Dr. Vito Capriati

Vito Capriati is full professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy-Drug-Sciences of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, and has been serving as the Director of Interuniversity Consortium CINMPIS since 2016. He was a visiting scientist at the Ohio State University (USA) in 2001 and visiting professor at Göthenburg University (Sweden) in 2003. His main research interests revolve around the chemistry of highly polarized organometallic compounds, the synthesis and reactivity of new functionalized heterocycles, asymmetric catalysis, and the development of new sustainable chemical processes employing unconventional reaction media such as water and deep eutectic solvents. He was the recipient of the CINMPIS Prize “Innovation in Organic Synthesis” in 2009 and of the Award of the Italian Chemical Society (Organic Division) for “Mechanistic and Theoretical Aspects of Organic Chemistry” in 2014. He has authored/co-authored over 170 papers, 7 book chapters, 2 patents, and delivered several plenary and invited talks and seminars at national and international meetings. Additionally, he served as a co-editor of “Lithium Compounds in Organic Synthesis From Fundamentals to Applications”, published in 2014. Since 2019, he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.