FRANCESCO RUFFO Professore Associato di Chimica Generale e Inorganica

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

tel. 081 674543

e-mail: ruffo@unina.it

www.docenti.unina.it/FRANCESCO.RUFFO

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AREE DI RICERCA

Chimica dei composti metallorganici, catalisi omogenea, catalisi asimmetrica, conversione di biomasse

ISTRUZIONE [dal più recente]

1994 Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Chimiche

1990 Laurea in Chimica Industriale

CARRIERA/ESPERIENZE [dal più recente]

anno Titolo

2001 Professore Associato di Chimica Generale e Inorganica

1994 Ricercatore di Chimica Generale e Inorganica

PREMI E RICONOSCIMENTI [dal più recente]

anno Titolo

2000 Premio “Flavio Bonati” (Gruppo Interdivisionale di

1995 Premio per la Tesi di Dottorato (Divisione di Chimica Inorganica, Società Chimica Italiana)

1991 Premio per la Tesi di Laurea “Laonigro” (Sezione Campania, Società Chimica Italiana)

INSEGNAMENTO E COORDINAMENTO [dal più recente]

Chimica Inorganica e Laboratorio (Chimica Industriale)

Chimica Generale e Inorganica e Laboratorio (Scienze Biologiche)

Metodi Innovativi in Catalisi Omogenea (Chimica)

ATTIVITÀ INTERNATIONALI [dal più recente]

anno Titolo

1997 Soggiorno presso il Politecnico di Stoccolma

1993 Soggiorno presso la Georg-August

Professore Associato di Chimica Generale e Inorganica (CHIM03)

www.docenti.unina.it/FRANCESCO.RUFFO

composti metallorganici, catalisi omogenea, catalisi asimmetrica, conversione di biomasse

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Chimiche

Laurea in Chimica Industriale

CARRIERA/ESPERIENZE [dal più recente]

Professore Associato di Chimica Generale e Inorganica

Ricercatore di Chimica Generale e Inorganica

PREMI E RICONOSCIMENTI [dal più recente]

Premio “Flavio Bonati” (Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica, Società Chimica Italiana)

Premio per la Tesi di Dottorato (Divisione di Chimica Inorganica, Società Chimica Italiana)

Premio per la Tesi di Laurea “Laonigro” (Sezione Campania, Società Chimica Italiana)

INSEGNAMENTO E COORDINAMENTO [dal più recente]

Chimica Inorganica e Laboratorio (Chimica Industriale)

Chimica Generale e Inorganica e Laboratorio (Scienze Biologiche)

Metodi Innovativi in Catalisi Omogenea (Chimica)

ATTIVITÀ INTERNATIONALI [dal più recente]

Soggiorno presso il Politecnico di Stoccolma

August-Universitaet di Gottinga

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composti metallorganici, catalisi omogenea, catalisi asimmetrica, conversione di biomasse

Chimica Organometallica, Società Chimica Italiana)

Premio per la Tesi di Dottorato (Divisione di Chimica Inorganica, Società Chimica Italiana)

PUBBLICAZIONI: 2003-2016

1) Maria E. Cucciolito, Vincenzo De Felice, Ida Orabona, Achille Panunzi,

"Coordination modes of cis-P,P'-diphenyl

Inorg. Chim. Acta, 343 (2003) 209.

2) Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Ida Orabona,

"Synthesis and characterisation of trigonal bipyramidal olefin platinum(II) complexes with chalcogenide ligands in axial

position. The X-ray molecular structures of

[Pt(SMe2)2(dmphen)(diphenylfumarate)](BF

Organometallics, 22 (2003) 1223.

3) Alceo Macchioni, Alessandra Magistrato, Ida Orabona, Francesco Ruffo, Ursula Röthlisberger,

"Direct observation of an equilibrium between two anion

NMR spectroscopy"

New J. Chem., 27 (2003) 455.

4) Carmela Borriello, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Achille Panunzi,

"A hydrophilic chiral diamine from D-glucose in the Rh(I) catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation of acetophenone"

Inorg. Chem. Commun., 6 (2003) 1081.

5) Carmela Borriello, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Achille Panunzi,

"Preparation and catalytic properties of palladium(0) and rhodium(I) complexes containing new chiral P,N

from carbohydrates"

Inorg. Chim. Acta, 353 (2003) 238.

6) Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Roviello,

"Absolute configuration, coordination and stereochemical influence of 1,3,5,7

3,7-diene in Rh(I) and cationic Pd(II)"

J. Organomet. Chem., 679 (2003) 93.

7) Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

"Oxidative addition of Se-X bonds and reductive elimination of Se

ligands"

Inorg. Chem. Commun., 6 (2003) 1282.

8) Carmela Borriello, Raffaella Del Litto, Achille Panunzi,

"Mn(III) complexes of chiral “salen” type ligands derived from carbohydrates in the asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes"

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 15 (2004) 681.

9) Luigi Cavallo, Alceo Macchioni, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Daniele Zuccaccia, Ida Orabona,

"Neutral square-planar olefin/alkyl Pt(II) complexes containing a N,N'

evidences of a relevant π-backdonation in the Pt

Organometallics, 23 (2004) 2137.

10) Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Rovello, Francesco Ruffo

"Oxidative addition of phenylselenenyl halides to platinum(0) complexes: characterization and reactiv

products [PtX(SePh)(N,N-chelate)(olefin)] (X= Cl, Br, I)"

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2005) 416.

) Maria E. Cucciolito, Vincenzo De Felice, Ida Orabona, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

diphenyl-1,4-diphospha-cyclohexane to metal ions of Groups 9 and 10"

Ida Orabona, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

"Synthesis and characterisation of trigonal bipyramidal olefin platinum(II) complexes with chalcogenide ligands in axial

ray molecular structures of [Pt(SMe)2(dmphen)(diphenylfumarate)], its cationic derivative

(dmphen)(diphenylfumarate)](BF4)2 and free diphenylfumarate"

) Alceo Macchioni, Alessandra Magistrato, Ida Orabona, Francesco Ruffo, Ursula Röthlisberger, Cristiano Zuccaccia

"Direct observation of an equilibrium between two anion-cation orientations in olefin Pt(II) complex ion pairs by HOESY

Carmela Borriello, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo, Angela Saporito

glucose in the Rh(I) catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation of acetophenone"

) Carmela Borriello, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

"Preparation and catalytic properties of palladium(0) and rhodium(I) complexes containing new chiral P,N

Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

"Absolute configuration, coordination and stereochemical influence of 1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-2,6,9

Francesco Ruffo

X bonds and reductive elimination of Se-C bonds in platinum compounds containing hydrocarbyl

el Litto, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

Mn(III) complexes of chiral “salen” type ligands derived from carbohydrates in the asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes"

) Luigi Cavallo, Alceo Macchioni, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Daniele Zuccaccia, Ida Orabona, Francesco Ruffo

planar olefin/alkyl Pt(II) complexes containing a N,N'-imino,amide ligand. Experimental and theoretical

nation in the Pt-olefin bond"

) Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Rovello, Francesco Ruffo

"Oxidative addition of phenylselenenyl halides to platinum(0) complexes: characterization and reactiv

chelate)(olefin)] (X= Cl, Br, I)"

cyclohexane to metal ions of Groups 9 and 10"

Francesco Ruffo

"Synthesis and characterisation of trigonal bipyramidal olefin platinum(II) complexes with chalcogenide ligands in axial

hen)(diphenylfumarate)], its cationic derivative

Cristiano Zuccaccia

cation orientations in olefin Pt(II) complex ion pairs by HOESY

glucose in the Rh(I) catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation of acetophenone"

"Preparation and catalytic properties of palladium(0) and rhodium(I) complexes containing new chiral P,N-ligands derived

2,6,9-trioxo-bicyclo[3,3,1]nona-

C bonds in platinum compounds containing hydrocarbyl

Mn(III) complexes of chiral “salen” type ligands derived from carbohydrates in the asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes"

Francesco Ruffo

imino,amide ligand. Experimental and theoretical

"Oxidative addition of phenylselenenyl halides to platinum(0) complexes: characterization and reactivity of the

11) Federico Giordano, Ida Orabona, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

"Binuclear platinum complexes of 4,5-disubstituted xanthenes"

Inorg. Chim. Acta, 358 (2005) 1217.

12) Maria Elena Cucciolito, Raffaella Del Litto, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

"O,N,O' tridentate ligands derived from carbohydrates in the V(IV)-promoted asymmetric oxidation of thioanisole"

J. Mol. Catal. A: Chemical, 236 (2005) 176.

13) Carmela Borriello, Raffaella Del Litto, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

"A supported Mn(III)-catalyst based on D-glucose in the asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes"

Inorg. Chem. Commun., 8 (2005) 717.

14) Lorenzo De Napoli, Benedetto Di Blasio, Rosa Iacovino, Anna Messere, Carlo Pedone, Gennaro Piccialli, Alessandra

Romanelli, Francesco Ruffo

"Reactions of Pd(PPh3)4 with 3’,5’-di-O-acetylthymidine: oxidative addition of Pd(PPh3)4 on thymidine N3 and C4 atoms"

Organometallics, 24 (2005) 3401.

15) Vincenzo De Felice, Natascia Fraldi, Achille Panunzi, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

"Bis-chelating ligands based on bipyridine or bis-isoquinoline moieties with controlled rotation around the C-C bond"

Inorg. Chem. Commun., 8 (2005) 1049.

16) Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo, Angela Tuzi

“[(1,2,5,6-η)-cycloocta-1,5-diene)bis(4-methoxyphenyl)platinum(II)”

Acta Cryst. Section E - Struct. Reports on Line, (2006) E62

17) Raffaella Del Litto, Antonella De Roma, Alessandra D’Errico, Santo Magnolia, Francesco Ruffo

“Bis(phosphinoamides) based on sugars for highly enantioselective allylic substitution: inversion of stereocontrol by

switching from glucose to mannose”

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 17 (2006) 2265.

18) Elio Santacesaria, Mariangela Cozzolino, V. Balato, Riccardo Tesser, Martino Di Serio, Francesco Ruffo

“Preparation and characterisation of dispersed palladium catalysts supported on carbon previously treated with different

strong oxidants”

Chemistry for Sustainable Development, 14 (2006) 605.

19) Raffaella Del Litto, Antonella De Roma, Francesco Ruffo

“A convenient route from simple sugars to new chiral bis(phosphinoesters) for asymmetric catalysis”

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 10 (2007) 618.

20) Raffaella Del Litto, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

“Benzyl-4,6-O-isopropylidene-N-D-glucopyranoside,2-deossi-2-[[(2-hydroxy-3,5-di-tertbutylphenyl)-methylene]amino] as a

ligand for vanadium-catalyzed asymmetric oxidation of sulfides”

Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis Vol 5: Regio- and Stereo-controlled Oxidations and Reductions, Wiley (2007).

21) Vincenzo De Felice, Natascia Fraldi, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo, Angela Tuzi

“Coordination modes of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-diphenyl-1,4-benzodiphosphinine (bedip) to Pt and Pd metal ions: synthesis

and structural characterisation of mono- and bi-nuclear complexes”

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 692 (2007) 5211.

22) Maria Elena Cucciolito, Augusto de Renzi, Giuseppina Rovello, Francesco Ruffo

“Reactivity of cis-{PtII(Ar)(alkyne)} fragments (Ar = aryl): a domino-formation of indenes”

Organometallics, 27 (2008) 1351.

23) Vincenzo Benessere, Antonella De Roma, Francesco Ruffo

“Carbohydrates as building blocks of privileged ligands for multiphasic asymmetric catalysis”

ChemSusChem, 1 (2008) 425.

24) Antonella De Roma, Francesco Ruffo, Simon Woodward

“Amino-sugar modular ligands – useful cores for the formation of asymmetric copper 1,4-addition catalysts”

Chem. Commun., (2008) 5384.

25) Mauro Vaccaro, Raffaella Del Litto, Gaetano Mangiapia, Anna M. Carnerup, Gerardino DErrico, Francesco Ruffo and Luigi

Padano

“Lipid based nanovectors containing ruthenium complexes: a potential route in cancer therapy”

Chem. Commun., (2009) 1404.

26) Vincenzo Benessere, Raffaella Del Litto, Christina Moberg, Francesco Ruffo

“Carbohydrate-based pyridylamides for Mo-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylations”

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, (2009) 1352.

27) Marcello Casalino, Vincenzo De Felice, Natascia Fraldi, Achille Panunzi, Francesco Ruffo

“Binuclear complexes of bis-chelating ligands based on [1,4]dioxocino[6,5-b:7,8-b']dipyridine moieties”

Inorg. Chem., 48 (2009) 5913.

28) Vincenzo Benessere, Raffaella Del Litto, Antonella De Roma, Francesco Ruffo

“Carbohydrates as building blocks of privileged ligands”

Coord. Chem. Rev. 254 (2010) 390.

29) Maria Elena Cucciolito, Raffaella Del Litto, Francesco Paolo Fanizzi, Danilo Migoni, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

“Hydrophilic ligands derived from glucose: Synthesis, characterization and in vitro cytotoxic activity on cancer cells of Pt(II)

complexes”

Inorg. Chim. Acta, 363 (2010) 741.

30) Francesco Ruffo

“News items. The Division of Inorganic Chemistry at the 23d Congress of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI).” Chimica e

l'Industria, 92 (2010) 88.

31) Vincenzo Benessere, Francesco Ruffo

“Naplephos: a modular library of chiral phosphines based on D-glucose for highly enantioselective asymmetric catalysis.”

Tetrahedron: Asymm., 21 (2010) 171.

32) Maria Elena Cucciolito, Vincenzo De Felice, Giuseppina Roviello, Francesco Ruffo

“Three-coordinate [Pt(N,N’-chelate)(η2-olefin)] complexes: synthesis, properties and reactions with electrophiles”

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2011) 457.

33) Vincenzo Benessere, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo, Alba Silipo

“New tagged naplephos ligands for asymmetric allylic substitutions under traditional and unconventional conditions.”

Tetrahedron, 67 (2011) 4826.

34) Vincenzo Benessere, Antonella De Roma, Raffaella Del Litto, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo

“Naplephos through the looking-glass: chiral bis(phosphinoamides) based on β-1,2-D-glucodiamine and their application in

enantioselective allylic substitutions.”

Eur. J. Org. Chem., (2011) 5779.

35) Stefano D’Errico, Giorgia Oliviero, Vincenzo Piccialli, Jussara Amato, Nicola Borbone, Valentina D’Atri, Francesca

D’Alessio, Rosa Di Noto, Francesco Ruffo, Francesco Salvatore, Gennaro Piccialli

“Solid-phase synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of nucleoside-tethered dinuclear platinum(II) complexes”

Bioorg. & Med. Chem. Lett., 21 (2011) 5835.

36) Martino Di Serio, Giuseppina Carotenuto, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo, Riccardo Tesser, Marco

Trifuoggi

“Shiff base complexes of zinc(II) as catalysts for biodiesel production”

J. Mol. Catal. A, 353–354 (2012) 106.

37) Maria Elena Cucciolito, Francesco Ruffo

“Synthesis and Reactivity of Square-Planar PtII–η1-Hydrocarbyl Complexes Containing cis-Coordinated Olefin or Alkyne”

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2012) 599.

38) Jessica Margalef , Matteo Lega , Francesco Ruffo , Oscar Pamies , Montserrat Dieguez

“The application of pyranoside phosphite-pyridine ligands to enantioselective Ir-catalyzed hydrogenations of highly

unfunctionalized olefins”

Tetrahedron Asymmetry, (2012) 23.

39) Barbara Panunzi, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Francesco Ruffo, Angela Tuzi

“Preparation, structure, and metal coordination of 2-(2-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-perimidin-2-yl)benzene-1,3-diol”

Tetrahedron Letters, 54 (2013) 1503.

40) Matteo Lega, Rosario Figliolia, Christina Moberg, Francesco Ruffo

“Expanding the scope of the elpaN-Type library: glucose-derived bis(pyridine-2-carboxamide) ligands (elpaN-Py) for

molybdenum-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylations”

Tetrahedron, 69 (2013) 4061.

41) Maria E. Cucciolito, Barbara Panunzi, Angela Tuzi, Francesco Ruffo

“Napthalene-1,8-diamine-2-(pyrimidin-2-yl)-1H-perimidine”

Acta Cryst. Section E - Struct. Reports on Line, (2013) o1133

42) Francesco Ruffo, Alessandro Bismuto, Andrea Carpentieri, Maria E. Cucciolito, Matteo Lega, Angela Tuzi

“The elpaN-salen series: multifunctional ligands based on D-glucose for the Mn(III)-catalyzed enantioselective epoxidation

of styrenes”

Inorg. Chim. Acta, 45 (2013) 288-294.

43) Matteo Lega, Jessica Margalef, Francesco Ruffo, Oscar Pàmies, Montserrat Diéguez

“Application of pyranoside phosphite-pyridine ligands to enantioselective metal-catalyzed allylic substitution and

conjugate 1,4-addition”

Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 24 (2013) 995-1000.

44) Giulia Tarantino, Massimiliano Curcio, Andrea Pica, Andrea Carpentieri, Maria E. Cucciolito, Francesco Ruffo, Aldo

Vitagliano, Matteo Lega

“Hydrophilic Pd0 complexes based on sugars for efficient Suzuki–Miyaura coupling in aqueous systems”

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2014) 4199-4208.

45) Vincenzo Benessere, Maria E. Cucciolito, Giovanni Dal Poggetto, Martino Di Serio, Manuel López Granados, Francesco

Ruffo, Aldo Vitagliano, Rosa Vitiello

“Strategies for immobilizing homogeneous zinc catalysts in biodiesel production”

Catal. Commun., 56 (2014) 81-85.

46) Vincenzo Benessere, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo

“Rational design of pseudo-enantiomeric libraries of ligands based on pyranoses for application in asymmetric catalysis”

J. Organomet. Chem., 771 (2014) 105-116

47) Alessandro Bismuto, Maria E. Cucciolito, Francesco Ruffo, Aldo Vitagliano, Massimiliano Curcio

“Mild, selective and efficient oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides catalyzed by Mn(III)-salen complexes”

Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 190 (2015) 1021-1028.

48) Angela Dibenedetto, Antonella Angelini, Michele Aresta, Stefania Fasciano, Maria Elena Cucciolito, Francesco Ruffo,

Brunella Maria Aresta, Daniel Curulla-Ferré, Elvira De Giglio

“Synthesis of diethylcarbonate by ethanolysis of urea: A study on the recoverability and recyclability of new Zn-based

heterogeneous catalysts”

Applied Catalysis A: General, 493 (2015) 1-7.

49) Luisa Calvanese, Maria E. Cucciolito, Angela D’Amora, Gabriella D’Auria, Antonio Esposito, Roberto Esposito, Lucia

Falcigno, Francesco Ruffo

“Recognition of prochiral sulfides in five-coordinate Pt(II) complexes”

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2015) 4068-4075.

50) Vincenzo Benessere, Maria E. Cucciolito, Augusta De Santis, Martino Di Serio, Roberto Esposito, Francesco Ruffo, Rosa

Turco

“A sustainable process for the production of azelaic acid through oxidative cleavage of oleic acid”

J. Am. Oil. Chem. Soc., 92 (2015) 1701-1707.

51) Vincenzo Benessere, Maria E. Cucciolito, Martino Di Serio, Roberto Esposito, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo, Rosa Turco

“A novel and robust homogeneous supported catalyst for biodiesel production”

Fuel, 171 (2016) 1-4.

52) Maria E. Cucciolito, Matteo Lega, Veronica Papa, Francesco Ruffo

“Simple Zn(II) salts as efficient catalysts for the homogeneous trans-esterification of methyl esters”

Catal. Lett., 1 (2016) 1113-1117.