Rocco Ungaro, 40 years of Calixarene chemistry

Abstract

During the Calix2015 conference that took place in Giardini Naxos in July of this year, the first C. David Gutsche Award for Calixarene Chemistry was awarded to one of the founders of the field, Professor Rocco Ungaro of the University of Parma. In this paper, Rocco Ungaro’s seminal contributions to the field are described. His collaborations with many other groups, his role in the European supramolecular chemistry community and his most important scientific results are briefly summarised.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Professor Alessandro Casnati (University of Parma) for his valuable contributions to this paper, in particular concerning the more recent chemistry described in this article.

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