Giuseppe Resnati

Giuseppe Resnati
Born (1955-08-26) 26 August 1955 (age 69)
Monza, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Milan
Known forhalogen bond, chalcogen bond, and pnictogen bond
Awards
van der Waals Prize[2] (2021)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Asymmetric Synthesis Via Chiral Sulfoxides  (1988)
Doctoral studentsPierangelo Metrangolo

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,[3] chalcogen bonds,[4] and pnictogen bonds.[5] 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.[6]

  1. ^ "RCS News, June 2011, pag. 30: RCS-SCI Award to Giuseppe Resnati" (PDF).
  2. ^ "ICNI-2022, The van der Waals Prize".
  3. ^ Halogen Bonding: Fundamentals and Applications Metrangolo, P. and Resnati, G. Eds.; 2008; Springer; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. ISBN 978-3-540-74329-3
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ G. Resnati et al. Naming Interactions from the Electrophilic Site Cryst. Growth & Des. 2014, 96, 135-145 (DOI: org/0.1021/cg5001717)