Giuseppe Resnati
Giuseppe Resnati is an Italian chemist with interests in supramolecular chemistry and fluorine chemistry. He has a particular focus on self-assembly processes driven by halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, and pnictogen bonds. His results on the attractive non-covalent interactions wherein atoms act as electrophiles thanks to the anisotropic distribution of the electron density typical for bonded atoms, prompted a systematic rationalization and categorization of many different weak bonds formed by many elements of the p- and d-blocks of the periodic table.
Education and professional positions
Resnati was born in Monza, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan in 1988 with Prof. Carlo Scolastico and a thesis on asymmetric synthesis via chiral sulfoxides. After a period of activity at the Italian National Research Council, in 2001 he became professor of chemistry for materials at the Politecnico di Milano.Research interests
His research interests cover/have covered the following topics:- enantioselective synthesis of mono- and polyfluorinated compounds and synthesis via perfluorinated reagents
- fluorinated contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging
- intermolecular forces and their use in crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry, Borromean rings, and self-assembly processes in the design and preparation of functional materials
- halogen bond and iodine chemistry; chalcogen bond.
- green chemistry
Honors and awards
van der Waals Prize 2021 RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry Award Corrado Fuortes award- Invited professor at the University of Strasbourg
- Invited professor at the Nagoya University
- Invited professor at the Paris-Sud University
- Senior NATO Fellowship
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry ; of Crystals ; of Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy
- Topic Editor of Crystal Growth & Design
- Member of the International Steering Committee of the: -International Conference on Noncovalent Intereactions from ICNI-1 onwards; -International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) from ISFC-15 to ISFC-24 ; -International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry from Halchem-V onwards; -European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC) from ESFC-11 onwards
- Chair of the: -21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry ; -1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding
- Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry ; member of the International Scientific Committee of the 2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, 14–17 May 2017, Berlin, Germany; member of the Committee of the Faraday Discussion "Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry", 10–12 July 2017, Ottawa, Canada
- Coordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network “GREENOMIcS - Green Chemistry Excellence from the Baltic See to the Mediterranean See and Beyond”
- President of the Rotary Club Rozzano Parco Sud in the rotarian year 2006-'07; assistant of the Governor of the District 2050 from 2009 to 2013; advisor of District 2050 Governor for starting Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia, Club charter member and president
- Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Knight Commander with Star of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
- Knight of Merit with Silver Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George ; Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ; Knight of the Order of Prince Danilo I.