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CChhiiaarraa PPaalluummbboo

Goal-oriented R&D chemist, with experience in the coil coatings field, in industrial chemistry,

homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.

Keen at problem solving, good team-worker, dynamic, efficient at meeting deadlines.

Skills

Coil coatings preparation and quality testing

Main chemical laboratory and analytical techniques

Reaction protocols development and optimization

Asymmetric synthesis and characterization of organic molecules

Scientific writing and presenting

Scientific events organization

Microsoft office package, OpenOffice package, OriginPro, ChemDraw, Gimp

Experience

06/2016 – today

01/2016 – 06/2016

01/2014 - 01/2016

R&D coil coatings laboratory technician at Beckers Group, Settala, Italy

Development of new coil coatings formulations within the R&D team

Support to production and quality control

Chemistry substitute teacher at high schools, Milano, Italy

Post-doc at CNR Institute of Molecular Science and Technology, Milano, Italy

Sustainable epoxidation of terminal aliphatic alkenes over titanium and

niobium-based heterogeneous catalysts

One-pot stereoselective dihydroxylation of limonene by combining metal and

enzyme catalysis

New protocols and formulations for the detoxification of chemical warfare

Catalysed selective openings of epoxides

Member of “ChemBioHaza Milano 2015” organizing committee

01/2012 - 01/2013 Assistant editor for “Asymmetric Organocatalysis” Versita – Emerging Science

Publishers (home-based)

01/2012 - 09/2012 Visiting PhD student at Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung Mülheim an der

Ruhr, Germany

Resolutions of Diols via Catalytic Asymmetric Acetalization

Asymmetric synthesis of imidazolidinones

Various projects in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis

11/2010 - 01/2014

PhD student at La Sapienza University Rome, Italy

Organocatalytic asymmetric nucleophilic epoxidation of -Ylideneoxindoles

Study and preparation of new organocatalysts

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Education and trainings

PhD in Chemistry at La Sapienza University, Roma, Italy (2010-2014).

BASF Summer Course 2013 at BASF plant, Mannheim am Mein, Germany.

Qualification to the Chemist Profession at La Sapienza University, Roma. Mark: 182/210

(2010).

Master degree in Chemistry, specific field organic and bio-molecular chemistry at La Sapienza

University, Roma. Mark: 110/110 (2008-2010).

Bachelor degree in Chemistry, specific field organic and bio-molecular chemistry at La Sapienza

University, Roma. Mark: 107/110 (2004-2008).

Secondary school scientific diploma at Primo Levi High School, Roma. Mark: 100/100 (2004).

Scientific publications

M. Guidotti, C. Palumbo, “Catalytic Epoxidation of Organics from Vegetable Sources”, Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry 2016.

C. Palumbo, E. E. Ferrandi, C. Marchesi, D. Monti, S. Riva, R. Psaro, M. Guidotti, “One–pot Selective Dihydroxylation of Limonene Combining Metal and Enzyme Catalysis”, ChemistrySelect 2016, 1, 1795-1798.

C. Palumbo, C. Tiozzo, N. Ravasio, R. Psaro, F. Carniato, C. Bisio, M. Guidotti, “An efficient epoxidation of terminal aliphatic alkenes over heterogeneous catalysts: when solvent matters”, Catal. Sci. Technol. 2016, 6, 3832-3839.

C. Bisio, F. Carniato, C. Palumbo, S. L. Safronyuk, M. F. Starodub, A. M. Katsev, L. Marchese, M. Guidotti, “Nanosized inorganic metal oxides as heterogeneous catalysts for the degradation of chemical warfare agents”, Catal. Today 2016, 277, 192-199.

J.-H. Kim, I. Čorić, C. Palumbo, and B. List, “Resolutions of Diols via Catalytic Asymmetric Acetalization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1778-1781.

C. Tiozzo, C. Palumbo, R. Psaro, C. Bisio, F. Carniato, A. Gervasini, P. Carniti, M. Guidotti, “The stability of niobium-silica catalysts in repeated liquid-phase epoxidation tests: a comparative evaluation of in-framework and grafted mixed oxides.” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2015, 431, 190-196.

C. Palumbo, M. Guidotti, “Organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis of fine chemicals: definitions, trends and developments”. ScienceOpen Research 2015, 1-22 (DOI 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-CHEM.AGZIIB.v3).

R. Marcia de Figueiredo, A. Mazziotta, D. Pereira de Sant'Ana, C. Palumbo, T. Gasperi, “Active Methylene Compounds in Asymmetric Organocatalytic Synthesis of Natural Products and Pharmaceutical Scaffolds”. Curr. Org. Chem. 2012, 16, 2231-2289.

C. Palumbo, G. Mazzeo, A. Mazziotta, A. Gambacorta, M. A. Loreto, A. Migliorini, S. Superchi, D. Tofani, T. Gasperi, “Noncovalent Organocatalysis: a powerful tool for the nucleophilic

Epoxidation of -Ylideneoxindoles”. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 6248-6251.

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Autorizzo il trattamento e la comunicazione dei dati personali ai sensi dell’articolo 13 del D.lgs 30 Giugno 2003 N. 196