Curriculum

Francesco Neve studied Chemistry at the University of Calabria where he received his Laurea cum laude in 1982. After completing a three years-program at the same university, in 1988 he received the PhD for work on metal-hydrogen bond formation in polynuclear complexes.

In 1989-90 he was a postdoctoral CNR-NATO fellow at the University of California, Davis (USA) in the group of Prof. Alan L. Balch working at the synthesis of metallomacrocyclic systems. From 1991 to 1998 he has been Ricercatore at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Calabria. Since 1998 he is an Associate Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department.

Early illuminated on the way of crystal beauty (and chemical design thereafter) by a polish B&W movie ("Struktura krysztalu", K. Zanussi, 1969), his research training and academic work has been devoted to coordination, supramolecular and materials chemistry. The research topics varied from nitrosyl complexes to metal hydrides to transition metal-based liquid crystals. Organic-inorganic solids, photoluminescent complexes (especially with Ir(III)) and self-organizing species were the latest additions.

He is the author or coauthor of several books. His most recent textbooks are the second, revised edition of Carbonio. Storia di un materiale del futuro (2011) and Chimica di Coordinazione, dalla teoria alla pratica (2013).

In recent years, he has started a collaboration with the Chimica e l'Industria magazine where several contributions have appeared on topics ranging from superheavy chemical elements to antimatter, from chemical bonding to 2-D materials.

A recent contribution on Extreme Chemistry was published by the popular science magazine SAPERE.

His most recent paper "Chemistry of Superheavy Transition Metals" is available for download through the link

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/E9JJTQ4AQIJJ3HMA6BE7/full?target=10.1080/00958972.2022.2084394