Cristina Bonaccorsi, lecturer, received her Masters in Chemistry (summa cum laude) at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2001 with Prof. Piero Leoni, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 2005, under the supervision of Profs. Antonio Mezzetti and Antonio Togni. She then came to Iowa State University as a postdoctoral research associate with Professor V. S.-Y. Lin (2006 – 2007). Her research interests were focused on organometallic chemistry and its catalytic applications. Since 2007 she has been teaching general chemistry at ISU and DMACC. NOT ACCEPTING STUDENTS

General Chemistry

Bonaccorsi C., Bachmann S., Mezzetti A.,"Electronic Tuning of the PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Cyclopropanation of Olefins Catalyzed by [RuCl(PNNP)]+"Tetrahedron, Asymmetry 2003, 14, 845-854. Toullec P.Y., Bonaccorsi C., Mezzetti A., Togni A., "Expanding the Scope of Asymmetric Electrophilic Atom-transfer Reactions: Titanium- and Ruthenium-catalyzed Hydroxylation of β-Ketoesters" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2004,101, 5810-5814. Bonaccorsi C., Mezzetti A., "Optimization or Breakthrough? The First Highly cis- and Enantioselective Asymmetric Cyclopropanation of 1-Octene by "Electronic and Counterion" Tuning of the [RuCl(PNNP)]+ Catalysts"Organometallics, 2005, 24, 4953-4960. Bonaccorsi C., Mezzetti A., "Ruthenium Complexes with Chiral Tetradentate PNNP Ligands for the Asymmetric Catalytic Atom-transfer Reactions" Curr. Org. Chem.2006, 10, 225-240. Bonaccorsi C., Althaus M., Becker C., Togni, A., Mezzetti A., "Chiral Ru/PNNP Complexes in Catalytic and Stoichiometric Electrophilic O- and F-atom Transfer to 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds"Pure and Applied Chemistry 2006, 78, 391-396. Bonaccorsi C., Santoro F., Gischig S., Mezzetti A., "Chiral Dicationic Bis(aqua) Complexes [Ru(OH2)2(PNNP)]2+: The Effect of Double Chloride Abstraction on Asymmetric Cyclopropanation" Organometallics, 2006, 25, 2002-2010. Althaus M., Bonaccorsi C., Mezzetti A., Santoro F., "Chiral Ruthenium PNNP Complexes of Non-Enolized 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds: Acidity and Involvement in Asymmetric Michael Addition" Organometallics, 2006, 25, 3108-3110. Bonaccorsi C., Fabrizi de Biani F., Leoni P., Marchetti F., Marchetti L., Zanello P., "Site Selectivity in the Reactions of the Hexanuclear Platinum Cluster [Pt6(μ-PtBu2)4(CO)6](CF3SO3)2" Chemistry, A European Journal, 2008, 14, 847-856.

Santoro F., Althaus M., Bonaccorsi C., Gischig S., Mezzetti A., "Acidic Ruthenium PNNP Complexes of Non-Enolized 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds as Catalysts for Asymmetric Michael Addition" Organometallics, 2008, 27, 3866-3878.