Dr. Sebastian Osvaldo Simonetti

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Natural Product Chemistry,Theoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation
KeywordsElectrochemistry, Heterocycles, DFT, Natural products, Synthetic strategies
Honours and awards

2024: Forschungsaufenthalte für Hochschullehrer und Wissenschaftler, DAAD programme

2017: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research

2017: Special Mention SAIQO Award Best Doctoral Thesis

2016: CONICET posdoctoral fellowship

2014: Fullbright-FByB Scholarship

2013: FAPESP scholarship for advanced school in bioorganic chemistry

2011: Award for the Best Work in Organic Synthesis. XVIII SINAQO.

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityRosario
InstitutionUniversidad Nacional de Rosario
InstituteInstituto de Quimica Rosario (IQUIR-CONICET)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Fabian PfrengleAbteilung Biomolekulare Systeme, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Golm
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2017

Programme(s)

2017Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Simonetti, Sebastián O. and Beil, Sebastian B. and Waldvogel, Siegfried R.: Nitro Substrates in Reductive Electrosynthesis: A Review. In: ACS Electrochemistry, 1, 2025, 805-818
2025Yohana B. Palacios and Sebastián O. Simonetti and Claudia Hernández Chavez and María G. Álvarez and Paula V. Cordero and Emma A. Cuello and Edwin J. {González López} and Enrique L. Larghi and Maximiliano L. Agazzi and Edgardo N. Durantini and Daniel A. Heredia: “Illuminated Glycoporphyrins”: A photodynamic approach for Candida albicans inactivation. In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 264, 2025, 113105
2024Vargas, Didier F. and Fonzo, Santiago and Simonetti, Sebastian O. and Kaufman, Teodoro S. and Larghi, Enrique L.: A rhodium-catalyzed C–H activation/cyclization approach toward the total syntheses of cassiarin C and 8-O-methylcassiarin A from a common intermediate. In: Org. Biomol. Chem., 22, 2024, 7880-7894
2024Larghi, Enrique L. and Bracca, Andrea B. J. and Simonetti, Sebastian O. and Kaufman, Teodoro S.: Relevant Developments in the Use of Three-Component Reactions for the Total Synthesis of Natural Products. The last 15 Years. In: ChemistryOpen, 13, 2024, e202300306
2021Simonetti, Sebastián O. and Kaufman, Teodoro S. and Rasia, Rodolfo M. and Sarotti, Ariel M. and Grimblat, Nicolás: Thermal decomposition of hexamethylenetetramine: mechanistic study and identification of reaction intermediates via a computational and NMR approach. In: Org. Biomol. Chem., 19, 2021, 7374-7378
2019Méndez, María V. and Simonetti, Sebastian O. and Kaufman, Teodoro S. and Bracca, Andrea B. J.: A concise Friedländer/Buchwald–Hartwig approach to the total synthesis of quindoline{,} a bioactive natural indoloquinoline alkaloid{,} and toward the unnatural 10-methylquindoline. In: New J. Chem., 43, 2019, 10803-10813
2019Sebastian O. Simonetti, Silvina C. Pellegrinet: Asymmetric Organocatalytic C?C Bond Forming Reactions with Organoboranes: A Mechanistic Survey. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019,
2017Debora Senf, Colin Ruprecht, Goswinus H. M. de Kruijff, Sebastian O. Simonetti, Frank Schuhmacher, Peter H. Seeberger, Fabian Pfrengle: Active Site Mapping of Xylan-Deconstructing Enzymes with Arabinoxylan Oligosaccharides Produced by Automated Glycan Assembly. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2017, 3197-3205
2016Sebastian O. Simonetti, Enrique L. Larghi, Teodoro S. Kaufman: A convenient approach to an advanced intermediate toward the naturally occurring, bioactive 6-substituted 5-hydroxy-4-aryl-1H-quinolin-2-ones. In: Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2016, 2625-2636
2016Nicolas Grimblat Ariel M. Sarotti Teodoro S. Kaufman Sebastian O. Simonetti: A theoretical study of the Duff reaction: Insights into its selectivity. In: Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2016, 10496-10501
2016Sebastian O. Simonetti, Enrique L. Larghi, Teodoro S: Kaufman: The 3,4-dioxygenated 5-hydroxy-4-aryl-quinolin-2(1: H)-one alkaloids. Results of 20 years of research, uncovering a new family of natural product. In: Natural Products Reports, 2016, 1425-1446
2015Sebastian O. Simonetti Enrique L. Larghi Teodoro S. Kaufman: Alternate and step-economic synthesis of the ?-Methylstyrene chelating pre-ligand of the Hoveyda-Grubbs II catalyst. In: Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 2015, 227-231
2015Enrique L. Larghi Andrea B. J. Bracca Abel A. Arroyo Aguilar Daniel A. Heredia Jorgelina L. Pergomet Sebastian O. Simonetti Teodoro S. Kaufman: Neocryptolepine: A promising indoloisoquinoline alkaloid with interesting biological activity. Evaluation of the drug and its most relevant analogs. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2015, 1683-1707
2015Natalia L. Calvo Sebastian O. Simonetti Ruben M. Maggio Teodoro S. Kaufman: Thermally induced solid-state transformation of cimetidine. A multi-spectroscopic/chemometrics determination of the kinetics of the process and structural elucidation of one of the products as a stable N3-enamino tautomer. In: analytica chimica acta, 2015, 22-32
n.n.Simonetti, Sebasti{\'a}n Osvaldo O and Pellegrinet, Silvina Carla: Theoretical Study of the Borono-Mannich Reaction with Pinacol Allenylboronate. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, n.n.,