Barbara Sechi

The year following her hight school graduation  she won a scholarship to the National Research Council in the field of  ‘Synthesis, instrumental analysis and spectroscopy of organic compounds’. Since 1994 she has been an employee of the National Research Council at the Institute for the Applications of Advanced Chemical Techniques to Agrobiological Problems, current ICB_SS, as a technical collaborator.

In the first 24 years of activity she has dealt with Organic Synthesis in particular  oxo-synthesis accompanied by the analysis of products obtained, using techniques such as NMR; GC_GC / MS.

As head of the mass-interfaced gas chromatography department, she was responsible for the phytochemical characterization of Sardinian endemic plants.

Notable and never secondary didactic activity for the students of the high schools of the Province (SS) and Macomer (NU) who followed one another in the institute, interested in the good practices of an Organic Chemistry laboratory.

From September 2018 to September 2019 she carried out his activity at the Institute of Molecular Recognition _CNR Milan, included in the Biocatalysis and Biorefineries project dealing with enzymatic catalysis with reactions promoted by aminotransferases and deconstruction of biomass with Organosolv reaction, in order to produce lignin and sugars with subsequent HPLC analysis using UV / VIS and fluorescence detectors.

 Since January 2020 she is a member of the research group of Chiral Chromatography and Recognition molecular structure of the ICB_SS ,her activity takes place  in the field of liquid chromatography, in particular in enantiomeric separation using chiral stationary phases based on polysaccharide.

1. Enantioseparation of 5,5′-Dibromo-2,2′-Dichloro-3-Selanyl-4,4′-Bipyridines on Polysaccharide-Based Chiral Stationary Phases: Exploring Chalcogen Bonds in Liquid-Phase Chromatography– Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021, 26(1) Autori: Peluso, P., Dessì, A., Dallocchio, R., …Aubert, E., Cossu, S.

2. Discovery and Characterization of a Novel Thermostable β-Amino Acid Transaminase from a Meiothermus Strain Isolated in an Icelandic Hot Spring-, Biotechnology Journal, 2020, 15(11), 2000125, Autori: Ferrandi, E.E., Bassanini, I., Sechi, B., …Peng, X., Monti, D.

3. Osmium complexes in catalysis of olefin hydrogenation and isomerization–Cuihua Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2016, 37(11), pp. 1824–1836. Autori: Chelucci, G., Pinna, G.A., Pinna, G., Solinas, M., Sechi, B.

4. Rosmarinus officinalis L.: Chemical Modifications of the Essential oil and Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity” Natural Product Communications 4 (2009) 1685-1690 Autori: Giorgio Pintore, Mauro Marchetti, Mario Chessa, Barbara Sechi, Nadia Scanu, Giuseppe Mangano, Bruno Tirillini

5. Enantioselective hydroformylation of vinyl-aromatics using a rhodium complex with the (1 R,2 R,4R) -2-(2-diphenylphosphinyl-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-y1) pyridine. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 1997, 122(2-3), pp. 111–114 Autori: Chelucci, G., Marchetti, M., Sechi, B.