Fausto Calderazzo (March 8, 1930. Parma – June 1, 2014. Pisa) was an Italian inorganic chemist. He gained renown from numerous contributions in inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry.[1][2] Calderazzo died in Pisa, on June 1, 2014, at the age of 84.[3]
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| Born | March 8, 1930 |
| Died | June 1, 2014 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Italian |
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Life, education, and research
editFausto Calderazzo was born in Parma, on March 8th 1930, where his father served in the Royal Italian army. He entered the University of Florence, in November 1947. Calderazzo worked in the laboratory of Luigi Sacconi.Bertini, Ivano (1992). "Luigi Sacconi february 1911–september 1992". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 120: ix–xii. doi:10.1016/0010-8545(92)80044-R. After the compulsory military service, Calderazzo joined the research group of Giulio Natta, a future Nobel laureate. At Cyanamid European Research Institute, his first independent position, he started to his work leading to V(CO)6.[4] He also assembled a team of future scholars, including Carlo Floriani.
Calderazzo extended his interest in carbonyl chemistry of the late transition metals such as Pd, Pt[5] and Au (figure 2)[6] in addition to the so called “non classical” carbonyl compounds.[7][8]
Other contributions from the work in Pisa are studies around derivates of early transition metals, which expanded and clarified the knowledge on this area of Periodic Table.[9][10] Calderazzo alsp carried out research involving carbon dioxide complexes as a C1 synthon for organic synthesis. They synthesized N,N-dialkylcarbamato complexes of elements, from transition to lanthanide metals, using secondary amines, CO2 and suitable precursors.[11]
Awards and Titles
editCalderazzo was a member of the editorial or advisor board of international scientific journals. He was a member of the Société Royale de Chemie (1987), Società Chimica Italiana and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1989). He received the A. Miolati award in Inorganic Chemistry in 1988 and the L. Sacconi Medal in 1998.
References
edit- ^ P. M. Maitlis, D. B. Dell’Amico. "Fausto Calderazzo: Pioneer in Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry". 'Organometallics, 2014, 33, 6989–7006. https://doi.org/10.1021/om5011963
- ^ Poli, R. (1999). "Celebration of inorganic lives". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 188: 1–22. doi:10.1016/S0010-8545(99)00081-8.
- ^ Lunedì, Luca (June 3, 2014). "È morto Fausto Calderazzo studioso di fama mondiale" [Fausto Calderazzo, world-renowned scholar, has died]. Il Tirreno (in Italian). Retrieved May 13, 2024.
- ^ Ercoli, R.; Calderazzo, F.; Alberola, A. (1960). "Synthesis of Vanadium Hexacarbonyl". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 82 (11): 2966–2967. doi:10.1021/ja01496a073.
- ^ Dell'Amico, Daniela Belli; Calderazzo, Fausto; Marchetti, Fabio; Ramello, Stefano (1996). "Molecular Structure of [Pd6Cl12] in Single Crystals Chemically Grown at Room Temperature". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 35 (12): 1331–1333. doi:10.1002/anie.199613311.
- ^ Dell'Amico, Daniela Belli; Calderazzo, Fausto; Marchetti, Fabio; Merlino, Stefano; Perego, Giovanni (1977). "X-Ray crystal and molecular structure of Au4Cl8, the product of the reduction of Au2Cl6 by Au(CO)Cl". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications: 31. doi:10.1039/C39770000031.
- ^ Dell'Amico, Daniela Belli; Calderazzo, Fausto; Robino, Pierluigi; Segre, Annalaura (1991). "Halogenocarbonyl complexes of gold". Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (11): 3017. doi:10.1039/DT9910003017.
- ^ >Bistoni, Giovanni; Rampino, Sergio; Scafuri, Nicola; Ciancaleoni, Gianluca; Zuccaccia, Daniele; Belpassi, Leonardo; Tarantelli, Francesco (2016). "How π back-donation quantitatively controls the CO stretching response in classical and non-classical metal carbonyl complexes". Chemical Science. 7 (2): 1174–1184. doi:10.1039/C5SC02971F. PMC 5975789. PMID 29910872.
- ^ Calderazzo, Fausto; Englert, Ulli; Guarini, Alessandro; Marchetti, Fabio; Pampaloni, Guido; Segre, Annalaura (1994). "[Zr3Cp2(O2CN i Pr2)6(μ-O)(μ-CCO)], the First Crystallographically Established Ketenylidene Complex; A Model for CO Reductive Cleavage on Metal Surfaces". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 33 (11): 1188–1189. doi:10.1002/anie.199411881.
- ^ Calderazzo, Fausto; Pampaloni, Guido (1995). "Aromatic hydrocarbons, carbocyclic ligands spanning several oxidation states in both Main Group and transition elements. Recent advances with early transition d elements". Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 500 (1–2): 47–60. doi:10.1016/0022-328X(95)00505-K.
- ^ >Dell'Amico, Daniela Belli; Calderazzo, Fausto; Labella, Luca; Marchetti, Fabio; Pampaloni, Guido (2003). "Converting Carbon Dioxide into Carbamato Derivatives". Chemical Reviews. 103 (10): 3857–3898. doi:10.1021/cr940266m. PMID 14531715.