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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Trends in Green chem
ISSN: 2471-9889
Environmental & Green Chemistry 2017
July 24-26, 2017
Page 30
5
th
International Conference on
6
th
International Conference on
July 24-26, 2017 Rome, Italy
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Green Chemistry and Technology
&
Nanostructured materials for green catalysis
Angelo Nacci
University of Bari, Italy
T
ransition-metal Nanoparticles (NPs) are attracting a great deal of attention in almost any scientific and technological field,
including catalysis, where nanoscalematerials are becomingmore prevalent in a wide range of applications such as fuel conversion,
pollution abatement and fine chemical production. Nowadays, many researchers are exploiting the high activity and selectivity of
nanocatalysts to develop greener and waste-minimized processes. During the last decade, we exploited nanostructured catalysts
based on several metals like Pd, Cu, Au, Zn and Ti to perform a wide range of organometallic reactions (Heck, Suzuki, Ullmann,
Stille, carbonylations, cyclopropanations, C-H activations, hydrodehalogenations and CO
2
photoreduction) under environmentally
friendly conditions given by the absence of phosphane ligands and using neoteric solvents (ionic liquids, water, emulsion mixtures
and so on) as green reaction media. This lecture deals with our recent advances in controlling the catalyst performances by choosing
properly the nature of both the ionic liquid and the nanocatalyst.
Biography
Angelo Nacci completed his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1994 at Bari University (Italy). He was a Researcher in Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department
of Bari University. In 2001, he was a Visiting Researcher at TUM University of Munich (Germany) and in 2005 he became an Associate Professor of Organic
Chemistry. He is currently the President of Chemistry Courses Degree at Bari University. His research interests are focused on: organometallic chemistry in ionic
liquids; green nanocatalysis; CO
2
capture and valorization and synthesis and recycling of bioplastics. He is the co-author of almost 70 publications in major journals
and has one patent.
angelo.nacci@uniba.itAngelo Nacci, Trends in Green chem, 3:2
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C1-002