Ottorino DE LUCCHI

Married, two children.

Office: Dipartimento di Chimica, Dorsoduro 2137, I-30123 Venezia, Italy.

• Education

• Professional experience

• Professional activity

• Professional societies

• Scientific activity

• Honors

• Recent lectures

Education :

• Lyceum: Maturità scientifica, 1970, Liceo Scientifico E. Fermi, Padova.

• Doctor in Chemistry: October 1975, Università di Padova.Thesis:"Thiirenium Ions: Identification and Reactivity". Advisor: Prof. G. Modena. Institute of Organic Chemistry.

• Doctor in Pharmacy: November 1977, Università di Padova.Thesis:"Alkylthiosulfonium Salts: Importance in Organic Synthesis and Model for Oxidative Phosphorilation". Advisor: Prof. G. Rodighiero. Institute of Pharmacy and Tossicology.

Professional experience:

• Research Fellow, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Università di Padova, October 1975 - April 1976.

• Military Service, April 1976 - April 1977.

• Research Fellow, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Università di Padova, Italy.

• Fellowship from SORIN Biomedica. January 1978 - October 1978.Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, USA. Research activities with Prof. W. Adam. November 1978 - December 1979.

• Collaboration with Dr. E. Klein, Gulf South Research Institute, New Orleans, USA. December 1979 - January 1980.

• Research Associate, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, BRD.

• Research activity with Prof. W. Adam. January 1980 - November 1981.

• Ricercatore, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università di Padova, Italy. November 1981 - March 1986.

• Professore Straordinario e Ordinario, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Sassari, Italy. March 1986 - October 1990.

• Professore Ordinario, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy. From November 1990

Professional activity:

• Director: Centro di Spettroscopia, Università di Sassari, November 1988 - October 1990.

• Director: Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Sassari, November 1989 - October 1990.

• Member: Consiglio di Amministrazione, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, 1992 - 1995.

• "Pro-rettore delegato alla firma", Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, since 1995.

• President: Centro Interdipartimentale Servizi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, since 1996 - 1997.

• Member: Comitato Scientifico Istituto CNR ICoCEA, Bologna, since 1997.

• Member: Consiglio di Amministrazione ASPEG, since 1998.

• Member: Direttivo Divisione Chimica Organica SCI, since 1999.

• Member: "Nucleo di Valutazione", Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, since 1999.

• Consultant: CIBA Specialty Chemicals, FIS (Vi), VIS (Pd), Zambon (Mi-Vi).

Professional societies :

• Società Chimica Italiana, since 1976

• American Chemical Society, since 1979

• Royal Chemical Society since 1997

• European Photochemical Association, since 1980

• International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, since 1989

• International Council of Main Group Chemistry, since 1990.

Scientific activity:

• Chemistry of organosulfur compounds

• Biological implications of organosulfur compounds

• Asymmetric synthesis

• Cycloaddition reactions

• Organic synthesis with sulfones and sulfoxides

• Unusual molecules with unusual geometries and electronic distributions

• High-symmetry chiral molecules

• Synthetic chiral auxiliaries

• Cyclotrimerisation reactions

• Cup-shaped molecules.

Author of over 180 publications and of numerous communications to congresses and symposia.

Honors:

• Ciamician medal - Società Chimica Italiana (1984).

• Mangini lecture - Caen, France (1992).

• Premio Federchimica (1993).

• Zeneca lecture, Wilmington, USA (1997).

Recent lectures:

• "Synthesis of Organic Molecules with peculiar Geometries and Electronic Distributions", Zeneca Lecture 1997, Zeneca, Willminghton, U.S.A., 23 Maggio 1997.

• "Chiral Organic Molecules with Peculiar Geometries and Electronic Distributions", Pleanry Lecture, 2nd German-Italian Symposium, Goslar, Germania, 29 Maggio-1 Giugno 1997.

• "Man-made Chiral Auxiliaries: Strategies and Developments", Plenary Lecture, ESOC 10, Basel, Svizzera, 22-27 Giugno 1997.

• "Bis(phenylsulfonyl)alkenes: from Enantiopure Ketones to Fullerene Substructures", Plenary Lecture, ISOCS-18, 18th International Symposium on the Organic Chemistry of Sulfur, Firenze, 13-18 Luglio 1998.

• "From Symmetry to Symmetry via Asymmetry: Our Case", Invited Lecture, 1st French-Italian Symposium on Asymmetric Synthesis, Maratea (Cs), 14-15 Maggio 1999.

• "Ciclotrimerizzazione di Alcheni Policiclici Enantiopuri", Plenary Lecture, COFEM 99, Mattinata (Fo), 30 Maggio - 3 Giugno 1999.