Invited Communications
1. 29-30 May 2008-1st Italian Astrobiology Society Workshop, Centro Convegni S. Agostino-Cortona Italy. R. Saladino “Advances in prebiotic chemistry: The System Chemistry”.
2. 20-25 July 2008-ADHOC 2008 10th International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous catalytic Oxidations-San Servolo-Venice Italy R. Saladino “Production of maleic anhydride from cellulose wastes by activation of hydrogen peroxide with heterogeneous catalysts”.
3. August 24-29th 2008-15th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Florence Italy. R. Saladino “Synthesis of nucleic acid components”.
4. September 3-5th 2008- Origin of Life and Life in Space. Meeting of European Space Agengy (ESA), Florence Italy. R. Saladino “Origin of informational molecules”.
5. October 7-10th 2008- Chembiogenesis 2008 Maratea, Italy. R. Saladino Advances in the prebiotic chemistry of nucleic acids”.
6. May 18-20th 2009- MARCO POLO-International Symposium Marco Polo and other small body sample return missions-Universitè Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Paris France “The role of non terrestrial material on the prebiotic synthesis of biomolecules”.
7. June 23-25th 2010-Center for Chemical Evolution Georgia Institute of technology , Atlanta (USA)-R. Saladino “Recent advances in the prebiotic chemistry of formamide/mineral systems”
8. 18-20 April 2011-Observatoire de Paris-CIAS (France). Astrobiology in the Early Solar System. R. Saladino “Photochemical synthesis of citric acid cycle intermediates based on titanium dioxide”
9. July 3-8th 2011- Chair of the ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Le Corum, Montpellier France.
10. 10-13 December 2011-Joint Institute for Nuclear Research-Dubna (Moscow) Russia-Round Table Italia-Russia (Astrobiology: New Ideas and Research Trends) R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry of Formamide”.
11. 1-2 July 2012-European Week of Astronomy and Space Science EWASS-Rome (Italy) R. Saladino “Role of non-terrestrial minerals in the prebiotic synthesis of biomolecules”.
12. 13-14th March 2013, IBMP Moscow (Russian) Life sciences in space for Earth, Search new directions for cooperation-R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry in Meteorites”.
13. 23th April 2013, Ist Symposium on Therapeutic potential of redox active nanoparticles and natural compounds-University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy – R. Saladino “Application of nanotechnology catalysis in the synthesis of redox active natural compounds”.
14. 16-17th January 2013, International Symposium on Astrobiological and Cosmochemical Implications of MarcoPolo-R Sampling of a Primitive Asteroids-Barcelona (Spain) R. Saladino “Prebiotic chemistry in carbonaceous chondrides”.
15. 14-15th January 2014, NIS Conference Biomolecules on surfaces: from abiotic polymerization to biosensors-Turin (Italy) R. Saladino “The role of minerals in formamide prebiotic chemistry”.
16. 22-23th June, 2015-Dubna (Russia). 2nd meeting of the PAC for Condensed Matter Physics. Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Michail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, *Ernesto Di Mauro “First evidence on the role of 11B-boron irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules”.
17. 28-29th January, 2016-Dubna (Russia). 3nd meeting of the PAC for Condensed Matter Physics. Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Michail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, *Ernesto Di Mauro “Role of irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules. A general overview”.
18. 10-11th March, 2016-Firenze, 1st Italian Workshop on Astrochemistry-Astronomical Complex Organic Molecules in different Environments- R. Saladino “Chemical gardens: the first evidence of a spontaneous catalytic conpartmentalization process in prebiotic chemistry”.
19. 21-26th, 2016-Bormio (Italy) XIII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie- R Saladino “Role of proton and 11B-irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules”.
20. 1 marzo , 2016 - Circular Economy: una nuova strada per lo sviluppo. Porta Futuro Roma. Green chemistry, Bio e nano tecnologie per l’ambiente.
21. 18-20 Settembre, 2016-Scuola di Astrofisica F. Lucchin (Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena) “Prebiotic Chemistry”.
22. June 28th-30th 2017, Aboca (San Sepolcro, Arezzo) 2nd MS-NatMedDay “A combined GC-MS/31P NMR approach for the analysis of polyphenols in natural extracts: the case of laccase mediated enhancement of the antioxidant activity of propolis and poplar bud exudates”.
23. June 7th 2018-ESRIN Frascati (Roma). ESA/ASI Workshop Space Rider, the European Return Ticket to Space. The Meteorite Astro-Life project.
24. May 10-12th 2018-University of Genova (Italy) Festival del Mare “Il ruolo dell’acqua nell’origine della vita”.
25. July 10th 2018-Casa Dell’Energia e dell’Ambiente (Milano)-Global Compact Network Italia “Il contributo dell’Università della Tuscia alla Economia Circolare”.
26. October 24th-25th 2018, ICTP-Trieste ESOF2020.
27. 23th May 2019, Giornata Nazionale della Bioeconomia, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), “La valorizzazione della ligninanella filiera della bioraffineria: Cosmaceutica e Bioplastiche”.
28. July 1-5th 2019 French-Mexican Advanced School on the Origins and Evolution of Life, Sorbonne University (Paris, France), “Meteoric Prebiotic Chemistry”.
General Communications
1. 16-20 Settembre 1991- X Convegno Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Farmaceutica della S. C. I., Siena Italy. R. Saladino, M. Botta, D. Lamba, R. Nicoletti "Riduzione stereoselettiva di chetosolfossidi nella sintesi di antivirali: uno studio di modeling".
2. 18-22 Settembre 1994- XXII National Scentific Meeting of Organic Chemistry, Viareggio Italy. "E. Mincione, R. Saladino, C. Crestini, R. Bernini "Chimica degli acidi nucleici: nuove metodiche di sintesi e modificazione degli acidi nucleici e dei loro componenti via ossifunzionalizzaziono chemo e regio selettive".
3. 25-27 Gennaio 1995- III National Meeting of Biorganic Chemistry, Bologna Italy. R. Saladino, E. Mincione, C. Crestini, E. di Mauro, R. Negri, G. Costanzo "Studio sul meccanismo di degradazione con la formammide dei nucleosidi purinici e pirimidinici".
4. 16-18 Aprile 1996- SiA Conference London, England. E. di Mauro, G. Costanzo, R. Negri, C. Crestini, R. Saladino, E. Mincione " One lane chemical DNA sequencing by amides".
5. 1-5 Settembre 1999- XXVI Convegno nazionale della divisione di chimica organica, Taormina (CT) Italia. R. Saladino, V. Neri, P. Carlucci, M. V. Orsale, E. Mincione “Ossidazione selettiva di molecole naturali a struttura aromatica tramite nuovi catalizzatori del renio environmentally benign basati sulla eterogeneizzazione del metilreniotriossido (MeReO3)”.
6. 4-9 Giugno 2000- XX Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana, Rimini, Italia. R. Bernini, P. Bovicelli, E. Mincione, R. Saladino “Nuove metodologie ossidative per la funzionalizzazione e la valorizzazione di molecole naturali fenoliche presenti nei reflui agroindustriali”.
7. 25-28 Febbraio 2001- 4° Convegno del Consorzio INCA, Santa Margherita Ligure, Genova, Italia. E. Mincione, R. Saladino “Catalisi Ossidativa Ambientale per la Valorizzazione di Reflui Agroindustriali”.
8. 9-11 Aprile 2001- Eso/AstroBiologia nel Nuovo Millennio ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), S. Agata sue due Golfi (NA) Italia, R. Saladino “Una nuova sintesi prebiotica delle purine e pirimidine dalla formamide: implicazioni per l’origine della vita”
9. 16-20 Settembre 2002- XXVIII Convegno nazionale della divisione di chimica organica, Roma, Italia. R. Saladino, E. Mincione, V. Neri, F. Romani “Metodiche sintetiche innovative per la sintesi di chinoni biologicamente attivi con impiego di nuovi catalizzatori eterogenei del renio”.
10. 3-5 Giugno 2002-Associazione Genetica Italiana, Scuola di Cortona, Cortona, Italia. R. Saladino “Sintesi prebiotica dei nucleotidi: fatti, modello congetture”.
11. 15-17 Luglio 2002-XXI Convegno TUMA, Urbino, Italia. R. Saladino, O.A. Attanasi, P. Filippone, E. Mincione, V. Neri “Ruolo di nuovi catalizzatori eterogenei del renio nella chimica dei derivati cardanolici”.
12. 1-5 Agosto 2002- XXIII International Symposium on the chemistry of Natural Substances, Florence, Italy. R. Saladino, R. Bernini, E. Mincione “Recent advances in the application of methyl rhenium trioxide based catalyst systems for the selective oxidation of natural products”.
13. 14 Febbraio 2003-Giornata sulle sostanze organiche naturali, Roma, Italia. R. Saladino “Dalla formammide agli acidi nucleici: implicazioni per l’origine della vita”.
14. 20-21 Febbraio 2003- 2° Italian Meeting on Lignin Chemistry (ITALIC 2), Como, Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini “MTO , a new catalyst for the oxidation of lignin and lignin model compounds”.
15. 6 Giugno 2003-Wood Chemistry Day, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. R. Saladino, C. Crestini “Methyltrioxorhenium: A New Catalyst for the Activation of Hydrogen peroxide to the Oxidation of Lignin and Lignin Model Compounds”.
16. June 9-12, 2003-12th International Symposium on wood and Pulping Chemistry, pp 105-108 Madison, USA. Claudia Crestini Raffaele Saladino “Methyltrioxorhenium: a new catalyst for the activation of hydrogen peroxide to the oxidation of lignin and lignin model compounds.”
17. 22-27 Giugno 2003-XXI Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana, Torino, Italy. R. Saladino, V. Neri, C. Fiani, C. Crestini “Selective oxidation of lignans, neolignans, and lignins by the catalytic systems Methyl Rhenium Trioxides (MTO)/H2O2”.
18. 12-14 Dicembre 2003- COST D27 3rd Management Committee Meeting, Collegium Budapest, Hungary. R. Saladino “Novel catalysed pre-biotic synthesis of purine and pyrimidine bases and acyclonucleosides”.
19. 17 Maggio 2004-Polo Scientifico Università degli studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Chimica Organica Ugo Schiff . Raffaele Saladino “Il ruolo della catalisi ossidativi nella sintesi di lignani biologicamente attivi”.
20. 24 June 2004-Twelfth FECHEM Conference on Heterocycles in Bio-organic Chemistry, Siena, Italy. Raffaele Saladino “A novel synthesis of bioactive lignans by the methyltrioxorhenium/H2O2 system”.
21. 30 September 2004-3rd Workshop of the COST Chemistry Action D27, Prebiotic Chemistry and early evolution. G. Costanzo, F. Ciciriello, C. Crestini, R. Saladino, E. Di Mauro “Formamide syntheses and degradation of nucleic acids precursors in prebiotic conditions”
22. 1-2 April 2005- Origin of Life and primordial evolution- Convento di S. Agostino, Cortona (Firenze) R. Saladino “Synthesis of nucleic acid components in the presence of cosmic dust analogues”
23. June 23-24 2005-ITALIC 3 Università dell’Aquila, Italia “Wood Derivatives and Agroindustrial Waste Valorisation” R. Saladino, T. Pagliaccia, C. Fiani, V. Neri, G. Botta, D.S. Argyropoulos “Cellulose Waste Valorisation by Novel Heterogeneous Methylrhenium Trioxide Catalysts”
24. June 23-24 2005-ITALIC 3 Università dell’Aquila, Italia “Wood Derivatives and Agroindustrial Waste Valorisation” C. Sadun, R. Caminiti, P. Ballirano, R. Saladino “The use of energy dispersive X-ray diffraction for the study of samples with different lignin content”
25. June 17 2005-Workshop XVI Convegno di Chimica Industriale “Cosa vuol dire catalisi in Italia:mercato, bisogni e prospettive” Verbania-Pallanza (MI)-R. Saladino “Nuove prospettive per l’impiego del renio in processi di trasformazione che richiedono l’attivazione del perossido di idrogeno”
26. October 26th-28th 2005-National Workshop on Astrobiology, Capri(NA) Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “Origin of informational polymers: differenzial stability of 3’- and 5’-phosphoetsr bonds in monomers and oligomers, both ribo and deoxyribo”
27. October 26th-28th 2005-National Workshop on Astrobiology, Capri(NA) Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “Origin of informational polymers: synthesis of nucleic acid precursors from formamide under prebiotic conditions”
28. July 18th-22th, 2005-ISHHC-XII International Symposium on Reactions Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysis, Florence Italy. M. Crucianelli, F. De Angelis, V. Neri, R. Saladino “Highly efficient and selective MTO-based oxidative catalytic system: hydrocarbon derivatives C-H insertion reactions and a-aminoacids side-chain oxidations”.
29. December 12th-13th, 2005-International meeting of ASI. J. R. Brucato, L. Colangeli, E. Di Mauro, E. Gallori, P. Palumbo, R. Saladino, G. Strazzulla “Prebiotic Chemistry in Europa”.
30. May 11th-12th, 2006-Working Group D27 Meeting, Paris (France). R. Saladino and E. DiMauro “The role of phosphates on the prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids from formamide.”
31. September 10th-15th, 2006-XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana SCI 2006, Florence Italy. C. Crestini, R. Saladino “Recenti applicazioni di ossidi del renio nella modificazione ossidativi di polimeri naturali”.
32. October 16th-18th, 2006-6th European Workshop on Astrobiology Lyon, France. J.R. Brucato, G. Strazzulla, G.A. Baratta, R. Saladino, E. DiMauro “Role of cosmic dust analogues in prebiotic chemistry”.
33. Novembre 1-4th, 2006- The Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society SERMACS 2006, Augusta USA. R. Saladino “Origins of RNA: prebiotic syntheses from formamide”.
34. March 5th, 2007-Giornata sulle Biotecnologie bianche e biorisorse vegetali: prospettive di ricerca e applicazioni, R. Raladino “Utilizzazione e funzionalizzazione emicellulose”, CNR-Aula Marconi, p.le Aldo Moro, 7, Roma, Italy.
35. March 29-31th, 2007- II° Convegno Nazionale della ISSBB (Italian Society for Space Biomedicine and Biotechnology)-R. Saladino, G. Costanzo, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, E. Di Mauro “Advances in the MoMa project WP 1B111. Formamide As Main Building Block In The Origin Of Life”, Centro Convegni dell’ Hotel Palace, Bari, Italy.
36. 10-14 Settembre 2007-XXXI Convegno Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Organica della S.C.I. Rende, Catanzaro Italia. R. Saladino, M. Crucianelli, F. De Angelis “Impiego del sistema Metiltriossorenio/H2O2 in condizioni di catalisi omogenea ed eterogenea ad alta efficienza e selettività, nello studio di reazioni di funzionalizzazione ossidativa di alcani e derivati”.
37. 16-20th August 2009-238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC USA R. Saladino and M. Crucianelli “Toward a Novel approach for oxidative desulfurization (ODS) of diesel fuel: an efficient oxidation of thiophene derivatives with homogeneous and heterogeneous MTO/H2O2 systems”.
38. 28 September-1 October 2009-IX Congresso Nazionale di Planetologia, Amalfi (Sa) R. Saladino “On the role of non terrestrial minerals in the prebiotic chemistry of nucleic acid components”
39. 26-28 May 2010-3rd Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society, Duino-Aurisina, Trieste. R. Saladino “The role of photochemistry in the prebiotic synthesis of the metabolic apparatus from formamide and TiO2”
40. 25-27 October 2012- VI Meeting ISSBB, Brindisi (LE)-R. Saladino “Modelli prebiotici basati sulla formammide e minerali non terrestri”
41. 16-17th January 2013, IEC, Barcelona (Spain) Astrobiological and cosmochemical implications of MarcoPolo-R sampling of a primitive asteroid-R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry in carbonaceous chondrites”
42. 4-5 Aprile 2013-Astrobiologia, Elettronica e Biomedicina Spaziale-Firenze/Livorno-Dipartimento di Astronomia Università di Firenze- R Saladino “Sintesi prebiotica delle Basi Nucleiche”.
43. 5th Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society “Life in a Cosmic Context”, 15-17 September 2015, Trieste, Italy (https://www.ict.inaf.it/indico/event/106/). R. Saladino, S. Pino, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “The route from formamide to RNA and metabolism. Part 1”.
44. 5th Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society “Life in a Cosmic Context”, 15-17 September 2015, Trieste, Italy (https://www.ict.inaf.it/indico/event/106/). R. Saladino, S. Pino, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “The route from formamide to RNA and metabolism. Part 2”.
45. 21-25th November 2016- ECLA, European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, Madrid, Spain “Formation of biomolecules by aqueous alteration of carbonaceous chondrites in presence of formamide”.
46. 3-7th April 2017-Early Earth and ExoEarths: origin and evolution of life, Warsaw (Poland). “The mechanism of prebiotic meteorite-catalyzed nucleosides formation under proton irradiation”.
47. 15th February 2018- Explora. Astrobiology and origin of Life” Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome Italy.
1. 29-30 May 2008-1st Italian Astrobiology Society Workshop, Centro Convegni S. Agostino-Cortona Italy. R. Saladino “Advances in prebiotic chemistry: The System Chemistry”.
2. 20-25 July 2008-ADHOC 2008 10th International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous catalytic Oxidations-San Servolo-Venice Italy R. Saladino “Production of maleic anhydride from cellulose wastes by activation of hydrogen peroxide with heterogeneous catalysts”.
3. August 24-29th 2008-15th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Florence Italy. R. Saladino “Synthesis of nucleic acid components”.
4. September 3-5th 2008- Origin of Life and Life in Space. Meeting of European Space Agengy (ESA), Florence Italy. R. Saladino “Origin of informational molecules”.
5. October 7-10th 2008- Chembiogenesis 2008 Maratea, Italy. R. Saladino Advances in the prebiotic chemistry of nucleic acids”.
6. May 18-20th 2009- MARCO POLO-International Symposium Marco Polo and other small body sample return missions-Universitè Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Paris France “The role of non terrestrial material on the prebiotic synthesis of biomolecules”.
7. June 23-25th 2010-Center for Chemical Evolution Georgia Institute of technology , Atlanta (USA)-R. Saladino “Recent advances in the prebiotic chemistry of formamide/mineral systems”
8. 18-20 April 2011-Observatoire de Paris-CIAS (France). Astrobiology in the Early Solar System. R. Saladino “Photochemical synthesis of citric acid cycle intermediates based on titanium dioxide”
9. July 3-8th 2011- Chair of the ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Le Corum, Montpellier France.
10. 10-13 December 2011-Joint Institute for Nuclear Research-Dubna (Moscow) Russia-Round Table Italia-Russia (Astrobiology: New Ideas and Research Trends) R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry of Formamide”.
11. 1-2 July 2012-European Week of Astronomy and Space Science EWASS-Rome (Italy) R. Saladino “Role of non-terrestrial minerals in the prebiotic synthesis of biomolecules”.
12. 13-14th March 2013, IBMP Moscow (Russian) Life sciences in space for Earth, Search new directions for cooperation-R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry in Meteorites”.
13. 23th April 2013, Ist Symposium on Therapeutic potential of redox active nanoparticles and natural compounds-University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy – R. Saladino “Application of nanotechnology catalysis in the synthesis of redox active natural compounds”.
14. 16-17th January 2013, International Symposium on Astrobiological and Cosmochemical Implications of MarcoPolo-R Sampling of a Primitive Asteroids-Barcelona (Spain) R. Saladino “Prebiotic chemistry in carbonaceous chondrides”.
15. 14-15th January 2014, NIS Conference Biomolecules on surfaces: from abiotic polymerization to biosensors-Turin (Italy) R. Saladino “The role of minerals in formamide prebiotic chemistry”.
16. 22-23th June, 2015-Dubna (Russia). 2nd meeting of the PAC for Condensed Matter Physics. Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Michail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, *Ernesto Di Mauro “First evidence on the role of 11B-boron irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules”.
17. 28-29th January, 2016-Dubna (Russia). 3nd meeting of the PAC for Condensed Matter Physics. Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Michail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, *Ernesto Di Mauro “Role of irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules. A general overview”.
18. 10-11th March, 2016-Firenze, 1st Italian Workshop on Astrochemistry-Astronomical Complex Organic Molecules in different Environments- R. Saladino “Chemical gardens: the first evidence of a spontaneous catalytic conpartmentalization process in prebiotic chemistry”.
19. 21-26th, 2016-Bormio (Italy) XIII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie- R Saladino “Role of proton and 11B-irradiation of meteorites and formamide in the origin of biomolecules”.
20. 1 marzo , 2016 - Circular Economy: una nuova strada per lo sviluppo. Porta Futuro Roma. Green chemistry, Bio e nano tecnologie per l’ambiente.
21. 18-20 Settembre, 2016-Scuola di Astrofisica F. Lucchin (Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena) “Prebiotic Chemistry”.
22. June 28th-30th 2017, Aboca (San Sepolcro, Arezzo) 2nd MS-NatMedDay “A combined GC-MS/31P NMR approach for the analysis of polyphenols in natural extracts: the case of laccase mediated enhancement of the antioxidant activity of propolis and poplar bud exudates”.
23. June 7th 2018-ESRIN Frascati (Roma). ESA/ASI Workshop Space Rider, the European Return Ticket to Space. The Meteorite Astro-Life project.
24. May 10-12th 2018-University of Genova (Italy) Festival del Mare “Il ruolo dell’acqua nell’origine della vita”.
25. July 10th 2018-Casa Dell’Energia e dell’Ambiente (Milano)-Global Compact Network Italia “Il contributo dell’Università della Tuscia alla Economia Circolare”.
26. October 24th-25th 2018, ICTP-Trieste ESOF2020.
27. 23th May 2019, Giornata Nazionale della Bioeconomia, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), “La valorizzazione della ligninanella filiera della bioraffineria: Cosmaceutica e Bioplastiche”.
28. July 1-5th 2019 French-Mexican Advanced School on the Origins and Evolution of Life, Sorbonne University (Paris, France), “Meteoric Prebiotic Chemistry”.
General Communications
1. 16-20 Settembre 1991- X Convegno Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Farmaceutica della S. C. I., Siena Italy. R. Saladino, M. Botta, D. Lamba, R. Nicoletti "Riduzione stereoselettiva di chetosolfossidi nella sintesi di antivirali: uno studio di modeling".
2. 18-22 Settembre 1994- XXII National Scentific Meeting of Organic Chemistry, Viareggio Italy. "E. Mincione, R. Saladino, C. Crestini, R. Bernini "Chimica degli acidi nucleici: nuove metodiche di sintesi e modificazione degli acidi nucleici e dei loro componenti via ossifunzionalizzaziono chemo e regio selettive".
3. 25-27 Gennaio 1995- III National Meeting of Biorganic Chemistry, Bologna Italy. R. Saladino, E. Mincione, C. Crestini, E. di Mauro, R. Negri, G. Costanzo "Studio sul meccanismo di degradazione con la formammide dei nucleosidi purinici e pirimidinici".
4. 16-18 Aprile 1996- SiA Conference London, England. E. di Mauro, G. Costanzo, R. Negri, C. Crestini, R. Saladino, E. Mincione " One lane chemical DNA sequencing by amides".
5. 1-5 Settembre 1999- XXVI Convegno nazionale della divisione di chimica organica, Taormina (CT) Italia. R. Saladino, V. Neri, P. Carlucci, M. V. Orsale, E. Mincione “Ossidazione selettiva di molecole naturali a struttura aromatica tramite nuovi catalizzatori del renio environmentally benign basati sulla eterogeneizzazione del metilreniotriossido (MeReO3)”.
6. 4-9 Giugno 2000- XX Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana, Rimini, Italia. R. Bernini, P. Bovicelli, E. Mincione, R. Saladino “Nuove metodologie ossidative per la funzionalizzazione e la valorizzazione di molecole naturali fenoliche presenti nei reflui agroindustriali”.
7. 25-28 Febbraio 2001- 4° Convegno del Consorzio INCA, Santa Margherita Ligure, Genova, Italia. E. Mincione, R. Saladino “Catalisi Ossidativa Ambientale per la Valorizzazione di Reflui Agroindustriali”.
8. 9-11 Aprile 2001- Eso/AstroBiologia nel Nuovo Millennio ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), S. Agata sue due Golfi (NA) Italia, R. Saladino “Una nuova sintesi prebiotica delle purine e pirimidine dalla formamide: implicazioni per l’origine della vita”
9. 16-20 Settembre 2002- XXVIII Convegno nazionale della divisione di chimica organica, Roma, Italia. R. Saladino, E. Mincione, V. Neri, F. Romani “Metodiche sintetiche innovative per la sintesi di chinoni biologicamente attivi con impiego di nuovi catalizzatori eterogenei del renio”.
10. 3-5 Giugno 2002-Associazione Genetica Italiana, Scuola di Cortona, Cortona, Italia. R. Saladino “Sintesi prebiotica dei nucleotidi: fatti, modello congetture”.
11. 15-17 Luglio 2002-XXI Convegno TUMA, Urbino, Italia. R. Saladino, O.A. Attanasi, P. Filippone, E. Mincione, V. Neri “Ruolo di nuovi catalizzatori eterogenei del renio nella chimica dei derivati cardanolici”.
12. 1-5 Agosto 2002- XXIII International Symposium on the chemistry of Natural Substances, Florence, Italy. R. Saladino, R. Bernini, E. Mincione “Recent advances in the application of methyl rhenium trioxide based catalyst systems for the selective oxidation of natural products”.
13. 14 Febbraio 2003-Giornata sulle sostanze organiche naturali, Roma, Italia. R. Saladino “Dalla formammide agli acidi nucleici: implicazioni per l’origine della vita”.
14. 20-21 Febbraio 2003- 2° Italian Meeting on Lignin Chemistry (ITALIC 2), Como, Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini “MTO , a new catalyst for the oxidation of lignin and lignin model compounds”.
15. 6 Giugno 2003-Wood Chemistry Day, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. R. Saladino, C. Crestini “Methyltrioxorhenium: A New Catalyst for the Activation of Hydrogen peroxide to the Oxidation of Lignin and Lignin Model Compounds”.
16. June 9-12, 2003-12th International Symposium on wood and Pulping Chemistry, pp 105-108 Madison, USA. Claudia Crestini Raffaele Saladino “Methyltrioxorhenium: a new catalyst for the activation of hydrogen peroxide to the oxidation of lignin and lignin model compounds.”
17. 22-27 Giugno 2003-XXI Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana, Torino, Italy. R. Saladino, V. Neri, C. Fiani, C. Crestini “Selective oxidation of lignans, neolignans, and lignins by the catalytic systems Methyl Rhenium Trioxides (MTO)/H2O2”.
18. 12-14 Dicembre 2003- COST D27 3rd Management Committee Meeting, Collegium Budapest, Hungary. R. Saladino “Novel catalysed pre-biotic synthesis of purine and pyrimidine bases and acyclonucleosides”.
19. 17 Maggio 2004-Polo Scientifico Università degli studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Chimica Organica Ugo Schiff . Raffaele Saladino “Il ruolo della catalisi ossidativi nella sintesi di lignani biologicamente attivi”.
20. 24 June 2004-Twelfth FECHEM Conference on Heterocycles in Bio-organic Chemistry, Siena, Italy. Raffaele Saladino “A novel synthesis of bioactive lignans by the methyltrioxorhenium/H2O2 system”.
21. 30 September 2004-3rd Workshop of the COST Chemistry Action D27, Prebiotic Chemistry and early evolution. G. Costanzo, F. Ciciriello, C. Crestini, R. Saladino, E. Di Mauro “Formamide syntheses and degradation of nucleic acids precursors in prebiotic conditions”
22. 1-2 April 2005- Origin of Life and primordial evolution- Convento di S. Agostino, Cortona (Firenze) R. Saladino “Synthesis of nucleic acid components in the presence of cosmic dust analogues”
23. June 23-24 2005-ITALIC 3 Università dell’Aquila, Italia “Wood Derivatives and Agroindustrial Waste Valorisation” R. Saladino, T. Pagliaccia, C. Fiani, V. Neri, G. Botta, D.S. Argyropoulos “Cellulose Waste Valorisation by Novel Heterogeneous Methylrhenium Trioxide Catalysts”
24. June 23-24 2005-ITALIC 3 Università dell’Aquila, Italia “Wood Derivatives and Agroindustrial Waste Valorisation” C. Sadun, R. Caminiti, P. Ballirano, R. Saladino “The use of energy dispersive X-ray diffraction for the study of samples with different lignin content”
25. June 17 2005-Workshop XVI Convegno di Chimica Industriale “Cosa vuol dire catalisi in Italia:mercato, bisogni e prospettive” Verbania-Pallanza (MI)-R. Saladino “Nuove prospettive per l’impiego del renio in processi di trasformazione che richiedono l’attivazione del perossido di idrogeno”
26. October 26th-28th 2005-National Workshop on Astrobiology, Capri(NA) Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “Origin of informational polymers: differenzial stability of 3’- and 5’-phosphoetsr bonds in monomers and oligomers, both ribo and deoxyribo”
27. October 26th-28th 2005-National Workshop on Astrobiology, Capri(NA) Italy. R. Saladino, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “Origin of informational polymers: synthesis of nucleic acid precursors from formamide under prebiotic conditions”
28. July 18th-22th, 2005-ISHHC-XII International Symposium on Reactions Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysis, Florence Italy. M. Crucianelli, F. De Angelis, V. Neri, R. Saladino “Highly efficient and selective MTO-based oxidative catalytic system: hydrocarbon derivatives C-H insertion reactions and a-aminoacids side-chain oxidations”.
29. December 12th-13th, 2005-International meeting of ASI. J. R. Brucato, L. Colangeli, E. Di Mauro, E. Gallori, P. Palumbo, R. Saladino, G. Strazzulla “Prebiotic Chemistry in Europa”.
30. May 11th-12th, 2006-Working Group D27 Meeting, Paris (France). R. Saladino and E. DiMauro “The role of phosphates on the prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids from formamide.”
31. September 10th-15th, 2006-XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana SCI 2006, Florence Italy. C. Crestini, R. Saladino “Recenti applicazioni di ossidi del renio nella modificazione ossidativi di polimeri naturali”.
32. October 16th-18th, 2006-6th European Workshop on Astrobiology Lyon, France. J.R. Brucato, G. Strazzulla, G.A. Baratta, R. Saladino, E. DiMauro “Role of cosmic dust analogues in prebiotic chemistry”.
33. Novembre 1-4th, 2006- The Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society SERMACS 2006, Augusta USA. R. Saladino “Origins of RNA: prebiotic syntheses from formamide”.
34. March 5th, 2007-Giornata sulle Biotecnologie bianche e biorisorse vegetali: prospettive di ricerca e applicazioni, R. Raladino “Utilizzazione e funzionalizzazione emicellulose”, CNR-Aula Marconi, p.le Aldo Moro, 7, Roma, Italy.
35. March 29-31th, 2007- II° Convegno Nazionale della ISSBB (Italian Society for Space Biomedicine and Biotechnology)-R. Saladino, G. Costanzo, C. Crestini, F. Ciciriello, E. Di Mauro “Advances in the MoMa project WP 1B111. Formamide As Main Building Block In The Origin Of Life”, Centro Convegni dell’ Hotel Palace, Bari, Italy.
36. 10-14 Settembre 2007-XXXI Convegno Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Organica della S.C.I. Rende, Catanzaro Italia. R. Saladino, M. Crucianelli, F. De Angelis “Impiego del sistema Metiltriossorenio/H2O2 in condizioni di catalisi omogenea ed eterogenea ad alta efficienza e selettività, nello studio di reazioni di funzionalizzazione ossidativa di alcani e derivati”.
37. 16-20th August 2009-238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC USA R. Saladino and M. Crucianelli “Toward a Novel approach for oxidative desulfurization (ODS) of diesel fuel: an efficient oxidation of thiophene derivatives with homogeneous and heterogeneous MTO/H2O2 systems”.
38. 28 September-1 October 2009-IX Congresso Nazionale di Planetologia, Amalfi (Sa) R. Saladino “On the role of non terrestrial minerals in the prebiotic chemistry of nucleic acid components”
39. 26-28 May 2010-3rd Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society, Duino-Aurisina, Trieste. R. Saladino “The role of photochemistry in the prebiotic synthesis of the metabolic apparatus from formamide and TiO2”
40. 25-27 October 2012- VI Meeting ISSBB, Brindisi (LE)-R. Saladino “Modelli prebiotici basati sulla formammide e minerali non terrestri”
41. 16-17th January 2013, IEC, Barcelona (Spain) Astrobiological and cosmochemical implications of MarcoPolo-R sampling of a primitive asteroid-R. Saladino “Prebiotic Chemistry in carbonaceous chondrites”
42. 4-5 Aprile 2013-Astrobiologia, Elettronica e Biomedicina Spaziale-Firenze/Livorno-Dipartimento di Astronomia Università di Firenze- R Saladino “Sintesi prebiotica delle Basi Nucleiche”.
43. 5th Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society “Life in a Cosmic Context”, 15-17 September 2015, Trieste, Italy (https://www.ict.inaf.it/indico/event/106/). R. Saladino, S. Pino, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “The route from formamide to RNA and metabolism. Part 1”.
44. 5th Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society “Life in a Cosmic Context”, 15-17 September 2015, Trieste, Italy (https://www.ict.inaf.it/indico/event/106/). R. Saladino, S. Pino, G. Costanzo, E. Di Mauro “The route from formamide to RNA and metabolism. Part 2”.
45. 21-25th November 2016- ECLA, European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, Madrid, Spain “Formation of biomolecules by aqueous alteration of carbonaceous chondrites in presence of formamide”.
46. 3-7th April 2017-Early Earth and ExoEarths: origin and evolution of life, Warsaw (Poland). “The mechanism of prebiotic meteorite-catalyzed nucleosides formation under proton irradiation”.
47. 15th February 2018- Explora. Astrobiology and origin of Life” Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome Italy.
