One of the topics of our research is to analyze the reactivity of olefin metathesis reaction, mainly catalyzed by earth-abundant metals, such as iron and vanadium, to pursue catalytic systems based on these elements to achieve more environment-friendly, available, and affordable catalysts.

We scrutinize the potentiality of organometallic complexes of earth-abundant metals as catalysts of reactions to recycle carbon dioxide. The focus is to analyze if the live-abundant porphyrins of iron and manganese are able to catalyze the reaction of hydrogenation of carbon dioxide and the reaction of carbon dioxide with epoxides to generate cyclic carbamates.