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POLITECNICO DI TORINO Repository ISTITUZIONALE Proceedings of the Merck & Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium (MEYCS 2018) Original Proceedings of the Merck & Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium (MEYCS 2018) / Bella, F.; Botta, L.; Cucciniello, R.; D’Urso, A.; Franco, P.; Lenci, E.; Mazzone, G.; Schlich, M.; Soldà, A.; Spezzano, R.; Staderini, S.; Triggiani, L.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 1-212. Availability: This version is available at: 11583/2721829 since: 2018-12-28T16:16:28Z Publisher: Società Chimica Italiana Published DOI: Terms of use: openAccess This article is made available under terms and conditions as specified in the corresponding bibliographic description in the repository Publisher copyright (Article begins on next page) 04 August 2020 An event by Book of Abstracts Rimini (Italy) November 19th – 21 st, 2018 Proceedings of the Merck & Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium XVIII edition Edited by: F. Bella, L. Botta, R. Cucciniello, A. D’Urso, P. Franco, E. Lenci, G. Mazzone, M. Schlich, A. Soldà, R. Spezzano, S. Staderini, and L. Triggiani Copyright © 2018 Società Chimica Italiana, Viale Liegi 48C, 00198- Roma ISBN: 978-88-94952-03-2 2 Welcome message Dear participants, welcome to the 18th edition of the Merck & Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium, formerly SAYCS and MYCS. This conference is an international scientific event organized by the Young Group of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI Giovani) with the financial support of Merck and Elsevier. This symposium is fully devoted to young researchers, such as MSc and PhD students, post-doc fellows and young researchers in companies. All the disciplines of Chemistry are covered: analytical, physical, industrial, organic, inorganic, theoretical, pharmaceutical, biological, environmental, macromolecular and electrochemistry. This year, a special emphasis will be given to chemistry from knowledge to innovation: how chemistry is increasingly present in all of the fields that are essential for human life, and how chemical fundamentals are pushing novel technologies? This year we have the exceptional number of 212 participants; we thank you for the great trust shown towards SCI Giovani, Merck and Elsevier. Enjoy the conference! Federico Bella Coordinator of SCI-Giovani HOW TO CITE YOUR WORK The scientific contributions of this conference are collected in an international volume with ISBN code. You can cite your work in this way: N. Surname, N. Surname, … and N. Surname, “Abstract title”, in “Proceedings of the Merck & Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium (MEYCS 2018)”, Ed. F. Bella, L. Botta, R. Cucciniello, A. D’Urso, P. Franco, E. Lenci, G. Mazzone, M. Schlich, A. Soldà, R. Spezzano, S. Staderini and L. Triggiani, ISBN: 978-88-94952-03-2, page number, 2018, Rome. 3 Index Plenary and Invited talks 6 Oral presentations 12 Flash communications 114 Posters 157 Sponsors talks 195 List of participants 205 4 5 Invited and Plenary Talks PL-1 Pierangelo METRANGOLO PL-2 Luisa TORSI PL-3 Michele PAVONE INV-1 Nicola CAVALLINI 6 PL-1 Self-organization and emerging properties of halogenated peptide assemblies Pierangelo Metrangolo Dept. Chem., Mater., and Chem. Eng. “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131-Milano, Italy and Hyber Center of Excellence, Dept. Appl. Phys., Aalto University, Puumiehenkuja 2, 00076-Espoo, Finland E-mail: [email protected] A halogen bond occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between an electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity.1 Although many modifications of amyloidogenic sequences have been utilized to tune their self-assembly behavior, halogenation has rarely been pursued. The advantage of a strategy based on the introduction of halogen atoms on peptide motifs lies in the fact that halogenation is a minimal structural modification, which, on the other hand, may induce a large difference in the peptide supramolecular behavior as a consequence of the rich variety of noncovalent interactions given by halogen atoms. In this presentation, I will show how the halogen bond can be used to promote the molecular self-assembly of peptides. We have applied this new supramolecular concept to the augmented fibrillation of amyloidogenic peptides2,3 and the control of their nanostructures4 (Figure 1). The obtainment of a novel unnatural amino acid functioning as strong halogen-bond donor has allowed to engineer the hydrophobic cavity of an amyloid fibril. Implications in molecular mechanisms of diseases and examples of novel biomimetic elastomers will also be presented. Figure 1. Halogenated derivatives of KLVFF showing various nanoarchitectures. [1] G. Cavallo, P. Metrangolo, R. Milani, T. Pilati, A. Priimagi, G. Resnati, G. Terraneo, Chem. Rev. 116 (2016) 2478-2601. [2] A. Bertolani, A. Pizzi, L. Pirrie, L. Gazzera, G. Morra, M. Meli, G. Colombo, A. Genoni, G. Cavallo, G. Terraneo, P. Metrangolo, Chem. Eur. J. 22 (2017) 2051-2058. [3] A. Bertolani, L. Pirrie, L. Stefan, N. Houbenov, J.S. Haataja, L. Catalano, G. Terraneo, G. Giancane, L. Valli, R. Milani, O. Ikkala, G. Resnati, P. Metrangolo, Nat. Commun. 6 (2015) art. no. 7574. [4] A. Pizzi, L. Lascialfari, N. Demitri, A. Bertolani, D. Maiolo, E. Carretti, P. Metrangolo, CrystEngComm 19 (2017) 1870-1874. [5] A. Pizzi, C. Pigliacelli, A. Gori, Nonappa, O. Ikkala, N. Demitri, G. Terraneo, V. Castelletto, I.W. Hamley, F. Baldelli Bombellia, P. Metrangolo, Nanoscale 9 (2017) 9805-9810. Acknowledgements: The ERC, projects no.s 307108 and 789815, and Fondazione Cariplo, project 2014-0746, are gratefully acknowledged for funding. 7 PL-2 Single molecule detection of markers with a label-free bio-electronic sensor Eleonora Macchia,a Kyriaki Manoli,a Brigitte Holzer,a Cinzia Di Franco,b Matteo Ghittorelli,c Fabrizio Torricelli,c Domenico Alberga,d Giuseppe Felice Mangiatordi,d Gerardo Palazzo,a,f Gaetano Scamarcio,b,e and Luisa Torsia,f,g a Dipartimento di Chimica - Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona 4, 70125-Bari, Italy b CNR - Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Via Amendola 173, 70126-Bari, Italy c Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123-Brescia, Italy d Dipartimento di Farmacia - Scienze del Farmaco, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona 4, 70125-Bari, Italy e Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin”, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Amendola 173, 70125-Bari, Italy f CSGI (Centre for Colloid and Surface Science), Via Orabona 4, 70125-Bari, Italy g The Faculty of Science and Engineering - Åbo Akademi University, 20014-Turun yliopisto, Finland E-mail: [email protected] Label-free single-molecule detection has been achieved so far by funnelling a large number of ligands into a sequence of single-binding events with few recognition elements host on nanometric transducers. Such approaches are inherently unable to sense a cue in a bulk milieu. Conceptualizing cells’ ability to sense at the physical limit by means of highly-packed recognition elements, a millimetric sized field-effect-transistor is used to detect a single molecule. To this end, the gate is bio-functionalized with a self-assembled-monolayer of trillions of capturing anti-Immunoglobulin-G and is endowed with a hydrogen-bonding network enabling cooperative-interactions. The selective and label-free single- molecule IgG detection is strikingly demonstrated in diluted saliva while 15 IgGs are assayed in whole serum. The suggested sensing mechanism triggered by the affinity binding event, involves a work-function change that is assumed to propagate in the gating-field through the electrostatic hydrogen-bonding network. The proposed immunoassay platform is general and can revolutionize the current approach to protein detection [1]. [1] E. Macchia, K. Manoli, B. Holzer, C. Di Franco, M. Ghittorelli, F. Torricelli, D. Alberga, G.F. Mangiatordi, G. Palazzo, G. Scamarcio, L. Torsi, Nat. Commun. 9 (2018) art. no. 3223. 8 PL-3 Addressing renewable energy challenges with quantum chemistry Michele Pavone Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Comp. Univ. Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia 21, 80126-Naples, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Global advances in industrialization are precipitating the rapid consumption of fossil fuel resources with increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases. After the UN international conference on climate change (Paris 2015) and despite the recent political shift in USA, there is a worldwide consensus on implementing all possible actions to dislodge our dependence on oil, coal and natural gas. World sustainability requires viable sources of renewable energy and new technologies for its efficient conversion into commodities such as fuels or electricity. Chemistry and materials sciences play a pivotal role in optimizing the functional materials that are at the core of energy conversion devices. This is not a trivial task. The conversion of energy is the result of several physical and chemical processes that involve chemical reactions, charge and mass transport occurring across multiple heterogeneous interfaces. Often, experimental techniques cannot dissect subtle features at the nanoscale that can hinder an effective design of new devices. Thus, the application of computational modeling tools with atomistic resolution represents an ongoing revolution in materials design and device development. In this context, Quantum Mechanics (QM) offers an