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FEDERICO RASTRELLI

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Position

Professore Associato

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 1 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275279

Federico Rastrelli received a PhD in Chemistry (2005) from the University of Padova, where he currently holds an associate professor position. In the group of prof. Alessandro Bagno he has been working on experimental NMR and quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters in small diamagnetic and paramagnetic molecules. In the same period he also became interested in applications of NMR spectroscopy in food chemistry.

His present research interests include the design of NMR methods for the investigation of nanosystems, NMR chemosensing techniques and the study of transport phenomena in complex matrices.

Notices

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 14:30 to 16:00
    at Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Via Marzolo 1
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Publications

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2369-2228

Schievano, E., Tonoli, M., Rastrelli, F.
NMR Quantification of Carbohydrates in Complex Mixtures. A Challenge on Honey
(2017) Analytical Chemistry, 89 (24), pp. 13405-13414.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03656

Riccardi, L., Gabrielli, L., Sun, X., De Biasi, F., Rastrelli, F., Mancin, F., De Vivo, M.
Nanoparticle-Based Receptors Mimic Protein-Ligand Recognition
(2017) Chem, 3 (1), pp. 92-109.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.05.016

Casella, G., Causin, V., Rastrelli, F., Saielli, G.
Ionic liquid crystals based on viologen dimers: tuning the mesomorphism by varying the conformational freedom of the ionic layer
(2016) Liquid Crystals, 43 (9), pp. 1161-1173.
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1161852

González-García, T., Margola, T., Silvagni, A., Mancin, F., Rastrelli, F.
Chromatographic NMR Spectroscopy with Hollow Silica Spheres
(2016) Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 55 (8), pp. 2733-2737.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510203

Rastrelli, F., Bagno, A., Appendino, G., Minassi, A.
Bioactive Phloroglucinyl Heterodimers: The Tautomeric and Rotameric Equilibria of Arzanol
(2016) European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016 (28), pp. 4810-4816.
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201600597

Diez-Castellnou, M., Salvia, M.-V., Springhetti, S., Rastrelli, F., Mancin, F.
Nanoparticle-Assisted Affinity NMR Spectroscopy: High Sensitivity Detection and Identification of Organic Molecules
(2016) Chemistry - A European Journal, 22 (47), pp. 16957-16963.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201603578

Salvia, M.-V., Salassa, G., Rastrelli, F., Mancin, F.
Turning Supramolecular Receptors into Chemosensors by Nanoparticle-Assisted "nMR Chemosensing"
(2015) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137 (35), pp. 11399-11406.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06300

Borgogno, A., Rastrelli, F., Bagno, A.
Characterization of Paramagnetic Reactive Intermediates: Predicting the NMR Spectra of Iron(IV)-Oxo Complexes by DFT
(2015) Chemistry - A European Journal, 21 (37), pp. 12960-12970.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500864

Piserchia, A., Zerbetto, M., Salvia, M.-V., Salassa, G., Gabrielli, L., Mancin, F., Rastrelli, F., Frezzato, D.
Conformational Mobility in Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles: From Torsional Free Energy Profiles to NMR Relaxation
(2015) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119 (34), pp. 20100-20110.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04884

Prodi, L., Rampazzo, E., Rastrelli, F., Speghini, A., Zaccheroni, N.
Imaging agents based on lanthanide doped nanoparticles
(2015) Chemical Society Reviews, 44 (14), pp. 4922-4952.
DOI: 10.1039/c4cs00394b

Salvia, M.-V., Ramadori, F., Springhetti, S., Diez-Castellnou, M., Perrone, B., Rastrelli, F., Mancin, F.
Nanoparticle-assisted NMR detection of organic anions: From chemosensing to chromatography
(2015) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137 (2), pp. 886-892.
DOI: 10.1021/ja511205e

Masseroni, D., Rampazzo, E., Rastrelli, F., Orsi, D., Ricci, L., Ruggeri, G., Dalcanale, E.
pH-responsive host-guest polymerization and blending
(2015) RSC Advances, 5 (15), pp. 11334-11342.

Research Area

NMR methodologies in Organic Chemistry
Matrix-assisted NMR
NMR of nanosystems
Solid-state NMR

Food Chemistry: NMR characterization of oxidation products in vegetable oils. NMR of honey.

Thesis proposals

NMR analysis of complex mixtures

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a powerful tool for the detection and the analysis of organic compounds in solution. The main advantage of this technique lies in its capability to provide information useful for the structure determination of unknown compounds. Despite this appealing characteristic, the following drawbacks are often encountered in NMR:

• (very) low sensitivity compared to other spectroscopic techniques
• long acquisition times
• high complexity of the spectrum

While the long acquisition times and the sensitivity issues can be quite improved with proper modifications in the pulse sequences, the complexity of the NMR signal is an intrinsic feature of the technique. As such, especially in 1H NMR, it is very common to find overlapped signals in a sample containing two or more analytes, compromising the correct identification of the species.

Further information

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