Francesca BREVEGLIERI
ESR8: Optimization of Viedma Ripening
Host institution: ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich), Switzerland (ETH)
Supervisor: Prof Marco MAZZOTTI
Industrial toolbox research group: WP4 Hybrid Resolution
Individual project research objective: Methods for optimization and control of Viedma ripening.
Committee membership: Supervisory Board
Visits/Secondments: UM, USTRATH, SYNCOM
Background
She graduated in Industrial Pharmacy in October 2016 at the University of Ferrara. Thanks to the heterogeneous degree program, she learned the pharmacology, technology and chemistry of medicine as well as their production processes. In addition, she improved various kinds of skills, for example laboratory skills, and her ability in communicate with the costumers. During her internships in italian and german pharmacies she applied what she learned about the distribution and the preparation of drugs. To prepare her Master’s thesis, “Design, Synthesis, and SAR Study of New Inhibitors of MAGL, Endocannabinoid System’s Modulator Enzyme”, she focused on the organic synthesis of pyrazoles’ and imidazoles’ derivates with potential activity on the endocannabinoid system, that could lead to different therapeutic effects, among them analgesic and antitumoral effects.
Research Interests
She is interested in improvement of pharmaceutical therapy from different point of view. She worked to synthesize new pyrazoles’ and imidazoles’ derivates, that revealed a good in vitro inhibitory activity and could be developed for a pharmaceutical application in tumor and pain therapy. At the moment she is involved in the study of processes that allow the purification of different compounds, for example a pharmaceutical intermediate. In particular, the project is focused on the Viedma Ripening, that brings to the formation of enantiomeric pure crystals either from a racemic solution of a chiral conglomerate-forming compound or from a solution of an achiral compound forming chiral crystals. She intends to study and develop the potential of this phenomenon, which is currently limited by the compound’s requirement and the high variability in the experimental data.Publications A comprehensive list is available from Ryusei's personal web-site which is linked below.
Contact details
fbrevegl@ethz.ch
+41764800899
Host department webpage
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Dissemination
2020
Journal
Breveglieri, Francesca , Iaroslav Baglai, Michel Leeman, Willem L. Noorduin, Richard M. Kellogg and Marco Mazzotti (2020)Performance Analysis and Model-Free Design of Deracemization via Temperature Cycles
Organic Process Research & Development
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00266 Publication date (Web): 20 July 2020
2019
Conference presentations
Breveglieri, Francesca , B. Bodák, M. Mazzotti (2019)Deracemisation via temperature cycles: the effect of the initial and operating conditions
12th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE12), 15-19 September 2019, Florence, Italy
Breveglieri, Francesca , B. Bodák, M. Mazzotti (2019)
Role of racemisation kinetic in the deracemisation process via temperature cycles
BACG 50th Annual Conference Student Day, UCL, 8 July 2019
Journal
Breveglieri, Francesca , Marco Mazzotti (2019)Role of Racemization Kinetics in the Deracemization Process via Temperature Cycles
Crystal Growth & Design
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00410 Publication Date (Web): 18 April 2019
Poster
Breveglieri, Francesca , B. Bodák, M. Mazzotti (2019)Role of racemisation kinetic in the deracemisation process via temperature cycles
BACG 50th Annual Conference, London, 9-11 July 2019
2018
Journal
Breveglieri, Francesca , Giovanni Maria Maggioni, and Marco Mazzotti (2018)Deracemization of NMPA via Temperature Cycles
Crystal Growth and Design, 18 (3), pp 1873-1881
18 (3), pp 1873–1881, January 2018 [online]
Lecture
Breveglieri, Francesca , Brigitta Bodak (2018)Rate control separation processes in fine chemistry
Chemical and process engineer students at ETH Zurich
Poster
Breveglieri, Francesca , G.M. Maggioni, and M. Mazzotti (2018)Evaluation and optimization of solid-state deracemisation via temperature cycles
25th International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization (BIWIC), 6-7 September 2018, University of Rouen, France
2017
Poster
Breveglieri, Francesca , G.M. Maggioni, and M. Mazzotti. (2017)Solid state deracemisation of Imine derivatives via High pressure homogenisation and temperature cycles
48th BACG Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 27-30 June 2017 - winner of the runner up prize in the BACG2017 Poster Competition
Prizes
Breveglieri, Francesca (2017)Solid state deracemisation if Imine derivatives via High pressure homogenisation and temperature cycles
Runner up prize in Poster Competition (open only to contributions with a major experimental component), British Association of Crystal Growth (BACG 2017), University of Manchester, 27-30 June 2017