Giuseppe Resnati (born 26 August 1955) is an Italian chemist with interests in fluorine chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. He had a particular focus on self-assembly processes driven by halogen bonds.
Education and professional positions
Resnati was born in Monza, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan in 1988 with Prof. Carlo Scolastico and a thesis on asymmetric synthesis via chiral sulfoxides. After a period of activity at the Italian National Research Council, in 2001 he became professor of chemistry for materials at the Politecnico di Milano.
His research interests cover/have covered the following topics:
enantioselective synthesis of mono- and polyfluorinated compounds and synthesis via perfluorinated reagents (perfluorinated oxaziridines as powerful yet selective oxidizing agents)fluorinated contrast agents for magnetic resonance imagingintermolecular forces and their use in crystal engineering; supramolecular chemistry, Borromean rings, and self-assembly processes in the design and preparation of functional materialshalogen bond and iodine chemistry.green chemistryHonors and awards
Corrado Fuortes award (1986, awarded by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere)Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry award (2008, awarded by Società Chimica Italiana)RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences (2010, awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry/Società Chimica Italiana)Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2012)Member of the European Academy of Sciences (since 2015)Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier) (2001 onwards); of Crystals (MDPI) (2015 onwards); of Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy (Elsevier) (2017 onwards)Topic Editor of Crystal Growth & Design (ACS) (2012 onwards)Member of the International Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry from the symposium in Bled (1995) and onwards; of the International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry from the symposium in Vancouver (1997) and onwards; of the International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry from the meeting in Bangalore (2012) and onwardsChair of the 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23-28 August 2015, Como, Italy)Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4-8 September 2016, Venice, Italy); member of the International Scientific Committee of the 2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, 14–17 May 2017, Berlin, Germany; member of the Committee of the Faraday Discussion "Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry", 10–12 July 2017, Ottawa, CanadaCoordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network “GREENOMIcS - Green Chemistry Excellence from the Baltic See to the Mediterranean See and Beyond” (2017 onwards)Advisor of District 2050 Governor for starting Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia (2012), Club charter member (2013) and president (2015–16)Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (SMOCSG) (9 March 2016).Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (17 June 2017).