# Giuseppe Resnati

Giuseppe Resnati (born 26 August 1955) is an Italian chemist with interests in supramolecular chemistry and fluorine chemistry. He has a particular focus on self-assembly processes driven by halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, and pnictogen bonds. His results on the attractive non-covalent interactions wherein atoms act as electrophiles thanks to the anisotropic distribution of the electron density typical for bonded atoms, prompted a systematic rationalization and categorization of many different weak bonds formed by many elements of the p- and d-blocks of the periodic table.

## Education and professional positions

Resnati was born in Monza, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan in 1988 with Prof. Carlo Scolastico and a thesis on asymmetric synthesis via chiral sulfoxides. After a period of activity at the Italian National Research Council, in 2001 he became professor of chemistry for materials at the Politecnico di Milano.

## Research interests

His research interests cover/have covered the following topics:
* enantioselective synthesis of mono- and polyfluorinated compounds and synthesis via perfluorinated reagents (perfluorinated oxaziridines as powerful yet selective oxidizing agents)
* fluorinated contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging
* intermolecular forces and their use in crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry, Borromean rings, and self-assembly processes in the design and preparation of functional materials
* halogen bond and iodine chemistry; chalcogen bond.
* green chemistry

## Honors and awards

* van der Waals Prize 2021 (awarded in 2022 by the 2nd International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions, ICNI-2022)
* RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences (awarded in 2010 by Royal Society of Chemistry/Società Chimica Italiana)
* Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry Award (awarded in 2008 by Società Chimica Italiana)
* Corrado Fuortes award (awarded in 1986 by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere)
* Invited professor at the University of Strasbourg (2012, Strasbourg, France)
* Invited professor at the Nagoya University (2001, Nagoya, Japan)
* Invited professor at the Paris-Sud University (1996, Châtenay-Malabry, France)
* Senior NATO Fellowship (1989-1990, Clemson University, SC, USA)
* Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2012)
* Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier, 2001-2023); of Crystals (MDPI, 2015 onwards); of Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy (Elsevier, 2017-2019)
* Topic Editor of Crystal Growth & Design (ACS) (2012 onwards)
* Member of the International Steering Committee of the: -International Conference on Noncovalent Intereactions (ICNI) from ICNI-1 (Lisbon, Portugal; 2019) onwards; -International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) from ISFC-15 (Vancouver, Canada; 1997) to ISFC-23 (Quebec, Canada; 2023); -International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry (HalChem) from Halchem-V (Cagliari, Italy; 2010) onwards; -European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC) from ESFC-11 (Bled, Slovenia; 1995) onwards
* Chair of the: -21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23-28 August 2015, Como, Italy); -1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-1)(18-22 June 2014, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy)
* Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4-8 September 2016, Venice, Italy); member of the International Scientific Committee of the 2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, 14–17 May 2017, Berlin, Germany; member of the Committee of the Faraday Discussion "Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry", 10–12 July 2017, Ottawa, Canada
* Coordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network “GREENOMIcS - Green Chemistry Excellence from the Baltic See to the Mediterranean See and Beyond” (2017–2023)
* President of the Rotary Club Rozzano Parco Sud in the rotarian year 2006-'07; assistant of the Governor of the District 2050 (south Lombardy) from 2009 to 2013; advisor of District 2050 Governor for starting Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia (2012), Club charter member (2013) and president (2015–16)
* Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (2022)
* Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2020)
* Knight of Merit with Silver Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (SMOCSG) (2020); Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (OSSML) (2022); Knight of the Order of Prince Danilo I (2022).