Giuseppe Resnati Explained

Giuseppe Resnati
Birth Date:	1955 8, df=y
Birth Place:	Monza, Italy
Module:	Embed: yes Alma Mater: University of Milan Thesis Title: Asymmetric Synthesis Via Chiral Sulfoxides Thesis Year: 1988 Doctoral Students: Pierangelo Metrangolo Known For: halogen bond, chalcogen bond, and pnictogen bond Awards: van der Waals Prize^[1] (2021)

Giuseppe Resnati (born 26 August 1955) 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,^[2] chalcogen bonds,^[3] and pnictogen bonds.^[4] 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.^[5]

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^[6] and synthesis via perfluorinated reagents (perfluorinated oxaziridines as powerful yet selective oxidizing agents)^[7]
• fluorinated contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging^[8]
• intermolecular forces and their use in crystal engineering,^[9] supramolecular chemistry,^[10] Borromean rings,^[11] and self-assembly processes^[12] in the design and preparation of functional materials^{[13] [14]}
• halogen bond^{[15] [16]} and iodine chemistry; chalcogen bond.
• green chemistry

Honors and awards

• van der Waals Prize 2021 (awarded in 2022 by the 2nd International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions, ICNI-2022)^[17]
• RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences^[18] (awarded in 2010 by Royal Society of Chemistry/Società Chimica Italiana)
• Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry Award^[19] (awarded in 2008 by Società Chimica Italiana)
• Corrado Fuortes award (awarded in 1986 by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere)
• Member of the Academia Europaea^[20] (since 2012)
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier,^[21] 2001-2023); of Crystals (MDPI, 2015 onwards); of Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy (Elsevier, 2017-2019)
• Topic Editor of Crystal Growth & Design (ACS)^[22] (2012 onwards)
• Member of the International Steering Committee of the: -International Conference on Noncovalent Intereactions (ICNI) from ICNI-1 (Lisbon, Portugal; 2019) onwards; -International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) from ISFC-15 (Vancouver, Canada; 1997) to ISFC-23 (Quebec, Canada; 2023); -International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry (HalChem) from Halchem-V (Cagliari, Italy; 2010) onwards; -European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC) from ESFC-11 (Bled, Slovenia; 1995) onwards
• Chair of the: -21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23-28 August 2015, Como, Italy); -1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-1)(18-22 June 2014, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy)^[23]
• Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4-8 September 2016, Venice, Italy); 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^[24]
• Coordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network “GREENOMIcS - Green Chemistry Excellence from the Baltic See to the Mediterranean See and Beyond” (2017 onwards)
• President of the Rotary Club Rozzano Parco Sud in the rotarian year 2006-'07; assistant of the Governor of the District 2050 (south Lombardy) from 2009 to 2013; advisor of District 2050 Governor for starting Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia (2012), Club charter member (2013) and president (2015–16)^[25]
• Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (2022)^[26]
• Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2020)^[27]
• Knight of Merit with Silver Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (SMOCSG) (2020).^[28]

Notes and References

1. Web site: ICNI-2022, The van der Waals Prize.
2. Halogen Bonding: Fundamentals and Applications Metrangolo, P. and Resnati, G. Eds.; 2008; Springer; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
3. G. Resnati et al. The Chalcogen Bond in Crystalline Solids: A World Parallel to Halogen Bond Accounts of Chemical Research 2019, 52, 1311-1324 (DOI: org/10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00037)
4. G. Resnati et al. Definition of the pnictogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2023) Pure and Applied Chemistry 2024, 96, 135-145 (DOI: org/10.1515/pac-2020-1002)
5. G. Resnati et al. Naming Interactions from the Electrophilic Site Cryst. Growth & Des. 2014, 96, 135-145 (DOI: org/0.1021/cg5001717)
6. G. Resnati Synthesis of Chiral and Bioactive Fluoroorganic Compounds Tetrahedron 1993, 49, 9385-9445 (DOI:10.1016/S00404020(01)80212-X)
7. G. Resnati et al. Perfluorinated Oxaziridines: Synthesis and Reactivity Chemical Reviews 1996, 96, 1809-1824 (DOI: 10.1021/cr941146h)
8. G. Resnati et al. 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): From Design of Materials to Clinical Applications Chemical Reviews 2015, 115, 1106−1129 (DOI: org/10.1021/cr500286d)
9. Web site: Resnati coordinated an IUPAC project on crystal engineering.
10. G. Resnati et al. Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular Chemistry Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 6114-6127 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800128)
11. G. Resnati et al. Halogen bonded Borromean networks by design: topology invariance and metric tuning in a library of multi-component systems Chemical Sci. 2017 (DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04478F)
12. G. Resnati et al. Halogen Bonding Based Recognition Processes: A World Parallel to Hydrogen Bonding Acc. Chem. Res. 2005, 38, 386-395 (DOI: 10.1021/ar0400995)
13. G. Resnati et al. An Adaptable and Dynamically Porous Organic Salt Traps Unique Tetrahalide Dianions Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13444-13448 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307552)
14. G. Resnati et al. Halogen-bonding-triggered supramolecular gel formation Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 42-47 (DOI:10.1038/nchem.1496)
15. Halogen Bonding I - Impact on Materials Chemistry and Life Sciences Metrangolo P. and Resnati G. Eds.; 2014; Springer; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
16. Halogen Bonding II - Impact on Materials Chemistry and Life Sciences Metrangolo P. and Resnati G. Eds.; 2015; Springer; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
17. Web site: ICNI-2022, The van der Waals Prize.
18. Web site: RCS News, June 2011, pag. 30: RCS-SCI Award to Giuseppe Resnati.
19. Web site: Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry awards.
20. Web site: Academy of Europe: Resnati Giuseppe.
21. Book: Journal of Fluorine Chemistry: Editorial Board.
22. Crystal Growth & Design Around the World in 2012, DOI:10.1021/cg201654d. Crystal Growth & Design. 12. 1–2. 10.1021/cg201654d. 2012. Rogers. Robin D.. free.
23. Web site: ISXB-1.
24. Web site: Official Web-site of the Faraday Discussion.
25. Web site: Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia.
26. Web site: L'Orma, anno XL, N.1, Marzo 2022.
27. Web site: Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
28. Web site: Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Spain).