Lidia Vallarino

Lidia Vallarino (1930–2017) was an inorganic chemist who was chemistry lecturer at the University of Milan. In the 1950s and 19960s, she was a rare example of a well-published female active in coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry.[1][2]

Vallarino received her PhD in 1954 from the University of Milan under the supervision of L. Malatesta for work on isocyanide complexes.[3] She later took a position at ICI Laboratories under Joseph Chatt, where she worked on diene complexes of the platinum group metals.[4] As an independent scientist, she worked on both organorhodium chemistry[5] and macrocyclic complexes of the lanthanides.[6] She retired as professor of chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Further reading

  • J. V. Quagliano, L. Vallarino (1969). Coordination Chemistry. D C Heath & Company.
  • L. M Vallarino (1975). Chemistry, a humanistic approach (Challenges to science). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070510253.

References

  1. ^ "Lidia Vallarino".
  2. ^ "Lidia Vallarino Quagliano 1930 - 2017".
  3. ^ Malatesta, L.; Vallarino, L. (1956). "366. IsoCyano-complexes of rhodium. Part I. Tetraisocyanorhodium(I) salts". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1867. doi:10.1039/jr9560001867.
  4. ^ Chatt, J.; Vallarino, (Miss) L. M.; Venanzi, L. M. (1957). "Olefin Co-ordination Compounds. Part IV. Diene Complexes of Platinum(II). The Structure of Hofmann and von Narbutt's [dicyclopentadiene(RO)PtCl]". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 2496. doi:10.1039/JR9570002496.
  5. ^ Vallarino, L. M. (1965). "Preparation and Properties of a Series of Halocarbonylrhodates". Inorganic Chemistry. 4 (2): 161–165. doi:10.1021/ic50024a007.
  6. ^ De Cola, L.; Smailes, D. L.; Vallarino, L. M. (1986). "Hexaaza Macrocyclic Complexes of the Lanthanides". Inorganic Chemistry. 25 (10): 1729–1732. doi:10.1021/ic00230a042.