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Address
for correspondence
Department of Chemistry Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892
Phone: 713-348-3762
E-mail: vincenzo.russo@rice.edu
Current
Research Interests
- Synthesis of N-heterocyclic
carbenes (NHCs) and NHC-allylcopper complexes via Silicon-Copper
transmetallation.
- Allylation of electrophiles with NHC-Cu catalysts.
Past
Research Interests
- Synthesis of adamantane-like structures.
- Density Functional Theory (DFT).
- Quantum theory of solvation: Polarizable Continuum Model (PCM), with applications to electron transfer reactions in organic molecules.
- Theoretical investigation of sigmatropic migrations.
Education and Training
- 2008-: PhD candidate, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Zachary T. Ball.
- 2006-2008: M.A. Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas (conferred in January 2009). Advisor: Prof. Dr. Zachary T. Ball.
- 2004-2006: M.S. Physical Chemistry, University of Pisa, Italy, 110/110 summa cum laude. Thesis: "Theoretical study of energy and charge transfer phenomena in fotoexcited molecules." Advisors: Prof. Dr. Benedetta Mennucci and Prof. Dr. Jacopo Tomasi. Galileo Galilei School of Graduate Studies Fellowship.
- Summer 2003: Visiting Scholar, research group of Prof. Dr. Michele Parrinello, Swiss National Supercomputing Center and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
- 2001-2004: B.S. Chemistry, University of Messina, Italy, 110/110 summa cum laude. Thesis: "Quantum mechanical study of Sigmatropic migrations." Advisor: Prof. Dr. Maria Chiara Aversa.
Awards
- 2001: "Alfieri del Lavoro" Prize, medal of the President of the Italian Republic as one of the best 25 high-school students in the country.
- 2001: Gold Medal at the Olympics of Chemistry in Sicily.
Posters
- "Assessment of density functionals for the
determination of excitation energies," 19th Annual
Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
June 2007.
Publications
1) Russo, V.; Curutchet, C.; Mennucci, B. "Towards a Molecular Scale Interpretation of Excitation Energy Transfer in Solvated Bichromophoric Systems (II)," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111 (4), 853.
Affiliations
- American Chemical Society (2008).
Personal information
Languages: Italian and English.
Born in Pinerolo (Turin), Italy, September-12th-1982, Italian Citizen.
Last
update: 06/05/2008.