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Franco Ghelfi

Researcher at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Publications -  156
Citations -  1583

Franco Ghelfi is an academic researcher from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radical cyclization & Catalysis. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 155 publications receiving 1507 citations.

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Silybin, a new iron-chelating agent

TL;DR: The experimental results show that silybin binds Fe(III) even at acidic pH, which shows the possible role of sily bin in relation to the chelation therapy of chronic iron overload, as occurs in the treatment of Cooley's anemia.
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Halogen atom transfer radical cyclization of N-allyl-N-benzyl-2,2-dihaloamides to 2-pyrrolidinones, promoted by Fe0-FeCl3 or CuCl-TMEDA

TL;DR: In this article, the halogen atom transfer radical cyclization of a Nallyl-N-benzyl-2,2-dihaloamides to 2-pyrrolidinones has been carried out in high yields under mild conditions, in a reaction promoted by CuCl-TMEDA or Fe0-FeCl3 in acetonitrile or N,N-dimethylformamide, respectively.
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Metal-catalysed radical cyclisations leading to N-heterocycles: new approaches to gabapentin and pulchellalactam

TL;DR: The copper(I) or ruthenium(II)-mediated radical cyclisation of halo-amides has been utilised to afford functionalised pyrrolidinones via 5-endo-trig or 5-exo- trig radicalcyclisation pathways.
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Atom transfer radical cyclization (ATRC) applied to a chemoenzymatic synthesis of Quercus lactones

TL;DR: In this paper, the natural fragrances (+)- trans whisky lactone 2 and (+- trans cognac lactone 4, together with a minor amount of their (−)- cis stereoisomers, were prepared in 50% and 42% overall yield, respectively, starting from racemic 1-hepten-3-ol (±)- 5 and 1-octen- 3-ol(±)- 6.