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Melchiorre, Paolo
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ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ (Institut Català d'Investigació Química). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Paolo Melchiorre is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona.
Paolo, born in 1973 in Camerino, Italy, studied Chemistry at the University of Bologna where he graduated in 1999. Then he began his doctoral studies in Chemistry working in the area of asymmetric catalysis. Before obtaining his PhD in 2003, he spent a research period in Denmark working with Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen at the “Center for Catalysis”, Århus University, where his studies centered on asymmetric organocatalysis. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Industrial Chemistry Faculty of the Bologna University. There, he began his studies on the development of novel organocatalytic asymmetric transformations. In October 2007 he took a permanent position as an Assistant Professor at Bologna University.
In September 2009 Paolo, together with his wife Lorna and their two kids, moved to Catalonia as ICREA Research Professor and ICIQ Group Leader.
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Research Interests
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My research aims to exploit the potential of Asymmetric Organocatalysis, where an inorganic element is not part of the active principle, to find cost-effective, environmentally benign, and sustainable synthetic methods to assemble diverse and medicinally relevant chemical structures.
My current scientific interests lie on the discovery and mechanistic elucidation of new asymmetric organocatalytic processes that address unsolved problems in synthetic methodology. The final aim is to develop environmentally friendly and innovative catalytic methods that will find widespread use in organic synthesis.
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Key Words
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Asymmetric Synthesis, Catalysis, Chemical Biology, Organocatalysis
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