Giovanni Bottari received his B.S. degree from the University of Messina (Italy) and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK). He has been a Marie Curie Intra-European and a “Ramón y Cajal” Fellow at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Currently, he is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at UAM, and Associate Scientist both at “IMDEA Nanoscience” and at the “Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem)”. His current research interests include, among others, the synthesis and study of covalent and supramolecular porphyrinoid-based systems and their self-organization both in solution and on solid surfaces.
About his group
The “Nanoscience and Molecular Materials” group at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has been working in synthetic organic chemistry in areas ranging from pharmaceutical chemistry to the development of new organic materials and the study of their optical properties for applications in optoelectronics and organic solar cells, and more recently he has focused on areas of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Recent publications
- “Bottom-up fabrication and atomic-scale characterization of triply-linked, laterally π-extended porphyrin nanotapes”, Sun, L. M. Mateo, R. Robles, N. Lorente,* P. Ruffieux, G. Bottari,* T. Torres,* R. Fasel* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI : 10.1002/anie.202105350 (2021) [Very Important Paper]
- “Enabling racemization of axially chiral subphthalocyanine-tetracyanobutadiene-aniline enantiomers by triplet state photogeneration”, Lavarda, N. Bhattacharjee, G. Brancato,* T. Torres,* G. Bottari* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 21224-21229 (2020) [Hot paper]
- “Inducing open-shell character in porphyrins through surface-assisted phenalenyl π-extension”, Sun, L. M. Mateo, R. Robles, P. Ruffieux, N. Lorente,* G. Bottari,* T. Torres,* R. Fasel* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 18109-18117 (2020) [Front cover, vol. 142, issue 47]
- “Synthesis and optical features of axially- and peripherally-substituted subporphyrins. A paradigmatic example of charge transfer versus exciplex states”, K. A. Winterfeld, G. Lavarda, K. Yoshida, M. J. Bayerlein, K. Kise, T. Tanaka, A. Osuka,* D. M. Guldi,* T. Torres,* Bottari* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 7920-7929 (2020)
- “Quadrupolar cyclopenta[hi]aceanthrylene-based electron donor-acceptor-donor conjugates: Charge transfer versus charge separation”, Schierl, W. Alex, L. M. Mateo, B. Ballesteros, D. Shimizu, A. Osuka,* T. Torres,* D. M. Guldi,* G. Bottari* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 14644-14652 (2019) [Frontispiece]