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Curriculum Vitae
Personal data:
Name: Andrea Rossin
Date of birth: 31st January 1974
Current affiliation: ICCOM-CNR – Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici – Area di ricerca CNR di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano 10 – 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) – Italy (http://www.iccom.cnr.it/).
Position: member of staff working in the FIRENZE HYDROLAB project (http://www.iccom.cnr.it/hydrolab/).
E-mail: [email protected].
Studies:
April 2001- August 2004: Ph.D. student at Cardiff University (United Kingdom, http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/ ), Inorganic Chemistry Department, under the supervision of Dr. Simon Aldridge (from year 2007 University Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford University: personal webpage http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/saldridge.html). Degree thesis on synthesis and DFT theoretical characterisation of new group 13 diyl complexes with transition and main group metals. Chemistry of transition metal boryl and borylene complexes.
September 1993- March 1999: chemistry undergraduate studies and final first class degree with full marks (110/110 magna cum laude) at Torino University (Italy, http://www.chimifm.unito.it/index.htm), under the supervision of Prof. Pier Luigi Stanghellini
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(Inorganic Chemistry Dept.). Degree thesis on synthesis and FT-IR/Raman characterisation of metallorganic compounds containing mono- and bicyclic aromatic rings CxHy (benzene, tropylium cation, indene, indenide ion, azulene).
September 1989- July 1993: Scientific High School career and final degree with full marks (60/60) in Biella (Italy).
Past scientific job experiences:
2006 – 2009: Postdoctoral Associate at ICCOM-CNR as FIRENZE HYDROLAB fellow.
November 2004-December 2005: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain, http://klingon.uab.es/). Post-doctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Agustí Lledós, Physical Chemistry Dept. The research was carried out as part of the EU Marie Curie Project AQUACHEM (http://www.iccom.cnr.it/aquachem/), dealing with computational DFT studies of hydrogenation of α,β-unsatured aldehydes mediated by water-soluble ruthenium(II) complexes. 1997-1998: Torino University, part-time assistant in teaching laboratories of Physical Chemistry undergraduate courses, organised by Prof. Piero Ugliengo.
1999: Alessandria University (Italy), scholarship for the creation of a Raman spectra metallorganic database for the Web (pages created with Netscape Composer).
1999: cooperation with Torino University for thesis work completion (synthesis of: cobalt clusters with COT ligand, bimetallic derivatives of indene with chromium and rhodium, tropylium chloride).
Language knowledge:
Italian – native.
English – excellent, both written and spoken. Attendance of Cambridge Proficiency Level (September 2002-June 2003) and Pitman Intermediate Level courses (September 2001-March
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2002). Approved at the final examination. Pitman Intermediate Certificate obtained on March 24th 2002.
French – good. Studied for three years during the High School.
Spanish – excellent, both written and spoken. Attendance of an intensive 90-hour course in the “Servei d’Idiomes Moderns”- Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, February 2005. Approved at the final examination. Level 3 out of 5, with full marks.
Computer knowledge:
Good knowledge of the Microsoft Office pack (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and of the Internet typical software (Explorer, Outlook Express, Netscape Navigator). Creation of web pages with the help of FrontPage and Netscape Composer. Basic notions of HTML language. Experience with chemical software for graphics and calculation (ChemDraw, Gaussian and GaussView, ADF, Molden, Moldraw, Ortep) and with the Unix/Linux platform. Practice with the WINGX package for structure resolution and refinement from single-crystal X-Ray diffraction data.
Publications:
1. “Linking of metal centres through boryl ligands: synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of symmetrically bridged boryl complexes” – Aldridge S., Calder R.J., Rossin A., Dickinson A.A., Willock D.J., Jones C., Evans D.J., Steed J.W., Light M.E., Coles S.J., Hursthouse M.B., J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2002, 2020.
2. “Boryl and borylene complexes of iron and manganese” – Aldridge S., Calder R. J., Coombs D. L., Al-Fawaz, A. Rossin, A. Abstracts of Papers, 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 18-22, 2002 (2002).
3. “Carbonyl analogues? Analysis of the Fe-E (E=B, Al, Ga) bonding in cationic terminal diyl complexes by Density Functional Theory” – Aldridge S., Rossin A., Coombs D.L., Willock D.J., Dalton Trans. 2004, 2649.
4. “Fe=B double bonds: synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of cationic terminal borylene complexes” – Coombs D.L., Aldridge S., Rossin A., Jones C., Willock D.J., Organometallics 2004, 23, 2911.
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5. “Fe-Ga multiple bonding? Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of a transition metal complex containing a cationic two-coordinate gallium centre” – Bunn N.R., Aldridge S., Coombs D.L., Rossin A., Willock D.J., Jones C., Ooi L., Chem. Commun. 2004, 1732.
6. “(η5-C
5Me5)Fe(CO)2(BOCH2CH2CH2O): an organoiron complex containing the (trimethyleneglycolato)boryl ligand” – Rossin A., Aldridge S., Ooi L., Appl. Organomet. Chem., 19(1), 181 (2005).
7. “Halide abstraction as a route to cationic transition-metal complexes containing two-coordinate Gallium and Indium ligand systems” – Bunn N.R., Aldridge S., Kays D.L., Coombs N.D., Rossin A., Willock D.J., Day J.K., Jones C., Ooi L., Organometallics 2005, 24, 5891.
8. “Synthetic and reaction chemistry of heteroatom stabilized boryl and cationic borylene complexes” – Kays D.L., Rossin A., Day J.K., Ooi L., Aldridge S., Dalton Trans. 2006, 399. 9. “C-H oxidative addition of bisimidazolium salts to Ir and Rh complexes, and N-heterocyclic
carbene generation. A combined experimental and theoretical study” – Viciano M., Poyatos M., Sanaù M., Peris E., Rossin A., Ujaque G., Lledòs A., Organometallics 2006, 25(5), 1120. One of Organometallics Most-Cited Articles in 2006.
10.“Benzene and tropylium metal complexes. Intra- and inter-molecular interaction evidenced by vibrational analysis: the blue-shift hydrogen bond” – Stanghellini P.L., Diana E., Arrais A., Rossin A., Kettle S.F.A., Organometallics 2006, 25(21), 5024.
11.“The active role of water solvent in the regioselective C=O hydrogenation of unsatured aldehydes by [Ru(H)2(mtppms)x] in basic media” – Rossin A., Kovács G., Ujaque G., Lledós A., Joó F., Organometallics 2006, 25(21), 5010.
12. “Complexes of a gallium heterocycle with transition metal dicylopentadienyl and cyclopentadienylcarbonyl fragments, and with a dialkylmanganese compound” – Aldridge S., Baker R.J., Coombs N.D., Jones C., Rose R.P., Rossin A., Willock D.J., Dalton Trans. 2006, 3313.
13.“Water-assisted H-H bond splitting mediated by [CpRu(PTA)2Cl] (PTA=1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane). A DFT analysis” – Rossin A., Gonsalvi L., Phillips A. D., Maresca O., Lledós A., Peruzzini M., Organometallics 2007, 26(14), 3289.
14.“Una breve introduzione sull’idrogeno, una soluzione possibile al problema energetico globale” – Barbara Di Credico, Andrea Rossin e Maurizio Peruzzini. A general chapter on
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hydrogen economy from the volume “Biocombustili e Biocarburanti – Soluzioni, strumenti, agevolazioni” – IPSOA Editor – Wolters Kluwer Italia , Assago (MI) (2007).
15.“Efficient catalysis of Ammonia Borane Dehydrogenation” – Bianchini C., Giambastiani G., Rossin A., ChemTracts 2007, 20(7), 273.
16.“Synthesis and Reactivity of Rhodium(III) Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Complexes of N–B – PTA(BH3). X-ray crystal structures of [Cp*RhCl2(N–B–PTA(BH3)] and [Cp*Rh{N–B– PTA(BH3)}(η2-CH2=CHPh)]” – Bolaño S., Albinati A., Bravo J.,Caporali M., Gonsalvi L., Male L., Rodríguez-Rocha M.a Mar, Rossin A., Peruzzini M., J. Organomet. Chem. 693 (2008), 2397.
17.“Synthesis and characterization of κ1-P and κ2-P,N palladium(II) complexes of the open-cage water soluble aminophosphine PTN” – Caporali, M., Bianchini, C., Bolaño S., Bosquain S., Gonsalvi, L., Oberhauser, W., Rossin, A., Peruzzini, M., Inorg. Chim. Acta 361 (2008), 3017. 18.“Phase transitions and CO2 adsorption properties of polymeric magnesium formate” – Rossin
A., Ienco A., Costantino F., Montini T., Di Credico B., Caporali M., Gonsalvi L., Fornasiero P., Peruzzini M. Cryst. Growth Des. 2008, 8(9), 3302.
19.“Selective B-H vs. N-H bond activation in ammonia borane by [Ir(dppm)2][OTf]” – Rossin A., Caporali M., Gonsalvi L., Guerri A., Lledós A., Zanobini F., Peruzzini M. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 3055.
20.“Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium(II) complexes with bridging alkynylphosphine ligands: synthesis and electrochemical studies” – Di Credico B., Fabrizi De Biani F., Gonsalvi L., Guerri A., Ienco A., Laschi F., Peruzzini M., Reginato G., Rossin A., Zanello P. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 11985.
21.“Can nitrones functionalize carbon nanotubes?” – Ghini G., Luconi L., Rossin A., Bianchini C., Giambastiani G., Cicchi S., Lascialfari L., Brandi A., Giannasi A. Chem. Commun. 2010, 46(2), 252.
22.“Yttrium-Aminopyridinate complexes: synthesis and characterization of Yttrium-alkyl and Yttrium-hydrido derivatives” – Luconi L., Lyubov D., Bianchini C., Rossin A., Faggi C., Fukin G., Cherkasov A., Shavyrin A., Trifonov A., Giambastiani G. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2010, DOI 10.1002/ejic.200900934.
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1. November 16th 2003, Inorganic Seminars, Cardiff University (United Kingdom): oral presentation on the Ph.D. thesis contents. Title: “Synthetic and computational studies of low-coordinate boron ligand systems”.
2. April 5-6th 2004, 3rd Easter Conference, Cardiff University (United Kingdom). Oral presentation: “Synthetic and computational studies of low-valent boron complexes”. (Awarded as the best oral presentation of the Conference).
3. April 5-6th 2004, 3rd Easter Conference, Cardiff University (United Kingdom): presentation of 2 posters in cooperation with other members of the reasearch group on chemistry of boryl, borylene and gallyl complexes of iron.
4. February 4-5th 2005, Lisbon (Portugal): 1st year AQUACHEM meeting. Oral communication: “DFT studies of selective hydrogenation of α,β-unsatured aldehydes with ruthenium(II) catalysts”.
5. July 11-16th 2005, Siena (Italy): XXXIII Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana. Oral communication: “Computational studies of selective hydrogenation of α,β-unsatured aldehydes with ruthenium(II) catalysts”.
6. July 18-22nd 2005, Firenze (Italy): ISHHC-XII. Oral communication: “Regioselective C=C/C=O hydrogenation of α,β-unsatured aldehydes with ruthenium(II) water-soluble complexes: a computational mechanistic study”.
7. September 11-15th 2005, Genève (Switzerland). DFT 2005. Poster: “Regioselective C=O hydrogenation of trans-cynnamaldehyde to cynnamyl alcohol with the water-soluble
complexes (H)2Ru(mtppms)x [x=3,4; mtppms
=(meta-sulphonatophenyl)diphenylphosphine]. A theoretical study of the reaction mechanism and selectivity”.
8. December 18-21st 2005, Almería (Spain). AQUACHEM mid-term review meeting and workshop. Oral communication: “Selectivity of C=O hydrogenation in α,β-unsaturated aldehydes with Ru(II) water-soluble complexes: A computational analysis”
9. July 23-28th 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). ICOMC 2006. Poster: “The active role of the water solvent in the dihydrogen activation in Ru(II) water-soluble complexes bearing PTA ligands: a DFT analysis (PTA=1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane)”.
10.September 10-15th 2006, Firenze (Italy). SCI 2006, XXII Congress of the Italian Chemical Society. Oral communication: “Water-assisted dihydrogen activation in ruthenium PTA complexes: a DFT study (PTA=1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane)”.
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11.September 27-29th 2006, Barcelona (Spain). Experiment and Theory in Transition Metal Chemistry: a meeting point. ETTMC 2006. Oral communication: “H2 activation mediated by Ru(II) PTA water-soluble complexes: how the water solvent takes an active part in the process (PTA=1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane)”.
12.November 30th-December 1st 2006, Florence (Italy). IDECAT Conference Series – Catalysis for sustainable energy production. Poster: “Hydrogen storage with MOFs and transition metal borohydride complexes”.
13.September 8th- 12th 2007, Camerino (Italy). 6th International School of organometallic chemistry ISOC 2007. Poster: “new metal formates for hydrogen storage”.
14.June 25th-28th 2008, Perugia (Italy). VII Co.G.I.C.O. 2008, Congresso del Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica della Società Chimica Italiana. Plenary lecture: “A combined experimental and DFT approach to the analysis of dihydrogen activation by water-soluble Ruthenium complexes” (BONATI award).
15.June 25th-28th 2008, Perugia (Italy). VII Co.G.I.C.O. 2008, Congresso del Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica della Società Chimica Italiana. Poster: “Reactivity studies of cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium complexes towards alkynylphosphine ligands”.
16.July 6th-11th 2008, Firenze (Italy). ISHC-XVI, International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis. Poster: “A combined experimental and DFT approach to the analysis of dihydrogen activation by water-soluble Ruthenium complexes”.
17.September 16th-20th 2008, Torino (Italy). 2nd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress. Poster: “Synthesis of new ruthenium(II) complexes and macrocycles bearing alkynylphosphine ligands.”
18.October 8th-10th 2008, Augsburg (Germany). MOF08, First International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Open Framework Compounds. Poster: “Phase transitions and CO2 adsorption of polymeric magnesium formate”.
19.April 27th-28th 2009, Bratislava (Slovakia). COST D40. Innovative Catalysis: New Processes and Selectivities. Oral communication: “Derivatisation of 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA): towards enantioselective catalytic processes in water phase”. 20.June 17th -19th 2009, Oslo (Norway). MOFCAT Workshop 2009, MOFs on the road to
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21.July 5th-10th 2009, Sorrento (Italy). XXIII National Congress of the Italian Chemical Society, SCI 2009. Poster: “Metal-Organic Coordination architectures with Thiazole-spaced carboxylates”.
22.September 20th-22nd 2009, Tirrenia (Italy). XXVIII Inter-regional Congress TUMA 2009. Oral communication: “New macrocyclic Ru(II) complexes with alkynylphosphino ligands”.
23.September 28th – October 2nd 2009, Moscow (Russian Federation). Chemistry of Organoelement Compounds: Results and Prospects. Oral communication: “The quest for advanced tailoring of water soluble phosphines. Upper rim functionalization of PTA and applications in catalytic hydrogenation reactions”.
24.November 12th 2009, Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Energethica 2009. Oral communication: “Design e sintesi di architetture molecolari per storage di idrogeno”.
Conference attendance:
1. July 2001, University of York (UK): Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division National Meeting
2. March 2003, University of Exeter (UK): Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division South-West regional meeting
3. March 2003, 2nd Cardiff Easter Conference, Cardiff (UK)
4. July 2003, King’s College, London (UK): Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division National Meeting
5. April 2004, 3rd Cardiff Easter Conference, Cardiff (UK) 6. May 2004, Cardiff Anglo-Dutch conference, Cardiff (UK)
7. July 2004, University College, London (UK): Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division National Meeting
8. February 2005, 1st year AQUACHEM meeting, Lisbon (P)
9. July 2005, XXXIII Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana, Siena (I)
10. July 2005, ISHHC-XII, Firenze (I)
11. September 2005, DFT2005, Genève (CH).
12. December 2005, AQUACHEM mid-term review meeting and workshop, Almería (E). 13. July 2006, ICOMC 2006, Zaragoza (E).
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15. September 2006, ETTMC 2006, Barcelona (E).
16. November-December 2006, IDECAT Conference Series, Firenze (I).
17. NIS Colloquium: “MOFs: smart materials for catalysis and adsorption” – 15th February 2007, Torino, Villa Gualino (I).
18. September 2007, ISOC 2007, 6th International School of Organometallic Chemistry, Camerino (I).
19.November-December 2007, CIAM Workshop (Catalysis in Aqueous Media) 2007, Toulouse (F).
20.June 2008, VII Co.G.I.C.O. Perugia (I).
21.July 2008, ISHC-XVI, Firenze (I). Member of the Organizing Committee. 22.October 2008, MOF08, Augsburg (D).
23.January 2009, NEMOMA09, Camerino (I).
24.March 2009, EWPC, 6th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry, Firenze (I). Member of the Organizing Committee.
25.April 2009, COST D40, Innovative Catalysis: New Processes and Selectivities. Bratislava (SK).
26.June 2009, MOFCAT Workshop 2009, Oslo (N).
27.September-October 2009, Nesmeyanov Conference 2009, Moscow (RUS). 28.November 2009, Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Energethica 2009 (I).
Prizes and awards
1. Cardiff University prize for the best oral presentation of the post-graduate students of the Chemistry Department, 3rd Easter Conference (2004), Cardiff (UK).
2. “Flavio Bonati” award of the G.I.C.O. (Italian Chemical Society – Organometallic Division) for young Italian scientists with remarkable results in the field of Organometallic Chemistry. VIII Co.G.I.C.O. (2008), Perugia (I). For more information, visit the CNR Molecular Design Department webpage http://www.dpm.cnr.it/focus3_en.htm.
