Sofia M. Bruno

• Researcher at the associated laboratory CICECO since 2019
• Post-doctoral associate at the associated laboratory CICECO | 2009-2019
• X-Ray Diffraction technician at the Central Analysis Laboratory of the University of Aveiro | 2009
• PhD degree in Chemistry by the University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Isabel Sousa Gonçalves and Prof. Paulo Ribeiro Claro | 2009
• BSc (“Licenciatura”) in Chemistry by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, including a 9 month stay at the University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France) under the Erasmus Programme | 2004

• Organometallic complexes
• Immobilization and impregnation of organometallic oxides and carbonyl derivatives
• Homogeneous and heterogenous catalysts
• Oxidation catalysis
• Acid-catalyzed alcoholysis of epoxides
• Catalytic isomerization of monoterpenes

• Professora Isabel Gonçalves
• Doutora Anabela Valente
• Doutor Martyn Pillinger
• Doutora Patrícia Neves
• Doutora Ana Gomes
• Doutora Margarida Antunes
• Doutora Tatiana Amarante

• Professor Isabel Gonçalves
• Professor Paulo Ribeiro Claro
• Professor Luís Dias Carlos
• Professor Carlos Romão (ITQB-UNL)
• Dr Maria Rute Sá Ferreira
• Dr Susana Santos Braga
• Dr Filipe Paz
• Dr Marta Abrantes (IST-UTL)
• Dr Carla Gamelas (ITQB-UNL)

Inês Silva - MSc student in Chemistry, 2022-2023

Bárbara Pinto - MSc student in Chemical Engineering, 2023-2024

Highlight publication

"Group 6 carbonyl complexes of N,O,P-ligands as precursors of high-valent metal-oxo catalysts for olefin epoxidation", Sofia M. Bruno, Anabela A. Valente, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Martyn Pillinger, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 478 (2023) 214983. DOI

Catalytic studies of homo/heterogeneous (pre)catalysts for acid-catalysed reactions

Heterogeneous (pre)catalysts

•  “Catalytic alcoholysis of epoxides using metal-free cucurbituril-based solids”, Sofia M. Bruno, Ana C. Gomes, Tânia S. M. Oliveira, Margarida M. Antunes, André D. Lopes, Anabela A. Valente, Martyn Pillinger, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 14 (2016) 3873-3877. DOI
• "Catalytic isomerization of alpha–pinene oxide in the presence of ETS-10 supported ferricinium ions", Sofia M. Bruno, Ana C. Gomes, Ana C. Coelho, Paula Brandão, Anabela A. Valente, Martyn Pillinger, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 791 (2015) 66-71. DOI

 Homogeneous (pre)catalysts

• "Efficient isomerization of alpha-pinene oxide to campholenic aldehyde promoted by a mixed-ring analogue of molybdenocene", Sofia M. Bruno, Anabela A. Valente, Martyn Pillinger, Jeffrey Amelse, Carlos C. Romão, Isabel S. Gonçalves, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 7 (2019) 13639-13645. DOI
• "Acid-catalyzed epoxide alcoholysis in the presence of indenyl molybdenum carbonyl complexes", Sofia M. Bruno, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Martyn Pillinger, Carlos C. Romão, Anabela A. Valente, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 855 (2018) 12-17. DOI
• Acid-catalysed epoxide ring-opening reactions promoted by organometallic complexes of the type [(η⁵-C₅H₄-R)Mo(CO)₂(η³-C₃H₅)] and [(η⁵-C₅H₅)Mo(CO)₃(CH₂R)]”, Sofia M. Bruno, Ana C. Gomes, Marta Abrantes, Martyn Pillinger, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Anabela A. Valente, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 799-800 (2015) 179-183. DOI
• "Application of an indenyl molybdenum dicarbonyl complex in the isomerisation of alpha-pinene oxide to campholenic aldehyde", Sofia M. Bruno, Ana C. Gomes, Carla A. Gamelas, Marta Abrantes, Maria Conceição Oliveira, Anabela A. Valente, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Martyn Pillinger, Carlos C. Romão, Iisabel S. Gonçalves, New Journal of Chemistry, 38 (2014) 3172-3180. DOI
• "Isomerization of alfa-pinene oxide in the presence of methyltrioxorhenium(VII)", Sofia M. Bruno, Martyn Pillinger, Fritz E. Kühn, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Anabela A. Valente, Catalysis Communications, 35 (2013) 40-44. DOI
• "Isomerization of alpha-pinene oxide in the presence of indenyl allyl dicarbonyl molybdenum(II) and tungsten(II) complexes", Sofia M. Bruno, Carla A. Gamelas, Ana C. Gomes, Anabela A. Valente, Martyn Pillinger, Carlos C. Romão, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Catalysis Communications, 23 (2012) 58-61. DOI

Catalytic studies of homo/heterogeneous (pre)catalysts for sulfoxidation

• "Oxidation of sulfides in aqueous media catalyzed by pyrazole-oxidoperoxido-molybdenum(VI) complexes", Sofia M. Bruno, Tatiana R. Amarante, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Martyn Pillinger, Anabela A.Valente, Isabel S.Gonçalves, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 511 (2020) 119814-119819. DOI

Catalytic studies of homo/heterogeneous (pre)catalysts for olefin epoxidation

Homogeneous (pre)catalysts