Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase
Center for Colloid and Surface Science

Personal information

Position: Permanent Staff

Email: porcheddu@unica.it

Phone: +39 070 6754410

Location: Cagliari


1) Fields of Interest and Expertise

- Design of novel strategies for using cyanuric chloride (TCT) in friendly organic processes

- Synthesis of quinuclidine derivatives

- Synthesis of chimera molecules possessing complex molecular architecture

- Green Chemistry

- Borrowing Hydrogen and Transfer Hydrogenation

- C-H bond activation

- Mechanochemistry

2) Teaching:

- Organic Chemistry II

- Green Chemistry

- The Chemistry of Heterocycles

3) Curriculum Vitae

1995: Degree in Chemistry at the University of Sassari with first-class honours. Thesis on

“Synthesis of piperazic acid derivatives as CPP analogues”.

1999: PhD in Chemistry at the University of Sassari. Thesis on “Designing novel strategies

to use cyanuric chloride (TCT) in friendly organic processes ”

2000: post-doctoral studies at the Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France) working

on the synthesis of quinuclidine derivatives

2001: Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Sassari.

2015: Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Geological Science, University

of Cagliari.

2021: Full Professor at the Department of Chemical and Geological Science, University of

Cagliari.

Unit

Publications

Application of Bertagnini's Salts in a Mechanochemical Approach Toward Aza-Heterocycles and Reductive Aminations via Imine Formation

- Behera S. - Kanti Bera S. - Basoccu F. - Cuccu F. - Caboni P. - De Luca L. - Andrea Porcheddu
Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Visible Light-Promoted Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Alcohols to Esters

- Dellisanti A. - Chessa E. - Andrea Porcheddu - Carraro M. - Pisano L. - De Luca L. - Gaspa S.
Molecules

Green metrics in mechanochemistry

- Fantozzi N. - Volle J.N. - Andrea Porcheddu - Virieux D. - García F. - Colacino E.
Chemical Society Reviews

Ammonia Synthesis by Mechanochemistry

- Cuccu F. - Browne D.L. - Andrea Porcheddu
ChemCatChem

Oxidovanadium(IV) sulfate catalyses light-driven C–N bond formation

- Gaspa S. - Sciortino G. - Andrea Porcheddu - Dell'Osa C. - Satta G. - Azzena U. - Pisano L. - Carraro M. - Sanna D. - Garribba E. - Maseras F. - De Luca L.
Molecular Catalysis

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