Christopher Goh;Keith A. Hall

  • Full assignment of the 13C NMR spectra of regioregular polypropylenes : Methyl and methylene region

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Guglielmo Monaco;Michele Vacatello

  • Effects of regiochemical and stereochemical errors on the course of isotactic propene polyinsertion promoted by homogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;John C. Chadwick;Johan F. Modder

  • Improving the performance of methylalumoxane: a facile and efficient method to trap "free" trimethylaluminum.

    Busico;Cipullo R;Cutillo F;Friederichs N

  • High-Resolution 13C NMR Configurational Analysis of Polypropylene Made with MgCl2-Supported Ziegler−Natta Catalysts. 1. The “Model” System MgCl2/TiCl4−2,6-Dimethylpyridine/Al(C2H5)3

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Guglielmo Monaco;Giovanni Talarico

  • Influence of Monomer Concentration on the Stereospecificity of 1-Alkene Polymerization Promoted by C2-symmetric ansa-Metallocene Catalysts

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo

  • Periodic DFT and High-Resolution Magic-Angle-Spinning (HR-MAS) 1H NMR Investigation of the Active Surfaces of MgCl2-Supported Ziegler−Natta Catalysts. The MgCl2 Matrix

    Vincenzo Busico;Mauro Causà;Roberta Cipullo;Raffaele Credendino

  • Block Copolymers of Highly Isotactic Polypropylene via Controlled Ziegler−Natta Polymerization

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Nic Friederichs;Sara Ronca

  • Demystifying Ziegler–Natta Catalysts: The Origin of Stereoselectivity

    Antonio Vittoria;Anika Meppelder;Nic Friederichs;Vincenzo Busico

  • The First Molecularly Characterized Isotactic Polypropylene-block-polyethylene Obtained via ``Quasi-Living'' Insertion Polymerization

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Nic Friederichs;Sara Ronca

  • Polypropylene “Chain Shuttling” at Enantiomorphous and Enantiopure Catalytic Species: Direct and Quantitative Evidence from Polymer Microstructure

    Francesca Alfano;Harold W. Boone;Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo

  • Intra- and Intermolecular NMR Studies on the Activation of Arylcyclometallated Hafnium Pyridyl-Amido Olefin Polymerization Precatalysts

    Cristiano Zuccaccia;Alceo Macchioni;Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo

  • Design of stereoselective Ziegler–Natta propene polymerization catalysts

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Roberta Pellecchia;Sara Ronca

  • On the First Insertion of α-Olefins in Hafnium Pyridyl-Amido Polymerization Catalysts

    Cristiano Zuccaccia;Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Giovanni Talarico

  • Influence of Ziegler−Natta Catalyst Regioselectivity on Polypropylene Molecular Weight Distribution and Rheological and Crystallization Behavior

    John C. Chadwick;Frank P. T. J. Van Der Burgt;Sanjay Rastogi;Vincenzo Busico

  • Accelerating the Research Approach to Ziegler–Natta Catalysts

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Alessio Mingione;Luca Rongo

  • Mimicking Ziegler-Natta Catalysts in Homogeneous Phase, 1. C2-Symmetric Octahedral Zr(IV) Complexes with Tetradentate [ONNO]-Type Ligands

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Sara Ronca;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Advances in the 13C NMR Microstructural Characterization of Propene Polymers

    V. Busico;R. Cipullo;P. Corradini;L. Landriani

  • Stopped-flow polymerizations of ethene and propene in the presence of the catalyst systemrac-Me2Si(2-methyl-4-phenyl-1-indenyl)2ZrCl2/methylaluminoxane

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Valentina Esposito

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Busico
Vincenzo Busico University of Naples Federico II
Peter H. M. Budzelaar
Peter H. M. Budzelaar University of Naples Federico II
Alceo Macchioni
Alceo Macchioni University of Perugia
Cristiano Zuccaccia
Cristiano Zuccaccia University of Perugia
Claudio De Rosa
Claudio De Rosa University of Naples Federico II
Paolo Corradini
Paolo Corradini University of Milan
Finizia Auriemma
Finizia Auriemma University of Naples Federico II
Sanjay Rastogi
Sanjay Rastogi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Khalil A. Abboud
Khalil A. Abboud University of Florida

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