RAGAINI FABIO ATTILIO CIRILLO

Fabio Ragaini is full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Milan University, were he did his complete career, except for a period as a visiting scientist at The Pennsylvania State University, with Prof. G. L. Geoffroy.
He currently teaches the courses of Homogeneous Catalysis and of General and Inorganic Chemistry for Chemistry students.
He was the Coordinator of the Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society and a chairmen of the “XI Congress of the Organometallic Group of the Italian Chemical Society (CoGICO2014)”, Milano 2014.
He is the author of 139 papers on scientific journals, a monograph entitled “Catalytic Reductive Carbonylation of Organic Nitro Compounds” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 3 book chapters, 185 communications to congresses, and 3 patents. His works have collected more than 5200 citations (not including those of the monograph, whose number is not available). h-index = 46. He is in the list of the 100.000 most impacting scientists in all disciplines (including only 203 Italian chemists, several of which already retired) according to a balanced study published on PLOS Biology (Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Baas, J.; Klavans, R.; Boyack, K. W. "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field" PLOS Biology 2019, 17, e3000384. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384).
His interests are mainly centered on organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, with a focus on reduction/carbonylation reactions of nitroarenes for the synthesis of both base (isocyanates, carbamates, ureas) and fine chemicals (nitrogen heterocycles) and on the synthesis and use of nitrogen ligands. Recently, he was also involved in the development of cobalt and iron N-enriched graphitic catalysts.