Degree in chemistry at the University of Padova in 1966.
Postdoctoral-fellow at the Iowa State University (Ames, USA) from
1967 to 1968, full Professor of General ed Inorganic Chemistry,
since 1980, at the University of Bologna. Visiting professor at
Bristol University (UK) in 1982. He is author of more than 150
papers on transition metal organometallic chemistry. His research
interests includes: carbene and carbyne mono and dinuclear
complexes, carbon sulfide activation, thiocarbonyl complexes,
nucleophilic additions to carbonyl complexes, cyclopentadienyl
compounds, C-C and C-H bond formation. From 1995 to 1997 Director
of the Department of Chimica Fisica ed Inorganica and, from 1998 to
2000, Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry in Bologna, where
he founded the inorganic chemistry research group. He has been
President of the Inorganic Division of Italian Chemical Society
(2001-2003). Vice-rector of the University of
Bologna (2000-2009) it has been until 2013 the italian
representative member in the EUCHEMS
(organometallic division). Professor Alma Mater from 2011 to
2013. Professor Emeritus of Bologna University from 2014 ad Member of Accademia delle Scienze of Bologna.
