Bassetti Mauro

Biography

Mauro Bassetti was born in Milano in 1953. He studied Chemistry at Università “La Sapienza” in Roma, where he obtained the Laurea cum laude in 1978 with a thesis on the mercuration of olefins, under the supervision of Barbara Floris and the late Gabriello Illuminati. He was a National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellow at Auburn Universityand Virginia Commonwealth University in the years 1979–1982, working with Lidia Vallarino on the synthesis of lanthanide chelate complexes. After joining the Centro CNR di Studio sui Meccanismi di Reazione in 1984, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Sheffield during the 1990s in the group of Peter Maitlis, and at the University of Virginia in 1998 in the group of James Demas. He has been a WG coordinator of projects related to ruthenium chemistry for catalysis, in the program COST Chemistry, Actions D12 and D24. Within this topic, he has extensively collaborated with the group of Josè Gimeno in Oviedo (Asturias, Spain).

Research Interest

Organic chemistry