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Vincenzo Busico is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a focus on subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics including Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Polymer crystallization and properties, and the application of Machine Learning in Materials Science.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Roberta Cipullo, Antonio Vittoria, Christian Ehm, Peter H. M. Budzelaar, and Alexander Z. Voskoboynikov. Their collaboration with these researchers is reflected in multiple publications and joint projects.

Busico has contributed to several publication venues, commonly featuring 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

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

  • Polymerization of propene in the presence of MgCl2‐supported Ziegler‐Natta catalysts, 1. The role of ethyl benzoate as “internal” and “external” base

    Vincenzo Busico;Paolo Corradini;Luigi De Martino;Antonio Proto

  • 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

  • Rhodium-mediated stereoselective polymerization of "carbenes".

    Dennis G. H. Hetterscheid;Coen Hendriksen;Wojciech I. Dzik;Jan M. M. Smits

  • 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

  • A periodic hybrid DFT approach (including dispersion) to MgCl2-supported Ziegler–Natta catalysts – 1: TiCl4 adsorption on MgCl2 crystal surfaces

    Maddalena D’Amore;Raffaele Credendino;Peter H.M. Budzelaar;Mauro Causá

  • Metal-catalysed olefin polymerisation into the new millennium: a perspective outlook

    Vincenzo Busico

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

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Nic Friederichs;Sara Ronca

  • Polymorphism in anhydrous amphiphilic systems. Long-chain primary n-alkylammonium chlorides

    Vincenzo Busico;Piero Cernicchiaro;Paolo Corradini;Michele Vacatello

  • 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

  • Propene Polymerization Promoted by C2-Symmetric Metallocene Catalysts: From Atactic to Isotactic Polypropene in Consequence of an Isotope Effect

    V. Busico;L. Caporaso;and R. Cipullo;L. Landriani

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

    Cristiano Zuccaccia;Alceo Macchioni;Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo

  • Origin of the regiochemistry of propene insertion at octahedral column 4 polymerization catalysts: design or serendipity?

    G Talarico;Busico;Luigi Cavallo

  • Design of stereoselective Ziegler–Natta propene polymerization catalysts

    Vincenzo Busico;Roberta Cipullo;Roberta Pellecchia;Sara Ronca

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberta Cipullo
Roberta Cipullo University of Naples Federico II
Peter H. M. Budzelaar
Peter H. M. Budzelaar University of Naples Federico II
Paolo Corradini
Paolo Corradini University of Milan
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
Cosimo Carfagna
Cosimo Carfagna Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials
Antonio Proto
Antonio Proto University of Salerno
Gaetano Guerra
Gaetano Guerra University of Salerno
Finizia Auriemma
Finizia Auriemma University of Naples Federico II

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