Elisabetta Alberico

Elisabetta Alberico obtained her Master of Science – Chemistry (with honours) at the University of Sassari, Italy and her Ph. D. (Summa cum Laude) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany. She has been research associate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in the group of Prof. Howard Alpern, working at the regio- and stereoselective synthesis of key 1-methyl carbapenem intermediates via hydroformylation using a zwitterionic rhodium catalyst. Since 2001 she is researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry ICB-CNR in Sassari, Italy and, since 2011, she is associate researcher in the group of Prof. Matthias Beller at the Leibniz Institut für Catalyse, Rostock, Germany. She is co-author of 48 publications on international peer-reviewed journals (Web of Science, September 2021) and 5 book chapters. She has been reviewer for ACS Catalysis, Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Science, ChemCatChem, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Select, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Her research interests are devoted to the design and synthesis of novel homogeneous catalysts based on noble and non-noble transition metals, for hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions; to the development of homogeneous catalytic processes for the reduction of multiple bonds as key steps in the synthesis of molecules of industrial relevance; to the homogeneously catalyzed hydrogen generation from renewables (methanol, formic acid) under mild conditions; to the investigation into the mechanism of the reactions catalyzed by the developed catalysts.

1. Alberico E.,* Leischner T., Junge H.,* Kammer A., Sang R., Seifert J., Baumann W., Spannenberg A., Junge K., Beller M.* HCOOH disproportionation to MeOH promoted by molybdenum PNP complexes, Chem. Sci. 2021 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc04181a

2. Papa V., Cabrero-Antonino J. R., Alberico E., Spannenberg A., Junge K., Junge H. Beller M.* Efficient and selective hydrogenation of amides to alcohols and amines using a well-defined manganese–PNN pincer complex, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3576, DOI: 10.1039/c7sc00138j

3. Alberico E., Lennox A. J. J., Vogt L. K., Jiao H., Baumann W., Drexler H.-J., Nielsen N., Spannenberg A., Marek P. Checinski M. P., Junge H., Beller M.* Unravelling the Mechanism of Basic Aqueous Methanol Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Ru−PNP Pincer Complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14890−14904, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b05692

4. Nielsen M., Alberico E., Baumann W., Drexler H.-J., Junge H., Gladiali S., Beller M.* Low-temperature aqueous-phase methanol dehydrogenation to hydrogen and carbon dioxide, Nature, 2013, 495, 85-89, DOI:10.1038/nature11891

5. Alberico E., Sponholz P., Cordes C., Nielsen M., Drexler H.-J., Baumann W., Junge H., Beller M.* Selective Hydrogen Production from Methanol with a Defined Iron Pincer Catalyst under Mild Conditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14162 –14166, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307224