Photochemistry: Volume 39

About

Angelo Albini is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Pavia Italy. A native of Milan he completed his studies in Chemistry at Pavia in 1972. After postdoctoral work at the Max-Plank Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Muelheim Germany (1973-74) he joined the Faculty at Pavia in 1975 as an assistant and then associate (since 1981) professor. He accepted a Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Torino in 1990 and then moved again to Pavia in 1993. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Western Ontario (Canada 1977-78) and Odense (Denmark 1983). He is active in the field of organic photochemistry organic synthesis via radical and ions photoinitiated reactions mild synthetic procedure in the frame of the increasing interest for substainable/green chemistry applied photochemistry (photostability of dyes drugs photoinduced degradation of pollutants. He has been responsible of several research projects sponsored by national and international institutions and devoted to the above topics and coordinates the æGreen ChemistryÆ group of the Italian Chemical Society. He is coauthor/editor of three books (Heterocyclic N-Oxides CRC Orlando 1990 Drugs: Photochemistry and Photostability RSC Cambridge 1998 and Handbook of Preparative Photochemistry Wiley-VCH 2009) the senior reporter of the Specialist Periodic Reports on Photochemistry (RSC) since 2008 as well as coauthor ca. 280 research articles. He has been the recipient of the Federchimica Prize for creativity in chemistry in 1990.