CONTACT

Professor Paolo Melchiorre, FRSC
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ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8722-4602     

Latest News

In 2026 our group continues to grow ✨. We  are pleased to welcome Magdalena, Nicholas, Aleksa, Nunzio, and Antonio, who joined the team over the past year. 
Our 5-year ERC Advanced Grant project, PHOTOZYME, kicked off on November 1st, 2024
We welcome Jonathan, Garrett, Jacopo, and Enrico to the team as we combine light, organocatalysis, and enzymes for groundbreaking radical catalysis and asymmetric chemistry. Let’s get started! 💡
Check out our newest paper: Light-Driven Organocatalytic Birch Reduction for Late-Stage Drug Modification and sp³-Rich Spirocycle Synthesis, now published in JACS. ​Read it free of charge here: DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c17373 ✨
​Check out our first paper entirely from UNIBO! 
​Radical pathways for 2,4-chromandione synthesis via photoexcitation of 4-hydroxycoumarins
Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 124-129
Read it for free here:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/sc/d4sc07495e