Professor Franco De Angelis was nominated by the General Assembly of Members as an Honorary Member of the Società Chimica Italiana (Italian Chemical Society, SCI). The SCI General Assembly, attended by more than 1,000 SCI members, took place on August 27, 2024, on the second day of the XXVIII National Congress of the SCI in Milan, Italy. The picture shows Francesco De Angelis (right) with Gianluca Farinola, President of SCI.
Honorary Membership is the highest honor given by the SCI, recognizing selected members for their outstanding support and commitment to the society. It has only been awarded eight times before. Other honorary memberships are Professor Richard M. Caprioli, Professor Branko Stanovnik, Professor Nina Berova, Professor Luigi Marzilli, Professor Charles J. M. Stirling, Professor Stephen J. Lippard, Professor Harry B. Gray, and Professor Pavel Jiru.
Francesco De Angelis received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1974 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, under the supervision of Rosario Nicoletti. He became Assistant Professor there in 1981 and joined the University of L’Aquila, Italy, as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1987. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2001.
His research interests focused on organic synthesis, natural organic compounds, and mass spectrometry.
Francesco De Angelis was President of SCI from 2005 to 2007, a member of the Executive Board of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) from 2005 to 2018, and treasurer from 2010 to 2017. He was President of the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) from 2013 to 2015. He has served for a long time as Representative of SCI in Chemistry Europe.
Among other honors, he received the “Domenico Marotta” gold medal from the SCI in 2011 and the EuChemS Service Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and an Honorary Fellow of Chemistry Europe.
Also of Interest
F. De Angelis, Italy, on EuCheMS, ChemPubSoc Europe, the Italian Chemical Society, and his motivation for society work (Chemistry Europe was called ChemubSoc Europe till 2020)
Selected Publications
- An Unprecedented Retro-Mumm Rearrangement Revealed by ESI-MS/MS, IRMPD Spectroscopy, and DFT Calculations,
Claudio Iacobucci, Samantha Reale, Massimiliano Aschi, Jos Oomens, Giel Berden, Francesco De Angelis,
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 7026–7032.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201800347 - Elusive Reaction Intermediates in Solution Explored by ESI-MS: Reverse Periscope for Mechanistic Investigations,
Claudio Iacobucci, Samantha Reale, Francesco De Angelis,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 2980–2993.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201507088 - Universal mass spectrometric analysis of poly(ionic liquid)s,
Martina M. Cecchini, Jan Steinkoenig, Samantha Reale, Leonie Barner, Jiayin Yuan, Anja S. Goldmann, Francesco De Angelis, Christopher Barner-Kowollik,
Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 4912–4921.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c6sc01347c - Dinuclear Copper Intermediates in Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Directly Observed by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry,
Claudio Iacobucci, Samantha Reale, Jean-François Gal, Francesco De Angelis,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 3065–3068.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201410301 - Poly(ethylene glycol)-Based Ionic Liquids: Properties and Uses as Alternative Solvents in Organic Synthesis and Catalysis,
Martina Maya Cecchini, Clarence Charnay, Francesco De Angelis, Frédéric Lamaty, Jean Martinez, Evelina Colacino,
ChemSusChem 2014, 7, 45–65.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201300421 - Methyltrioxorhenium Catalysis in Nonconventional Solvents: A Great Catalyst in a Safe Reaction Medium,
Marcello Crucianelli, Raffaele Saladino, Francesco De Angelis,
ChemSusChem 2010, 3, 524–540.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201000022
