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Valerio Bertolasi

Valerio Bertolasi

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Chemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
15530
World Ranking
12905
National Ranking
435

Overview

Valerio Bertolasi is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy. The research work primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry as subfields. The scientist's publications cover topics that include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. Additional topics of work involve Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions, Magnetism in coordination complexes, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, as well as Metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Frequent venues for publications include The Cambridge Structural Database, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Molecules, Journal of Molecular Structure, and Inorganica Chimica Acta. Bertolasi's engagement with these journals demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach spanning inorganic, organometallic, and molecular chemistry fields.

Frequent co-authors in Bertolasi's research include:

  • Joydev Dinda
  • Debashis Ray
  • M. Svobodova
  • Luboš Socha
  • Milos̆ Sedlák

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Valerio Bertolasi cover various topics within coordination chemistry and biotransformations. Notable publications are:

  • "Unusually Distorted Pseudo-Octahedral Coordination Environment Around CoII from Thioether Schiff Base Ligands in Dinuclear [CoLn] (Ln = La, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho) Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Understanding of Magnetic Behavior," published in 2020 in Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Tridentate Schiff base and 4,4'-bipyridine coordinated di/polynuclear Cu (II) complexes: Synthesis, crystal structure, DNA/protein binding and catecholase activity," published in 2020 in Applied Organometallic Chemistry
  • "Biotransformation of Cortisone with Rhodococcus rhodnii: Synthesis of New Steroids," published in 2021 in Molecules
  • "A promising class of luminescent derivatives of Silver(I) and Gold(I)-N-heterocyclic carbene," published in 2020 in Applied Organometallic Chemistry
  • "Pyridine and pyrimidine functionalized half-sandwich Ru(II)-N heterocyclic carbene complexes: Synthesis, structures, spectra, electrochemistry and biological studies," published in 2021 in Journal of Molecular Structure

Best Publications

  • Evidence for resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding. 4. Covalent nature of the strong homonuclear hydrogen bond. Study of the O-H--O system by crystal structure correlation methods

    Paola Gilli;Valerio Bertolasi;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • Evidence for resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding from crystal-structure correlations on the enol form of the .beta.-diketone fragment

    Gastone Gilli;Fabrizio Bellucci;Valeria Ferretti;Valerio Bertolasi

  • Predicting Hydrogen-Bond Strengths from Acid−Base Molecular Properties. The pKa Slide Rule: Toward the Solution of a Long-Lasting Problem

    Paola Gilli;Loretta Pretto;Valerio Bertolasi;Gastone Gilli

  • Evidence for Intramolecular N−H···O Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen Bonding in β-Enaminones and Related Heterodienes. A Combined Crystal-Structural, IR and NMR Spectroscopic, and Quantum-Mechanical Investigation

    Paola Gilli;Valerio Bertolasi;and Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • Evidence for resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding. 2. Intercorrelation between crystal structure and spectroscopic parameters in eight intramolecularly hydrogen bonded 1,3-diaryl-1,3-propanedione enols

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • The Nature of Solid-State N−H···O/O−H···N Tautomeric Competition in Resonant Systems. Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds Formed by the ···OC−CN−NH··· ⇄ ···HO−CC−NN··· Ketohydrazone−Azoenol System. A Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic and DFT Computational Study

    Paola Gilli;Valerio Bertolasi;Loretta Pretto;and Antonín Lyčka

  • Covalent versus Electrostatic Nature of the Strong Hydrogen Bond: Discrimination among Single, Double, and Asymmetric Single-Well Hydrogen Bonds by Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic Methods in β-Diketone Enol RAHB Systems

    Paola Gilli;Valerio Bertolasi;Loretta Pretto;Valeria Ferretti

  • Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic and DFT Computational Study of the NH···O/N···HO Tautomeric Competition in 1-(Arylazo)-2-naphthols. Outline of a Transiton-State Hydrogen-Bond Theory

    Paola Gilli;Valerio Bertolasi;Loretta Pretto;Liudmil Antonov

  • Resonance‐Assisted O‐H ⃛ O Hydrogen Bonding: Its Role in the Crystalline Self‐Recognition of β‐Diketone Enols and its Structural and IR Characterization

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • 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

  • Iridium cyclometalated complexes with axial symmetry. Synthesis and photophysical properties of a trans-biscyclometalated complex containing the terdentate ligand 2,6-diphenylpyridine.

    Matthew Polson;Sandro Fracasso;Valerio Bertolasi;Marcella Ravaglia

  • 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

  • Resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding. III. Formation of intermolecular hydrogen-bonded chains in crystals of β-diketone enols and its relevance to molecular association

    G. Gilli;V. Bertolasi;V. Ferretti;P. Gilli

  • Intermolecular N–H⋯O hydrogen bonds assisted by resonance. Heteroconjugated systems as hydrogen-bond-strengthening functional groups

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • Stereochemical features controlling binding and intrinsic activity properties of benzodiazepine-receptor ligands.

    P A Borea;G Gilli;V Bertolasi;V Ferretti

  • Stereoselective Homologation–Amination of Aldehydes by Addition of Their Nitrones to C‐2 Metalated Thiazoles—A General Entry to α‐Amino Aldehydes and Amino Sugars

    Alessandro Dondoni;Santiago Franco;Federico Junquera;Francisco L. Merchán

  • Intramolecular O-H ? ? ? O hydrogen bonds assisted by resonance. Correlation between crystallographic data and 1 H NMR chemical shifts

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

  • Chelating agents for human diseases related to aluminium overload

    G. Crisponi;V.M. Nurchi;V. Bertolasi;M. Remelli

  • Hydrogen Bonding and Electron Donor−Acceptor (EDA) Interactions Controlling the Crystal Packing of Picric Acid and Its Adducts with Nitrogen Bases. Their Rationalization in Terms of the pKa Equalization and Electron-Pair Saturation Concepts

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Gastone Gilli

  • General rules for the packing of hydrogen-bonded crystals as derived from the analysis of squaric acid anions: aminoaromatic nitrogen base co-crystals

    Valerio Bertolasi;Paola Gilli;Valeria Ferretti;Gastone Gilli

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Dondoni
Alessandro Dondoni University of Ferrara
Pier Andrea Borea
Pier Andrea Borea University of Ferrara
Amit Das
Amit Das Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Maurizio Peruzzini
Maurizio Peruzzini National Research Council (CNR)
Pasquale Longo
Pasquale Longo University of Salerno
Corine Mathonière
Corine Mathonière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rodolphe Clérac
Rodolphe Clérac Paul Pascal Research Center
Christopher W. Bielawski
Christopher W. Bielawski Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Octavio L. Franco
Octavio L. Franco Universidade Católica de Brasília
Claudio Pellecchia
Claudio Pellecchia University of Salerno

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