Francesco Paolucci

Francesco Paolucci is an Associate Professor of electrochemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bologna, Italy, since 2001. He studied electrochemistry in Bologna under the supervision of Professor Sergio Roffia, working on the electrochemical characterization of cobalt complexes and moved in 1987 to Padua, Italy, where he took a Research Scientist position at the National Research Council. There he worked on themes of materials electrochemistry, principally on the electrosynthesis of III-V semiconductors. In 1991, on a Royal Society (Accademia dei Lincei) grant, he studied the photoelectrochemistry of silicon with Professor Laurie Peter in Southampton, UK, and in 1992 he became Lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Bologna. In 1995, he worked with Professor Christian Amatore at ENS, Paris, on a NATO-funded project involving the use of ultramicroelectrodes in supramolecular electrochemical studies. Since 1992, he has worked on themes of molecular and supramolecular electrochemistry and materials chemistry, focussing on the mechanism of electrochemically induced reactions involving metal complexes, mechanically interlocked systems, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, biosensors, and biologically active systems. He is author of over 110 peer-reviewed papers and chapters and 3 patents.

Biography Updated on 24 April 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of polypyridine ligands: A theoretical approach
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 360, no. 3, pp. 1154–1162, 2007
  2. Improvements in the Characterization of the Crystalline Structure of Acid-Terminated Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)
    Langmuir, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 582–588, 2007
  3. Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 22, pp. 5173–5176, 2006
  4. Voltammetric characterization of C60(PhX)2 (X = H, Br) and digital simulation of their electrochemically-induced reactivity
    Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, vol. 5, no. 12, p. 1132, 2006
  5. Rhenium(i) and ruthenium(ii) complexes with a crown-linked methanofullerene ligand: synthesis, electrochemistry and photophysical characterization
    Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, vol. 5, no. 12, p. 1154, 2006
  6. Photophysical and electrochemical properties of a fullerene-stoppered rotaxane
    Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, vol. 5, no. 12, p. 1173, 2006
  7. Efficiency enhancement of the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2: fac-[Re(v-bpy)(CO)3Cl] electropolymerized onto mesoporous TiO2 electrodes
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 359, no. 12, pp. 3871–3874, 2006
  8. Versatile Coordination Chemistry towards Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Nanohybrids
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 2152–2161, 2006
  9. Supramolecular Hybrids of [60]Fullerene and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 15, pp. 3975–3983, 2006
  10. Synthesis of 2-picolyl functionalized ?5-cyclopentadienyl derivatives of rhodium(I) and iridium(I) and preliminary study of their reaction with ruthenium(II) for assembling hetero-bimetallic complexes
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 691, no. 7, pp. 1425–1434, 2006
  11. Electronic properties of new homobimetallic anthracene-bridged ?5-cyclopentadienyl derivatives of iridium(I) and of the corresponding cation radicals [L2Ir{C5H4CH2(9,10-anthrylene)CH2C5H4}IrL2]+
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 691, no. 13, pp. 2987–3002, 2006
  12. Electrochemical and electrochromic investigation of poly-bithiophene films on a mesoporous TiO2 surface
    Synthetic Metals, vol. 156, no. 1, pp. 27–31, 2006
  13. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 695–709, 2006
  14. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 34, pp. 11222–11231, 2006
  15. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 5, pp. 2241–2248, 2006
  16. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 45, pp. 22551–22556, 2006
  17. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 39, pp. 18427–18432, 2005
  18. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 9723–9730, 2005
  19. Bio-characterisation of tosylate-doped polypyrrole films for biomedical applications
    Materials Science and Engineering: C, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 43–49, 2005
  20. Macromolecules, vol. 38, no. 19, pp. 7915–7925, 2005
  21. Organometallics, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1198–1203, 2005
  22. Design and synthesis of multi-component 18? annulenic fluorofullerene ensembles suitable for donor?acceptor applications
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 3, p. 319, 2004
  23. Liquid-crystalline fullerene?ferrocene dyads
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 8, p. 1266, 2004
  24. Functionalised single wall carbon nanotubes/polypyrrole composites for the preparation of amperometric glucose biosensorsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/jm/b3/b316806a/
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 807, 2004
  25. Donor?acceptor nanoensembles of soluble carbon nanotubesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b4/b406933a/
    Chemical Communications, no. 18, p. 2034, 2004
  26. An ESR and electrochemical approach to the unusual reactivity of ferrocenoylsilanes with organometallic compounds
    Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1084–1090, 2004
  27. Electrochemistry of perfluorinated fullerenes: the case of three isomers of CF
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 400, no. 4-6, pp. 389–393, 2004
  28. Homobimetallic anthracene-bridged ?-cyclopentadienyl derivatives of rhodium(I) and iridium(I): large molecules or supramolecular species?
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 357, no. 10, pp. 2915–2932, 2004
  29. Calculated electron affinities and redox E0 values of polypyridinic derivatives
    Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 564, pp. 231–237, 2004
  30. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 39, pp. 15192–15199, 2004
  31. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 23, pp. 7139–7144, 2003
  32. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 28, pp. 8644–8654, 2003
  33. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 51, pp. 15738–15739, 2003
  34. Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube–Ferrocene Nanohybrids: Observing Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Functionalized SWNTs
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 42, no. 35, pp. 4206–4209, 2003
  35. Methanofullerenes from Macrocyclic Malonates
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 2, pp. 374–384, 2003
  36. Biochemistry, vol. 42, no. 41, pp. 11924–11931, 2003
  37. Synthesis of 18? annulenic fluorofullerenes from tertiary carbanions: size matters!
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 1, no. 11, p. 2015, 2003
  38. Anion recognition by functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes
    Chemical Communications, no. 20, p. 2576, 2003
  39. Photosensitization of Nanocrystalline SnO2 Films with a tris(2,2'-Bipyridine) Ruthenium(II)-Fullerene Dyad
    Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 121–133, 2003
  40. Self-Assembly of Monolayer-Coated Silver Nanoparticles on Gold Electrodes. An Electrochemical Investigation
    Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 1395–1406, 2003
  41. Organometallics, vol. 21, no. 25, pp. 5583–5593, 2002
  42. A light-harvesting fluorinated fullerene donor-acceptor ensemble; long-lived charge separationElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: fluorescence spectra of 1 and 6 and UV-vis absorption spectra of 1, 2 and 6. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b209724a/
    Chemical Communications, no. 1, pp. 148–149, 2002
  43. Electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of ruthenium(II)-bipyridine building blocks. Different behaviour of the 2,3- and 2,5-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine bridging ligands
    Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 532, no. 1-2, pp. 99–112, 2002
  44. Computational electrochemistry. Ab initio calculation of solvent effect in the multiple electroreduction of polypyridinic compounds
    Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 612, no. 2-3, pp. 277–286, 2002
  45. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 15, pp. 3926–3932, 2002
  46. Organometallics, vol. 20, no. 16, pp. 3478–3490, 2001
  47. Identification and Characterization of Redox Sites in Supramolecular Systems and Their Relevance for the Design of Photoactive Devices. Ru(II)/C60-Based Donor-Acceptor Dyads
    Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 276–290, 2001
  48. Novel fulleropyrrolidinium-based materials
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 269–273, 2000
  49. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 156–163, 2000
  50. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 17, pp. 4209–4212, 2000
  51. Synthesis, electrochemistry, Langmuir–Blodgett deposition and photophysics of metal-coordinated fullerene–porphyrin dyads
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 599, no. 1, pp. 62–68, 2000
  52. Synthesis and electrochemical properties of ionic fullerene derivatives
    Carbon, vol. 38, no. 11-12, pp. 1557–1563, 2000
  53. Electrochemical properties of soluble fullerene derivatives
    Electrochimica Acta, vol. 46, no. 2-3, pp. 265–269, 2000
  54. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 43, pp. 10081–10091, 1999
  55. Synthesis and photoelectrochemical properties of a fullerene–azothiophene dyad
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2743–2750, 1999
  56. Electrochemical Detection of C[sub 60] in Solution: Is Tetrahydrofuran a Suitable Solvent for Fullerene Studies?
    Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 146, no. 9, p. 3357, 1999
  57. Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1297–1304, 1998
  58. Photoredox pathways for the polymerization of a pyrrole-substituted ruthenium tris(bipyridyl) complex
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 33–37, 1998
  59. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 102, no. 24, pp. 4759–4769, 1998
  60. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2829–2832, 1998
  61. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 22, pp. 5480–5487, 1998
  62. In-vitro studies of two 5-nitroimidazole derivatives
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 19–25, 1997
  63. Switchable photoreduction pathways of antimony(V) tetraphenylporphyrin. A potential multielectron transfer photosensitizer
    Chemical Communications, no. 14, p. 1643, 1996
  64. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 24, pp. 6572–6580, 1995
  65. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 14, pp. 3003–3009, 1993