Massimiliano Delferro, Ph.D. | Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

 INVITED SPEAKER

• Massimiliano Delferro, Brandon A. Rodriguez, Michael P. Weberski, Jr., and Tobin J. Marks, “Nuclearity Effects in Olefin Polymerization Catalysis”, Advances in Polyolefins 2009, Santa Rosa (CA, USA), 09/20-23/2009.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Michael P. Weberski Jr., Jennifer P. McInnis, Changle Chen, Tobin J. Marks “Nuclearity and Electronic Effects in Olefin Polymerization Catalysis”, Advances in Polyolefins 2011, Santa Rosa (CA, USA), 09/25-28, 2011, invited speaker.

 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

• Massimiliano Delferro, Matteo Tegoni, Vincenzo Verdolino, Daniele Cauzzi “Electronic Effects on the Kinetics of the CH3I Oxidative Addition to Charge-tuned RhI Complexes” 2nd European Chemistry Congress, Torin (Italy), 09/16-20/2008.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Matteo Tegoni, Vincenzo Verdolino, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff,Antonio Tiripicchio “Oxidative Addition of Iodomethane to Charge-Tuned Rhodium(I) Complexes.” XXXVI Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana, Lecce (Italy), 09/01-05/2008.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff, Antonio Tiripicchio “Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Zwitterionic Metalates of Palladium(II)” VIII Congresso del Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica (CoGICO 2008), Perugia, 06/25-28/2008.

• Daniele Cauzzi, Massimiliano Delferro, Claudia Graiff, Tegoni Matteo, Antonio Tiripicchio “Rh(I) complexes with the zwitterionic ligand EtNHC(S)Ph2P=NPPh2C(S)Net. Coordinative versatility and acid-base properties.” XXXV Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Inorganica della Società Chimica Italiana, Milan (Italy), 09/03-07/2007.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff, Antonio Tiripicchio “Zwitterionic Metalletes of Rh(I)”, Interuniversity Consortium Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis, Perugia (Italy), 02/23-24/2007.

 POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Jiaxi Wang, Neng Guo, Irene Bassanetti, Massimiliano Delferro,  Tobin J. Marks “Statistical Strategies to Enchainment Cooperativity between Single-Site Olefin Polymerization Catalysts. Maximizing Heterometallic Ion Pairing via a Dendrimeric Tetranuclear Cocatalyst/Activator”, Gordon Conference-Organometallics 2011, Salve Regina University, Newport (RI, USA), 07/09-15 2011.

• Michael P. Weberski Jr., Changle Chen, Massimiliano Delferro, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Alceo Macchioni, and Tobin J. Marks “Suppression of β-H Chain Transfer in Nickel(II)-Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization via Weak Secondary Ligand Interactions“, Gordon Conference-Organometallics 2011, Salve Regina University, Newport (RI, USA), 07/09-15 2011.

• Jennifer P. McInnis, Massimiliano Delferro, Tobin J. Marks Gordon Conference-Organometallics 2011, Salve Regina University, Newport (RI, USA), 07/09-15 2011.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Jennifer P. McInnis, and Tobin J. Marks "Ethylene Polymerization Characteristics of an Electron-Deficient Nickel(II) Phenoxyiminato Catalyst Modulated by Non-Innocent Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding." Gordon Conference-Organometallics 2010 , Newport (Rhode Island, USA), 07/10-16/2010.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff, Giovanni Predieri, Antonio Tiripicchio “Reactivity of the zwitterionic ligand EtNHC(S)Ph2P=NPPh2C(S)NEt towards [Ru3(CO)12]. Sulfur transfer and ligand fragmentation leading to the methideylamide [-N(Et)-CH(R)-] μ3-bridging moiety.” VIII Congresso del Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica (CoGICO 2008), Perugia (Italy), 06/25-28/2008.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff, Giovanni Predieri, Antonio Tiripicchio, “Zwitterionic Metallates of Pd(II) with the ligand EtNHC(S)PPh2NPPh2C(S)NEt” 1st European Chemistry Congress, Budapest (Hungary), 08/27-31/2006.

• Lorenzo Barbieri, Daniele Cauzzi, Massimiliano Delferro, Claudia Graiff, Maurizio Lanfranchi, Roberto Pattacini, Alessandro Stercoli, Antonio Tiripicchio “A new class of zwitterionic metallates”1st European Chemistry Congress, Budapest (Hungary), 08/27-31/2006.

• Massimiliano Delferro, Daniele Cauzzi, Claudia Graiff, Antonio Tiripicchio “Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Zwitterionic Metalates of Palladium(II)” VII Congresso del Gruppo Interdivisionale di Chimica Organometallica (CoGICO 2006), Parma (Italy), 07/09-12/2006.