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<strong>Con</strong> <strong>profondo</strong> <strong>dolore</strong> <strong>annunciamo</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>scomparsa</strong> <strong>del</strong> P rofessor <strong>Gian</strong><br />
P aolo Chiusoli, membro <strong>del</strong>l’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e<br />
P rofessore Emerito <strong>del</strong>l’Università di P arma, dove aveva ricoperto <strong>la</strong><br />
cattedra di Chimica Organica Industriale a partire dal 1975. I risultati<br />
<strong>del</strong><strong>la</strong> sua attività di ricerca sono punti di riferimento per <strong>la</strong> comunità<br />
scientifica internazionale e costituiscono vanto per <strong>la</strong> nostra comunità<br />
nazionale.<br />
Born Treviso (Italy), 7 June 1923<br />
<strong>Professor</strong>, Industrial Organic Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale <strong>del</strong>le Scienze, 43100 Parma.<br />
Tel.(521)905554, 905555; FAX (521)905472<br />
Working for almost three decades in Industry <strong>Gian</strong> Paolo Chiusoli has set up the first basic research in an<br />
Italian industrial chemical <strong>la</strong>boratory, the Donegani Research Institute at Novara. Here he discovered new<br />
selective catalytic syntheses based on multiple activation of simple molecules such as carbon monoxide,<br />
acetylene and carbon dioxide under mild conditions. He became Director of the Donegani Institute in<br />
1966. Next he moved to the University of Parma (1975), where with another group he found new<br />
vanguard techniques of chemistry, based on the use of metals in catalytic reaction sequences suitable for<br />
the selective formation and functionalization of organic molecules.<br />
During the industrial period he has set up basic research in Chemistry for the first time in an Italian<br />
research <strong>la</strong>boratory. He discovered new methods for the construction of complex organic molecules under<br />
the catalytic action of metal complexes in ordered sequences. He further extended the concept during the<br />
Academic period with the discovery of several new reactions based on pal<strong>la</strong>dium or rhodium catalysis.<br />
He is the author of more than 250 papers in international Journals and of 127 industrial patents.<br />
He received prizes for his research activity from Italian Chemical Society (1972), from Accademia dei<br />
Lincei (1984), from the Organometallic Division (1992), and from Federchimica (1997). In 1989 he<br />
received a medal from the Ministry of Education. In 1993 he was dedicated a special volume of the<br />
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. He is or was a member of the Emeritus Editorial board of the<br />
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Transition Metal Chemistry, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana. Since 1989<br />
he is a member of the National Academy of Lincei Since 1999 he is Emeritus <strong>Professor</strong> of the University<br />
of Parma, where I continues to work.<br />
Main innovations<br />
· Nickelcatalyzed sequential insertion reactions: Gazz. Chim. Ital., 89, 1332 (1959);<br />
Angew.Chem., 72, 74(1960); Synthesis, 509 (1973); Acc. Chem. Res. 6, 422 (1973).<br />
· CC coupling of allylnickel complexes: Tetrahedron Lett.,1591 (1963); Chim. Ind. (Mi<strong>la</strong>n), 43,<br />
365 (1961); Ang.Chem.Int.Ed.Engl., 17, 353 (1978).<br />
· Reformatski reaction with CO2: Chem. Ind. (London), 1457 (1966.)<br />
· Carboxy<strong>la</strong>tion of organic substrates with CO2 promoted by alkali phenoxides : Chem. Comm.,<br />
618 (1966); Gazz. Chim. Ital., 103, 105 (1973).<br />
· Cyclization of dienoic acids to phenols : Proc. Chem. Soc., 310 (1963).
· Oxidative carbony<strong>la</strong>tion of acetylene : Chem. Ind. (London), 977 (1968).<br />
· Coupling of acrylonitrile to adiponitrile on cobalt(0): Chem. Comm., 1515 (1968).<br />
· Asymmetric carbony<strong>la</strong>tion of styrene at room temperature and atmospheric pressure: J.<br />
Organomet. Chem., 236, C31 (1982)).<br />
· Che<strong>la</strong>tionassisted reactions Rearrangement of allyl 3butenoate :J.C.S.Chem.Comm., 793<br />
(1977); J. Mol. Cat., 41, 75 (1987)); J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 1, 1347 (1994)).<br />
· Ary<strong>la</strong>tion via aroyl chlorides: Trans. Metal Chem., 4,398 (1979)).<br />
· Multiple insertions terminated by H (de<strong>la</strong>yed hydrogenolysis): J. Organomet. Chem., 199, C21<br />
(1980)).<br />
· Oxidative carbony<strong>la</strong>tion of styrene : J. Organomet. Chem., 181, C14 (1979).<br />
· Catalysis by pal<strong>la</strong>dium(0) of catalysis of diene addition to double bonds by rhodium(I): J. Chem.<br />
Soc. Chem. Comm.,1303 (1990)).<br />
· Metal<strong>la</strong>cyclepromoted reactions. Cobalt(0) metal<strong>la</strong>cycles as catalysts: J. Chem. Soc. Chem.<br />
Comm., 1632 (1990))<br />
· Metal<strong>la</strong>cycle promoted reactions. Aromatic and alifatic CH activation (first paper: J. Organomet.<br />
Chem., 233, C21 (1982); Pure Appl. Chem., 62, 623 (1990)).<br />
· Pal<strong>la</strong>dium(IV) metal<strong>la</strong>cycles: J. Organomet. Chem., 346, C27 (1988); Gazz. Chim. Ital., 123, 1<br />
(1993)).<br />
· Synthesis of pyrrolediacetic acid by oxidative rbony<strong>la</strong>tion : Synthesis, 262 (1989).<br />
· Combination of pal<strong>la</strong>diumcatalyzed oxidative carbony<strong>la</strong>tion with reduction in a single process: J.<br />
Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm., 2429 (1994).<br />
· Carbony<strong>la</strong>tion of alkynes to beta<strong>la</strong>ctones and <strong>la</strong>ctams: J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm., 1429<br />
(1994); Tetrahedron Lett. 36, 7495 (1995)).<br />
· Pal<strong>la</strong>diumcatalyzed multicomponent reactions to form heterocyclic rings: J. Organomet. Chem.,<br />
371, C51 (1989); Tetrahedron Lett., 35, 5919,5923 (1994).<br />
· Direct incorporation of carbon dioxide into amines: J. Chem. Soc.Chem. Comm. 16691700<br />
(1999); J. Chem Soc Perkin Trans. 15411546 (1998).<br />
· Sequential reactions of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide: Chem. Comm. 13811382 (1999);<br />
J. Mol. Cat. A Chemical 143, 297310 (1999).<br />
· Catalytic carboncarbon coupling through CH activation: Coord. Chem. Rev. 254, 456459<br />
(2010).<br />
The problem of Darwinian evolution in Chemistry has been examined recently: Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 20,<br />
199209 (2009)<br />
Chiusoli also coedited with Peter Maitlis a book on Metalcatalysis in Industrial Organic Processes<br />
published by RSC in 2006 and 2008