Photochemistry

Stefano Protti obtained the Master’s degree in 2003 (110/110 cum laude). In 2007, he completed his PhD in Pavia focusing on photochemical arylations via phenyl cations. Later he moved to LASIR Laboratory (Lille, France), where he investigated the photoreactivity and the photophysics of flavonoids. He came back to Pavia and started working in the field of (photo)green synthetic chemistry. After a postdoctoral stay at the iBitTec-S laboratory (CEA Saclay, France) carrying out studies on photocatalyzed oxidation reactions for energy storage, he moved again to Pavia. Since 2018 is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is currently editor of the Specialist Periodical Reports in Photochemistry of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member of the Early Career Board of the ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering and of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. The research activity of Stefano Protti has been mainly focused on the development of new synthetic methods for the light driven formation of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds under metal free conditions.

Introduction of the year 2021;The photochemical unit, University of Western Ontario;Quantum chemistry of the excited state: Advances in 2020–2021;Organic aspects: Photochemistry of alkenes, dienes, polyenes (2020–2021);Photochemistry of aromatic compounds (2019–2020);Oxygen-containing chromophores;Organic aspects: functions containing a heteroatom different from oxygen (2020–2021);Recent advances in palladium photocatalyzed transformations (2017–2021);Recent approaches in asymmetric non-covalent organo-photocatalysis;Recent advances of visible-light-induced carbon–sulfur bond formation;Photochemistry electrified: Pushing the boundaries of radical-based organic synthesis;Supramolecular control in hybrid perovskite photovoltaics;

Photocatalytic modifications of benzamides;Polarizable multiscale dynamics for probing solvent and complex environments;Understanding solar fuel photocatalysis using covalent organic frameworks;Transient absorption spectroscopy in visible-light photocatalysis;Mechanoresponsive luminescence in polymeric materials: Strategies and methods;Investigating light-driven rotary molecular motors