Aldo Vitagliano

Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry

Address:
    Prof. Aldo Vitagliano
    Dipartimento di Chimica
    Universita' di Napoli Federico II
    Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, via Cintia
    80126 Napoli, Italy

    phone: + 39 081674462
    fax: + 39 081674090
    e-mail: alvitagl@unina.it

Main interests:

Organometallic Chemistry of Late Transition Metals.
Chiral Recognition in Metal Complexes.

Additional interests & hobbies:

Astronomy (Celestial mechanics). The Solex program.
Mountain hiking (picture of the month).
 


Most relevant "old" papers:

B. Åkermark and A. Vitagliano
"Reactivity and syn-anti isomerization of (h-3-geranyl) and (h-3-neryl)palladium complexes. Evidence for electronic control of the regiochemistry of nucleophilic addition"
Organometallics 4 (1985), 1275-1283.

V. G. Albano, D. Braga, V. De Felice, A. Panunzi and A. Vitagliano
"Five-coordinate olefin complexes of platinum(II) containing s-bonded carbon ligands. Synthesis and characterization of [PtClMe(h²-C2H4)(N-N')] complexes. Molecular structure of an adduct with a chiral metal centre and of its parent four-coordinate complex"
Organometallics 6 (1987), 517-525.

B. Åkermark, B. Krakenberger, S. Hansson and A. Vitagliano
"Ligand effects and nucleophilic addition to (h3-allyl)palladium complexes. A carbon-13 NMR study"
Organometallics 6 (1987), 620-628.

M. E. Cucciolito, V. De Felice, A. Panunzi and A. Vitagliano:
"Five-coordinate olefin complexes of platinum(II) containing s-bonded carbon ligands. Coordination environment and stability"
Organometallics 8 (1989), 1180-1187.

V. G. Albano, C. Castellari, M. E. Cucciolito, A. Panunzi and A. Vitagliano
"Synthesis and characterization of five-coordinate olefin complexes of palladium(II). Molecular structure of (2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)- (maleic anhydride)methyl- chloropalladium, acetone solvate"
Organometallics 9 (1990), 1269-1276.

B. Åkermark, S. Hansson and A. Vitagliano
"Selective stabilization of the anti isomer in h3-allylpalladium complexes: an attempt to control the E-Z stereochemistry in palladium-promoted allylic substitutions"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112 (1990), 4587-4588.

A. Vitagliano, B. Åkermark, S. Hansson
"Convenient synthesis of cationic h3-allylpalladium complexes. Preparative and stereochemical aspects"
Organometallics 10 (1991), 2592-2599.

M. P. T. Sjögren, S. Hansson, P. O. Norrby, B. Åkermark, M. E. Cucciolito, and A. Vitagliano
"Selective stabilization of the anti-isomer of h3-allyl palladium and platinum complexes"
Organometallics 11 (1992), 3954-3964.

S. Hansson, P. O. Norrby, M. P. T. Sjögren, B. Åkermark, M. E. Cucciolito, F. Giordano and A. Vitagliano
"The Effects of Phenanthroline Type Ligands on the Dynamic Processes of (h3- Allyl)palladium Complexes. Molecular Structure of (2,9-Dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)[(1,2,3- h)-3-methyl-2-butenyl] chloropalladium"
Organometallics 12 (1993), 4940-4948.

M. E. Cucciolito, F. Ruffo, A. Vitagliano and M. Funicello
"Resolution of Allylic Alcohols via Copper(I) Complexes with a Chiral Diamine"
Tetrahedron Lett. 35 (1994), 169-170.

M. E. Cucciolito, M. A. Jama, F. Giordano, A. Vitagliano, V. De Felice
"Chiral Recognition in Platinum Complexes of 1,2-Diphenyl- N,N'-bis- [(trimethylphenyl)methyl]-1,2-diaminoethane. Stereoselective Coordination of Olefins and Molecular Structure of a Trigonal Bipyramidal Adduct"
Organometallics 14 (1995), 1152-1160.

E. Peña-Cabrera, P.-O. Norrby, M. Sjögren, A. Vitagliano, V. De Felice, J. Oslob, S. Ishii, D. O' Neill, B. Åkermark, P. Helquist
"Molecular Mechanics Predictions and Experimental Testing of Asymmetric Palladium- Catalyzed Allylation Reactions Using New Chiral Phenanthroline Ligands"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 (1996), 4299-4313.

P. Ganis, I. Orabona, F. Ruffo, A. Vitagliano
“The first class of square-planar Pt(II) complexes containing electron-poor alkenes. Rare insertion of an alkene into a Pt-alkyl bond"
 Organometallics  17 (1998) 2646-2650.

Most relevant recent papers:

L. Cavallo, M. E. Cucciolito, A. De Martino, F. Giordano, I. Orabona, A. Vitagliano
 “Stereoselectivity and chiral recognition in copper(I) olefin complexes with a chiral diamine”
Chem. Eur. J.  6 (2000), 1127-1139.

C. Hahn, P. Morvillo, A. Vitagliano
"Olefins coordinated at a highly electrophilic site. Dicationic palladium(II) complexes and their equilibrium reactions with nucleophiles"
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2001, 419-429.

C. Hahn, P. Morvillo, E. Herdtweck, A. Vitagliano
"Coordination of alkenes at a highly electrophilic site. New dicationic platinum(II) complexes: synthesis, structure and reactions with nucleophiles"
Organometallics 21 (2002), 1807-1818.  Abstract

C. Hahn, M. E. Cucciolito, A. Vitagliano
"Coordinated olefins as incipient carbocations: Catalytic codimerization of ethylene and internal olefins by a dicationic Pt(II) - ethylene complex"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (2002), 9038-9039. Abstract

M. E. Cucciolito, G. Flores, A. Vitagliano
"Chiral Recognition in Silver(I) Olefin Complexes with Chiral Diamines. Resolution of Racemic Alkenes and NMR Discrimination of Enantiomers"
Organometallics. 22 (2004),  15-17.  Abstract

M. E. Cucciolito,  A. D'Amora,  A. Vitagliano
"Catalytic coupling of ethylene and internal olefins by dicationic palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes: Switching from hydrovinylation to cyclopropane ring formation"
Organometallics 24 (2005), 3359-3361.  Abstract

M. E. Cucciolito,  A. D'Amora, A. Tuzi,  A. Vitagliano
"Catalytic hydroarylation of olefins promoted by dicationic platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes. The interplay of C-C bond formation and M-C bond cleavage"
Organometallics 26 (2007), 5216-5223.  Abstract

M. E. Cucciolito,   A. Vitagliano
"Intermolecular cross-coupling between η2-olefin and η1-allyl ligands in cationic platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes"
Organometallics 27 (2008), 6360-6363.  Abstract

M. E. Cucciolito,  A. D'Amora, A. Vitagliano
"Catalytic Hydroalkylation of Olefins by Stabilized Carbon Nucleophiles Promoted by Dicationic Platinum(II) and Palladium(II) Complexes"
Organometallics 29 (2010),  5878–5884.  Abstract

Astronomical papers:

A. Vitagliano
"Numerical integration for the real time production of fundamental ephemerides over a wide time span"

Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron. 66 (1997), 293-308.

J. Meeus, A. Vitagliano
"Simultaneous transits"
J. Br. Astron. Assoc. 114 (2004), 132-135.

A. Vitagliano, R. M. Stoss
"New mass determination of (15) Eunomia based on a very close encounter with (50278) 2000CZ12"
Astron. & Astrophys. 455 (2006), L29-L31.