
Sonia Pedotti
Experience & Activities
After the degree, she experienced working at the University of Catania chemistry’s department for one year as the winner of the fellowship: her work was focused on synthesis and characterization of modified cyclodextrins.
On the year 1997 she started working on the research project “Use of Cyclodestrins as carriers to prodrugs’ synthesis” and on the year 2001 she obtained the PhD at the University of Catania.
She was involved in the research activity concerning the synthesis of chiral molecules through biocatalytic process from June 2001 till September 2001.
Since the 28th of December 2001, she is working as a permanent researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (CNR) of Catania in the area of sustainable chemistry and optimization of novel ferrocenyl ligand for asymmetric catalysis. Synthesis, design and characterization of cyclodextrin conjugated to biomolecules developed from original structural units for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
Asymmetric Catalysis
Green Chemistry
Sustainable Processes
Cyclodextrin
Biocatalysis
Ferrocenes
Ferrocenes with simple chiral substituents: An in-depth theoretical and experimental VCD and ECD study. Patti A.; Pedotti S.; Mazzeo G.; Longhi G.; Abbate S.; Paoloni L.; Bloino J.; Rampino S.; and Barone V.; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2019, 21(18), pp. 9419–9432. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00437H
Synthesis of the ferrocenyl analogue of clotrimazole drug. Patti A.; Pedotti S.; Ussia M.; Barresi V.; Condorelli D.F.; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2017, 830, 56-61. DOI:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.12.009
Synthesis and physico-chemical characterization of a β-cyclodextrin conjugate for sustained release of Acyclovir. Pedotti S.; Pistarà V.; Cannavà C.; Puglisi G.; Ventura C.A.; Carbohydrate Polymers 2015, 131, 159-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.05.071
- Synthesis of hybrid ferrocene-proline amides as active catalysts for asymmetric aldol reactions in water. Angela Patti, Sonia Pedotti, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014, 3, 624-630. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201301346
D’Antona N.; Morrone R.; Gambera G.; Pedotti S.; Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2016, 19, 4393-4399. Enantiorecognition of planar “metallocenic” chirality by a nitrile hydratase/amidase bienzymatic system. DOI: 10.1039/C6OB00689B



Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-244X
Scopus Author ID: 6603661092