Transition Metal Catalysis in Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation

Dr Francesca Cardona was born in Florence, Italy. After her Ph. D. in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. A. Brandi (1998) she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in the group of Prof. P. Vogel (1999-2000). From 2002 she is a researcher at the University of Florence. In 2006 she received the G. Ciamician silver medal of the Italian Chemical Society, as the best organic chemist of the year under 35 years old. She has more than 50 publications and 5 chapters in scientific books. Research interests: stereoselective syntheses of iminosugars, new green oxidation methods, parallel kinetic resolutions by cycloaddition reactions. Dr Camilla Parmeggiani was born in Fiesole, Italy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. A. Goti, University of Florence. She investigated the synthesis of polyhydroxylated iminosugars with Prof. A. Goti at the University of Florence, organometallic addition to nitrones to obtain pyridine-based iminosugars with Prof. P. Merino during her degree work at the University of Zaragoza and allenes addition to nitrones with Prof. H.-U. Rei?ig at Freie Universitaet in Berlin during her Ph.D. course. She is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship at CNR-INO working on liquid crystal elastomers syntheses with Prof. D. Wiersma.