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• workRoom A13 GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 7487066
• Mattia.Silvi@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr. Mattia Silvi was born in Rieti (Italy) and obtained his BSc degree in Analytical Chemistry and MSc degree in Organic Chemistry at the University Sapienza (Rome, Italy) working in the laboratory of Prof. Marco Bella. He then carried out his doctoral studies at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, ICIQ (Tarragona, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, working in the fields of organocatalysis and photochemistry (2011-2015). He spent part of his PhD at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, United States) in the group of Prof. John P. Wolfe working in the field of palladium and silver catalysed organic reactions (2014). After his PhD he was awarded a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie European Individual Fellowship and moved to the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) in the group of Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal FRS, where he worked in the fields of boron chemistry, photochemistry and prostanoids synthesis (2016-2019). In 2019 he was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship to start his independent career at the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratories, ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (United Kingdom). Mattia is the recipient of a 2020 EPSRC New Investigator Award and was selected as outstanding reviewer for 2020 by the RSC for the journal Chemical Science. His research interests lie within the fields of sustainable organic chemistry, radical chemistry, photochemistry and asymmetric catalysis.

Research Summary

Solar light is a green and inexhaustible energy source. In our laboratory, we explore the use of visible light for the development of novel methodologies in organic chemistry. Projects ongoing… read more

Selected Publications

• FILIPPO FICARRA and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. NATURE. 623, 36-37
• SUBHASIS PAUL, DARIO FILIPPINI, FILIPPO FICARRA, HEORHII MELNYCHENKO, CHRISTOPHER JANOT and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 145, 15688-15694
• SUBHASIS PAUL, DARIO FILIPPINI and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 145, 2273-2278
• DARIO FILIPPINI and MATTIA SILVI, 2022. NATURE CHEMISTRY. 14, 66-70

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Current Research

Solar light is a green and inexhaustible energy source. In our laboratory, we explore the use of visible light for the development of novel methodologies in organic chemistry. Projects ongoing involve the generation of reactive radical species under remarkably mild conditions harnessing the potential of photoredox catalysis. The main target is to develop novel convenient reactivity platforms to transform cheap and available organic feedstocks into valuable molecules.

• SUBHASIS PAUL, DARIO FILIPPINI and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 145, 2273-2278
• SUBHASIS PAUL, DARIO FILIPPINI, FILIPPO FICARRA, HEORHII MELNYCHENKO, CHRISTOPHER JANOT and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 145, 15688-15694
• FILIPPO FICARRA and MATTIA SILVI, 2023. NATURE. 623, 36-37
• DARIO FILIPPINI and MATTIA SILVI, 2022. NATURE CHEMISTRY. 14, 66-70
• DAVENPORT, RAFFAEL, SILVI, MATTIA, NOBLE, ADAM, HOSNI, ZIED, FEY, NATALIE and AGGARWAL, VARINDER KUMAR, 2020. Visible Light-Driven Strain-Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English).
• SILVI, MATTIA and AGGARWAL, VARINDER K., 2019. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 141(24), 9511-9515
• SILVI, MATTIA, SCHROF, RAFFAEL, NOBLE, ADAM and AGGARWAL, VARINDER K., 2018. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL. 24(17), 4279-4282
• SILVI, MATTIA and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2018. NATURE. 554(7690), 40-48
• VERRIER, CHARLIE, ALANDINI, NURTALYA, PEZZETTA, CRISTOFER, MOLITERNO, MAURO, BUZZETTI, LUCA, HEPBURN, HAMISH B., VEGA-PENALOZA, ALBERTO, SILVI, MATTIA and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2018. ACS CATALYSIS. 8(2), 1062-1066
• PELSS, ANDREJS, GANDHAMSETTY, NARASIMHULU, SMITH, JAMES R., MAILHOL, DAMIEN, SILVI, MATTIA, WATSON, ANDREW J. A., PEREZ-POWELL, ISABEL, PREVOST, SEBASTIEN, SCHUTZENMEISTER, NINA, MOORE, PETER R. and AGGARWAL, VARINDER K., 2018. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL. 24(38), 9542-9545
• SILVI, MATTIA, VERRIER, CHARLIE, REY, YANNICK P., BUZZETTI, LUCA and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2017. NATURE CHEMISTRY. 9(9), 868-873
• SILVI, MATTIA, SANDFORD, CHRISTOPHER and AGGARWAL, VARINDER K., 2017. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 139(16), 5736-5739
• FILIPPINI, GIACOMO, SILVI, MATTIA and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2017. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 56(16), 4447-4451
• GARLETS, ZACHARY J., SILVI, MATTIA and WOLFE, JOHN P., 2016. ORGANIC LETTERS. 18(10), 2331-2334
• JOHN J. MURPHY, MATTIA SILVI and PAOLO MELCHIORRE, 2016. Enamine-Mediated Catalysis (n - π*). In: EDWIN VEDEJS and SCOTT DENMARK, eds., Lewis Base Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, Vol. 2. Wiley. 857 - 902
• SILVI, MATTIA, ARCEO, ELENA, JURBERG, IGOR D., CASSANI, CARLO and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2015. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 137(19), 6120-6123
• SILVI, MATTIA, CHATTERJEE, INDRANIL, LIU, YIANKAI and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2013. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 52(41), 10780-10783
• SILVI, MATTIA, RENZI, POLYSSENA, ROSATO, DEBORAH, MARGARITA, CRISTIANA, VECCHIONI, ALESSIO, BORDACCHINI, IVAN, MORRA, DIEGO, NICOLOSI, ALESSANDRO, CARI, RICCARDO, SCIUBBA, FABIO, SCHIETROMA, DANIELE M. SCARPINO and BELLA, MARCO, 2013. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL. 19(30), 9973-9978
• SILVI, MATTIA, CASSANI, CARLO, MORAN, ANTONIO and MELCHIORRE, PAOLO, 2012. HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA. 95(10), 1985-2006