Alessandro Mordini
Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici (ICCOM) – CNR, Firenze
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Alessandro Mordini received his degree in Chemistry (with honors) in 1983 from the University of
Firenze(Italy), where he also completed his PhD in 1987. The same year he became CNR researcher at the
CNR Center on Heterocyclic Chemistry – University of Firenze joining the group of Prof. Alfredo Ricci where
he was involved in the chemistry of Silicon and Tin organometallic derivatives.
He spent three research periods in the group of Prof. Manfred Schlosser at the University of Lausanne in
1984-1985 (during the PhD course), in 1988-1989 as post doctor and in 1992 as instructor. In Lausanne he
worked on the synthesis and reactivity of polar organometallic compounds and, in particular, on superbasic
reagents.
In 1999 he was appointed CNR Senior Researcher at the same CNR research Center in Florence which later,
in 2001, became Institut on the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM). In 2001 he spent three
months as invited professor at the University of Kyoto.
Dr. Mordini has been the Director of the NATO – ASI School “New Methodologies and Techniques in
Organic Chemistry” (Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 2005); the chairman of the “IX International Symposium
on Carbanion Chemistry” (Firenze, 2010) and of the “IX Congress of the Interdivisional group of
Organometallic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society” (Firenze, 2010). He will be the chairman of the
next “Spanish-Italian Symposium on Organic Chemistry” (Firenze, 2014) and of the “XXVII International
Conference on Organometallic Chemistry” (Firenze, 2018).
He is Member of the Executive Board of the Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry of the Italian
Chemical Society; of the Executive Board of the Tuscan Section of the Italian Chemical Society and of the
Technical and Scientific Board of Polo delle Energie Rinnovabili della Regione Toscana.
He is reviewer for several journal in the field of organic and organometallic chemistry and referee for some
European Research Agencies. He has been the responsible of bilateral international projects and COST
networks as well as responsible of research contracts with several Italian companies.
He is the author of about 10 monographies and book chapter’s, 90 articles in peer-reviewed international
journals mainly dealing with the synthesis and application of organometallic reagents, synthesis of new
heterocyclic scaffolds, and, more recently, design and synthesis of new materials for energy.