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Professor Roberto Arturo Rossi was born in March 27th, 1943, in Jesús María, a small town
near Córdoba city, in Argentina. He is a second generation of Italian and Spanish immigrants to
study in a public university of high academic standards as is the National University of Córdoba
(NUC), center of the University Reform that spread from Córdoba to other Latin American
countries in 1918.
Roberto graduated as a biochemist in 1965 from the Institute of Chemical Sciences, which in
1971 turned into the Faculty of Chemical Sciences (FCS-NUC). He received his Ph.D. degree
from the same institution in 1967 with honors. His thesis dealt with the chemistry of benzyne
intermediates. His Ph.D. thesis adviser was Professor Héctor E. Bertorello, one of the pioneer
organic chemistry professors and organizer of the Organic Chemistry Department.
In 1970, Roberto was awarded an external fellowship from CONICET, the National Research
Council of Argentina, to carry out postdoctoral studies under the guidance of Professor Joseph F.
Bunnett at the University of California in Santa Cruz, USA (UCSC). This stay abroad was the
beginning of great many things to come.
Shortly before his arrival in Professor Bunnett´s laboratory, Bunnett and Kim had discovered
that besides the up-to-then known mechanisms for substitution of aromatic halides, another
pathway for substitution was possible. This route did not involve the movement of electron pairs
(polar reactions), but the displacement of single electrons at a time; in other words, aromatic
substitution by electron transfer. This meant that the mechanistic pathway, proposed
independently by Kornblum and Russel in 1966 for the nucleophilic substitution of aliphatic
halides activated by electron withdrawing groups at the α−carbon, could also be applied to the
substitution of non-activated aromatic halides.
Roberto was the first Professor from the Organic Chemistry Department to look at the π
Hückel method to interpret mechanistic aspects of experimental systems. He devotes a fair
amount of time modeling his ideas on his PC with semiempirical molecular orbital packages.
The Ph.D. curriculum course he taught on Molecular Orbital Theory in 1979 had a decisive
influence on my future. From then on I became very much involved with the procedures of
Computational Chemistry and their applications to the study of organic reactions. My
associations with him in this area started in 1982, when I returned from a postdoctoral stay with
Professor Michael J. S. Dewar.
In addition to his scientific pursuits, Roberto actively participates in the making of research
and development policy at national level. He encouraged us to become members of the Instituto
de Investigaciones Fisico Químicas de Córdoba (INFIQC), a CONICET institute for
development of Physical-Chemistry in Córdoba. This participation was possible due to the vision
of a group of Professors from the Physical-Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Departments of the
Faculty.
He has been, and currently is on the Chemistry Committee boards of CONICET, has been
involved with the National Secretary of Science and Technology, in relation to the development
of the Fine Chemistry Project and with the National University of Córdoba as Secretary of
Science and Technology. He was a member on the first directive board of CONICOR, the
Research Council of the Province of Córdoba, created by the visionary Professor Ranwell
Caputto. As member of CONICOR Roberto has had a central role in the foundation of the
Applied Research Center of the Faculty (CEQUIMAP) for which he was Director, participating
in different applied projects. He also had the high responsibility of being Dean of the FCS-NUC
when democracy returned to the country and universities (1983-1986).
He has been Full (1983-1987) and Associate (1987-1991) Member of the Organic Chemistry
Division of IUPAC. He is fully engaged with the Argentine Organic Chemistry Association,
SAIQO, for which he was Chair (l986-87). Currently, Roberto is a member of numerous national
and international organizations and a scientific adviser to the National Secretary of Science and
Technology (SECYT). He has reached the highest research-academic position of the scientific
career of CONICET, is Head of INFIQC, a scientifically-recognized institute of CONICET, and
in 1989 was elected a member of the Argentine National Academy of Science.
Roberto has published over 150 research articles and reviews, among the latter a monograph of
the American Chemical Society (1983) translated into Russian in l986. He has written several
chapters in different books and a recently published article in Chemical Reviews. He has also
received several awards, including the Konex Award in Organic Chemistry (1983), the Bernardo
Houssay Award from CONICET (1987) and The Antorchas Fellowship (1996).
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Micaela D Heredia,Walter Damian Guerra,Silvia Maricel Barolo, Santiago Jos Eacute Fornasier,Roberto Arturo Rossi,María E Buden
María Ramírez Morán,Jorge E. Ángel Guío,Natividad Herrera Cano,Biagina del Carmen Migliore,Rodolfo Izquierdo,Jaime Charris,Simón E. López,Anita Israel,Ana N. Santiago,Roberto A. Rossi,Luis Perdomo, Akram Samear Dabian,
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