Publication date: 15th December 2025
Catalysis has a fundamental role to solve arduous tasks in synthetic chemistry and is thus involved in the global economy in many industrial fields. In fact, in the last 50 years, catalysis has seen enormous progress in the development of optimized large-scale productions within the area of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and petrochemical industry. Moreover, a catalytic approach presents multiple benefits for business and sustainability compared to stoichiometric processes. These include cost reduction, time and energy saving, waste reduction, carbon-footprint minimization, among others. In this context, our research activity aims at designing and developing novel catalytic organic transformations which address unsolved problems in synthetic chemistry. The final goal is therefore the production of effective, inexpensive and safe catalytic systems that will find widespread use in modern organic synthesis. To this end, we effectively employed aromatic molecules as photocatalytic systems to drive the synthesis of relevant organic compounds. As a matter of fact, the great structural variety of these molecules combined with the easy fine-tuning of their electronic properties has unlocked new possibilities for the generation of reactive intermediates under mild operative conditions.[1-2] In addition, we worked on the development of novel nano-catalytic organic transformations. In particular, we design new carbon-based nano-organocatalytic systems, namely carbon nitrides and carbon dots.[3-7] These materials have been efficiently used to drive relevant organic reactions, including enantioselective transformations, under mild operative conditions.
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