Dr. Gennaro Pescitelli Curriculum Vitae - Dipartimento di Chimica e ...

Dr. Gennaro Pescitelli
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position Ricercatore (lecturer) in Organic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry,
University of Pisa
Address Department of Chemistry, University of Pisa, via Risorgimento 35 – 56126 Pisa ITALY
Phone: +39 050 2219298 - Fax: +39 050 2219260 - e-mail: ripes@dcci.unipi.it
Personal Data Born 17/03/1972 in Benevento, Italy
Education Year 1997 “Laurea” (BSc) in Chemistry, University of Pisa, with summa cum
laude
Professional
Experience
Area of
Scientific
activity
Recent research
projects
Year 2000 PhD in Organic Chemistry, University of Pisa
From 2006 Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry,
University of Pisa
2002-6 Research activity at Department of Chemistry, Pisa, supported by
two research grants provided by University of Pisa
2001-2 Post-Doctoral stage under the supervision of Prof Koji Nakanishi
and Nina Berova, at Columbia University, New York
1998-2000 Doctoral stage under the supervision of Prof Piero Salvadori at
the Department of Chemistry, University of Pisa
Structural elucidation of organic and organometallic molecules employed as chiral catalysts
and auxiliaries in enantioselective catalysis and other molecular recognition processes.
Structural investigations of biomolecules, biomimetic systems and supramolecular adducts;
of polymers employed as technological devices; of organic compounds endowed with
biological and pharmaceutical activity. Development of new methods for stereochemical
determinations by means of spectroscopic techniques (NMR, CD, VCD). Molecular
modelling of organic molecules with molecular mechanics, semi-empirical and ab initio
methods. Non-empirical calculations of chiroptical and electronic properties of organic
molecules and metal complexes.
Assignment of absolute configuration of bio-active fungal secondary metabolites
with a novel solid-state CD-TDDFT method
Structural elucidation of enantioselective metal-BINOLates catalysts in solution

Recent
publications
N. Berova, L. Di Bari, G. Pescitelli, Application of electronic circular dichroism in
configurational and conformational analysis of organic compounds, Chem. Soc.
Rev., 2007, in print
H. Hussain, K. Krohn, U. Flörke, B. Schulz, S. Draeger, G. Pescitelli, S. Antus, T.
Kurtán, Absolute Configurations of Globosuxanthone A and Secondary
Metabolites from Microdiplodia sp. - A Novel Solid-State CD/TDDFT Approach,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 292-295
F. Babudri, D. Colangiuli, L. Di Bari, G. M. Farinola, O. Hassan Omar, F. Naso,
G. Pescitelli, Synthesis and Chiroptical Characterization of an Amino Acid
Functionalized Dialkoxypoly(p-phenyleneethynylene), Macromolecules, 2006,
39, 5206-5212
L. Di Bari, G. Pescitelli, P. Salvadori, M. Rovini, M. Anzini, A. Cappelli, S.
Vomero, Synthesis, resolution, and absolute configuration of two novel and
selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors based on the 1,5-diarylpyrrole structure,
Tetrahedron: Asymm., 2006, 17, 3430-3436
G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari, P. Salvadori, Effect of water on BINOL/Ti(OiPr)4 solution
mixtures: The nature of a catalytic precursor of enantioselective sulfoxidation, J.
Organomet. Chem., 2006, 691, 2311-2318
G. Maheut, A. Castaings, J. Pécaut, L. M. Lawson Daku, G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari,
J.-C. Marchon, Chiroptical and Computational Studies of a Bridled
Chiroporphyrin and of its Nickel(II), Copper (II), and Zinc (II) Complexes, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 6347-6356
K. Tanaka, G. Pescitelli, K. Nakanishi, N. Berova, Fluorescence Detected Exciton
Coupled Circular Dichroism: Development of New Fluorescent Reporter Groups for
Structural Studies, Monatsh. Chem., 2005, 136, 367-395
G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari, P. Salvadori, Multiple Solution Species of Titanium(IV) 1,1-Bi-
2-Naphtholate Elucidated by NMR and CD Spectroscopy, Organometallics 2004, 23,
4223-4229
L. Di Bari, G. Pescitelli, P. Salvadori, Determination of Absolute Configuration of
Acyclic 1,2-Diols with [Mo2(OAc)4], Part 2: New Structural Evidence toward a
Rationale of the Method: What Remains of [Mo2(OAc)4] in DMSO Solution?, Chem.
Eur. J., 2004, 10, 1205-1214
G. Pescitelli, S. Gabriel, Y. Wang, J. Fleischhauer, R. W. Woody, N. Berova,
Theoretical Analysis of the Porphyrin-Porphyrin Exciton Intercation in Circular
Dichroism Spectra of Dimeric Tetraarylporphyrins, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125,
7613-7628

Recent
communications
to congresses
and symposia
2006: G. Pescitelli, Analisi dell’interazione eccitonica in sistemi bistetraarilporfirinici,
XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana
SCI2006, Firenze.
2005: Computation of CD spectra - tools for quantitative stereochemical
investigation, ISCD-17 17th International Symposium on Chirality, Parma.
2005: G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari, P. Salvadori, Conformational Investigations of
Catalytically Active 1,1 '-binaphthylic Systems, 10th International Conference on
Circular Dichroism, Destin (FL, USA).
2003: G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari, P. Salvadori, Coupled Oscillator Calculations of
CD spectra. What space is left in the computational era?, CD 2003 9th
International Conference on Circular DIchroism in Chemistry and Life Sciences,
Budapest.
2003: G. Pescitelli, L. Di Bari, K. Tanaka, N. Berova, P. Salvadori, Assegnazione
della configurazione assoluta di substrati cumarinici mediante metodi non empirici di
dicroismo circolare, SCI2003 XXI Congresso nazionale della Società Chimica
Italiana, Torino