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  • 1994: MSc in Chemistry at the University of Milano, Italy
  • 1999: PhD in Chemical Science University of Milan, Italy
  • 1999-2000: Adjunct professor at Department of Chemistry University of Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2002-2008: Researcher at Department of Structural Chemistry, University of Milan Italy
  • 2009-2018: Dozent and group leader of Chemical Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland
  • 2018-2019: Associate professor (Assoziierter Professor) and group leader of Chemical Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland

 

  • Electron density and chemical bonding
  • Correlation between accurate electron density and material properties
  • Optical materials
  • High pressure solid state chemistry

Journal Article

Montisci, Fabio; Lanza, Arianna; Fisch, Martin; Sonneville, Camille; Geng, Yan; Decurtins, Silvio; Reber, Christian; Liu, Shi-Xia; Macchi, Piero (2023). High Pressure Behaviour of the Organic Semiconductor Salt (TTF-BTD)2I3. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(45), pp. 31410-31417. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/D3CP04220K

Poręba, Tomasz; Ernst, Michelle; Zimmer, Dominik; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola (2019). Pressure-Induced Polymerization and Electrical Conductivity of a Polyiodide. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 58(20), pp. 6625-6629. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.201901178

Wehinger, B.; Fiolka, Christoph; Lanza, Arianna; Scatena, Rebecca; Kubus, Mariusz; Grockowiak, A.; Coniglio, W. A.; Graf, D.; Skoulatos, M.; Chen, J.-H.; Gukelberger, J.; Casati, N.; Zaharko, O.; Macchi, Piero; Krämer, Karl; Tozer, S.; Mudry, C.; Normand, B.; Rüegg, Ch. (2018). Giant Pressure Dependence and Dimensionality Switching in a Metal-Organic Quantum Antiferromagnet. Physical review letters, 121(11), p. 117201. American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.117201

Ferretti, Francesco; Rimoldi, Martino; Ragaini, Fabio; Macchi, Piero (2018). Reaction of arylhydroxylamines with [Pd(Neoc)(NO 3 ) 2 ] (Neoc = neocuproine). Non-innocent behavior of the nitrate anion. Inorganica chimica acta, 470, pp. 284-289. Elsevier Sequoia 10.1016/j.ica.2017.05.014

Macchi, Piero; Ragaini, Fabio; Casati, Nicola; Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata; Sironi, Angelo (2018). Experimental and theoretical electron density of intermediates in palladium-phenanthroline catalyzed carbonylation of amines and reductive carbonylation of nitroarenes. Journal of computational chemistry, 39(10), pp. 581-586. Wiley 10.1002/jcc.25115

Fugel, Malte; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Hupf, Emanuel; Overgaard, Jacob; Hathwar, Venkatesha R.; Macchi, Piero; Turner, Michael J.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Dolomanov, Oleg V.; Puschmann, Horst; Iversen, Bo B.; Bürgi, Hans-Beat; Grabowsky, Simon (2018). Probing the accuracy and precision of Hirshfeld atom refinement with HARt interfaced with Olex2. IUCrJ, 5(1), pp. 32-44. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252517015548

Kubus, Mariusz; Lanza, Arianna; Scatena, Rebecca; Dos Santos, Leonardo H. R.; Wehinger, Björn; Casati, Nicola; Fiolka, Christoph; Keller, Lukas; Macchi, Piero; Rüegg, Christian; Krämer, Karl (2018). Quasi-2D Heisenberg Antiferromagnets [CuX(pyz) 2 ](BF 4 ) with X = Cl and Br. Inorganic chemistry, 57(9), pp. 4934-4943. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03150

Bürgi, Hans-Beat; Macchi, Piero (2018). Comments on `Hydrogen bonds in crystalline D -alanine: diffraction and spectroscopic evidence for differences between enantiomers'. IUCrJ, 5(5), pp. 654-657. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252518007406

Viganò, Marta; Ferretti, Francesco; Ragaini, Fabio; Macchi, Piero (2018). A chiral ligand accessible in one step: Synthesis of bis-((R)-(+)-bornyl)acenaphthenequinonediimine and of its zinc and nickel complexes. Inorganica chimica acta, 483, pp. 305-309. Elsevier Sequoia 10.1016/j.ica.2018.08.049

Genoni, Alessandro; Bučinský, Lukas; Claiser, Nicolas; Contreras-García, Julia; Dittrich, Birger; Dominiak, Paulina M.; Espinosa, Enrique; Gatti, Carlo; Giannozzi, Paolo; Gillet, Jean-Michel; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Macchi, Piero; Madsen, Anders Ø.; Massa, Lou; Matta, Chérif F.; Merz, Kenneth M.; Nakashima, Philip N. H.; Ott, Holger; Ryde, Ulf; Schwarz, Karlheinz; ... (2018). Quantum Crystallography: Current Developments and Future Perspectives. Chemistry - a European journal, 24(43), pp. 10881-10905. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201705952

Racioppi, S.; Della Pergola, R.; Colombo, V.; Sironi, A.; Macchi, Piero (2018). Electron Density Analysis of Metal Clusters with Semi-Interstitial Main Group Atoms. Chemical Bonding in [Co 6 X(CO) 16 ] − Species. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 122(22), pp. 5004-5015. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02690

Dittrich, B.; Fabbiani, F. P. A.; Henn, J.; Schmidt, M. U.; Macchi, Piero; Meindl, K.; Spackman, M. A. (2018). Azulene revisited: solid-state structure, invariom modeling and lattice-energy minimization of a classical example of disorder. Acta crystallographica Section B, 74(5), pp. 416-426. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520618010120

Hesterberg, Rolf; Macchi, Piero; Hulliger, Jürg (2018). Polarization, Inner and Outer Field, and Surface Charge Compensation of a Molecular Crystal. Crystal growth & design, 18(12), pp. 7460-7469. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01223

Montisci, Fabio; Lanza, Arianna; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero (2018). NO 2 ···NO 2 Contacts under Compression: Testing the Forces in Soft Donor–Acceptor Interactions. Crystal growth & design, 18(12), pp. 7579-7589. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01392

Della Pergola, Roberto; Sironi, Annalisa; Colombo, Valentina; Garlaschelli, Luigi; Racioppi, Stefano; Sironi, Angelo; Macchi, Piero (2017). Periodical trends in [Co 6 E(CO) 16 ]- clusters: Structural, synthetic and energy changes produced by substitution of P with As. Journal of organometallic chemistry, 849-850, pp. 130-136. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.05.041

Brambleby, Jamie; Manson, Jamie L.; Goddard, Paul A.; Stone, Matthew B.; Johnson, Roger D.; Manuel, Pascal; Villa, Jacqueline A.; Brown, Craig M.; Lu, Helen; Chikara, Shalinee; Zapf, Vivien; Lapidus, Saul H.; Scatena, Rebecca; Macchi, Piero; Chen, Yu-sheng; Wu, Lai-Chin; Singleton, John (2017). Combining microscopic and macroscopic probes to untangle the single-ion anisotropy and exchange energies in an S = 1 quantum antiferromagnet. Physical review. B - condensed matter and materials physics, 95(13) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.134435

Genoni, Alessandro; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Meyer, Benjamin; Macchi, Piero (2017). Can X-ray constrained Hartree–Fock wavefunctions retrieve electron correlation? IUCrJ, 4(2), pp. 136-146. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252516019217

Macchi, Piero (2017). The future of topological analysis in experimental charge-density research. Acta crystallographica Section B, 73(3), pp. 330-336. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520617006989

Casati, Nicola; Genoni, Alessandro; Meyer, Benjamin; Krawczuk, Anna; Macchi, Piero (2017). Exploring charge density analysis in crystals at high pressure: data collection, data analysis and advanced modelling. Acta crystallographica Section B, 73(4), pp. 584-597. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520617008356

Meixner, Petra; Batke, Kilian; Fischer, Andreas; Schmitz, Dominik; Eickerling, Georg; Kalter, Marcel; Ruhland, Klaus; Eichele, Klaus; Barquera-Lozada, José E.; Casati, Nicola P. M.; Montisci, Fabio; Macchi, Piero; Scherer, Wolfgang (2017). J (Si,H) Coupling Constants of Activated Si–H Bonds. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 121(38), pp. 7219-7235. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05830

Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Lanza, Arianna; Barton, Alyssa M.; Brambleby, Jamie; Blackmore, William J. A.; Goddard, Paul A.; Xiao, Fan; Williams, Robert C.; Lancaster, Tom; Pratt, Francis L.; Blundell, Stephen J.; Singleton, John; Manson, Jamie L.; Macchi, Piero (2016). Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Analysis of Copper Pyrazine Nitrate Quasi-Low-Dimensional Quantum Magnets. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(7), pp. 2280-2291. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jacs.5b12817

Casati, Nicola; Kleppe, Annette; Jephcoat, Andrew P.; Macchi, Piero (2016). Putting pressure on aromaticity along with in situ experimental electron density of a molecular crystal. Nature communications, 7, p. 10901. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/ncomms10901

Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Macchi, Piero (2016). The Role of Hydrogen Bond in Designing Molecular Optical Materials. Crystals, 6(4), p. 43. MDPI 10.3390/cryst6040043

Ernst, Michelle; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Macchi, Piero (2016). Optical properties of metal–organic networks from distributed atomic polarizabilities. CrystEngComm, 18(38), pp. 7339-7346. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C6CE00918B

Zardi, Paolo; Intrieri, Daniela; Carminati, Daniela Maria; Ferretti, Francesco; Macchi, Piero; Gallo, Emma (2016). Synthesis and catalytic activity of μ-oxo ruthenium(IV) porphyrin species to promote amination reactions. Journal of porphyrins and phthalocyanines, 20(08n11), pp. 1156-1165. World Scientific 10.1142/S1088424616500814

Fisch, Martin; Lanza, Arianna; Boldyreva, Elena; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola (2015). Kinetic Control of High-Pressure Solid-State Phase Transitions: A Case Study on l -Serine. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 119(32), pp. 18611-18617. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05838

Scherer, Wolfgang; Dunbar, A. C.; Barquera-Lozada, J. E.; Schmitz, D; Eickerling, G; Kratzert, D; Stalke, D; Lanza, Arianna; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero; Kuntscher, C (2015). Anagostic Interactions under Pressure: Attractive or Repulsive? Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 54(8), pp. 2505-2509. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.201410532

Alemany, Pere; Canadell, Enric; Geng, Yan; Hauser, Jürg; Macchi, Piero; Krämer, Karl; Decurtins, Silvio; Liu, Shi-Xia (2015). Exploring the Electronic Structure of an Organic Semiconductor Based on a Compactly Fused Electron Donor-Acceptor Molecule. ChemPhysChem, 16(7), pp. 1361-1365. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/cphc.201500090

Ayers, P. W.; Boyd, R. J.; Bultinck, P; Caffarel, M; Carbo-Dorca, R; Causa, M; Cioslowski, J; Contreras-Garcia, J; Cooper, D. L.; Coppens, P; Gatti, C; Grabowsky, Simon; Lazzeretti, P; Macchi, Piero; Martin Pendas, A; Popelier, P. L. A.; Ruedenberg, K; Rzepa, H; Savin, A; Sax, A; ... (2015). Six Questions on Topology in Theoretical Chemistry. Computational and theoretical chemistry, 1053, pp. 2-16. Elsevier 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.09.028

Macchi, Piero; Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata (2015). The polarizability of organometallic bonds. Computational and theoretical chemistry, 1053, pp. 165-172. Elsevier 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.09.032

Tiana, Davide; Francisco, E.; Macchi, Piero; Sironi, Angelo; Martín Pendás, A. (2015). An Interacting Quantum Atoms Analysis of the Metal–Metal Bond in [M 2 (CO) 8 ] n Systems. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(10), pp. 2153-2160. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b00070

Macchi, Piero; Gillet, Jean-Michel; Taulelle, Francis; Campo, Javier; Claiser, Nicolas; Lecomte, Claude (2015). Modelling the experimental electron density: only the synergy of various approaches can tackle the new challenges. IUCrJ, 2(4), pp. 441-451. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252515007538

Lanza, Arianna; Germann, Luzia Silvana; Fisch, Martin; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero (2015). Solid-State Reversible Nucleophilic Addition in a Highly Flexible MOF. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(40), pp. 13072-13078. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jacs.5b09231

Pedrazzini, Tommaso; Pirovano, Paolo; Dell'Acqua, Monica; Ragaini, Fabio; Illiano, Pasquale; Macchi, Piero; Abbiati, Giorgio; Caselli, Alessandro (2015). Organometallic Reactivity of [Silver(I)­(Pyridine-Containing Ligand)] Complexes Relevant to Catalysis. European journal of inorganic chemistry, 2015(30), pp. 5089-5098. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/ejic.201500771

Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata; Macchi, Piero (2015). Distributed Atomic Polarizabilities of Amino Acids and their Hydrogen-Bonded Aggregates. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(13), pp. 3285-3298. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b00069

Fisch, Martin; Lanza, Arianna; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola (2015). The benefits of one-dimensional detectors for high-pressure powder X-ray diffraction. Journal of applied crystallography, 48(6), pp. 1956-1963. Blackwell 10.1107/S1600576715020865

Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Genoni, A; Macchi, Piero (2014). Unconstrained and X-ray constrained Extremely Localized Molecular Orbitals: analysis of the reconstructed electron density. Acta Crystallographica Section A, 70(6), pp. 532-551. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273314019652

Vigano, M; Ferretti, F; Caselli, A; Ragaini, F; Rossi, M; Mussini, P; Macchi, Piero (2014). Easy Entry into Reduced Ar-BIANH2 compounds. A New Class of Quinone/Hydroquinone-Type Redox Active Couples with an Easily Tunable Potential. Chemistry - a European journal, 20(44), pp. 14451-14464. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201403594

Zardi, P; Caselli, A; Macchi, Piero; Ferretti, Francesco; Gello, E (2014). Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Compounds by Ruthenium Porphyrin Catalyzed Amination of Benzylic C–H Bonds. Organometallics, 33(9), pp. 2210-2218. American Chemical Society 10.1021/om500064d

Macchi, Piero (2014). Crystallographic approaches for the investigation of molecular materials: structure property relationships and reverse crystal engineering. CHIMIA, 68(1), pp. 31-37. Bern: Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft 10.2533/chimia.2014.31

Lanza, Arianna; Fiolka, Christoph; Fisch, Martin; Casati, N.; Skoulatos, M.; Rüegg, C.; Krämer, Karl; Macchi, Piero (2014). New magnetic frameworks of [(CuF 2 (H 2 O) 2 ) x (pyz)]. Chemical communications, 50(93), pp. 14504-14507. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C4CC06696K

Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata; Perez, Daniel; Macchi, Piero (2014). PolaBer: a program to calculate and visualize distributed atomic polarizabilities based on electron density partitioning. Journal of applied crystallography, 47(4), pp. 1452-1458. Blackwell 10.1107/S1600576714010838

Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola; Evans, Shaun R.; Gozzo, Fabia; Simoncic, Petra; Tiana, Davide (2014). "Off-axis" metal-metal bond in Mn2(CO)10 at high pressure. Chemical communications, 50(85), pp. 12824-12827. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C4CC04152F

Calahorro, A. J.; Macchi, P.; Salinas-Castillo, A.; San Sebastián, E.; Seco, J. M.; Rodríguez-Diéguez, A. (2014). Photoluminescence of the First Examples of Metal-Organic-Frameworks with Two Novel Tetrazolatephenyl Acetic Acid Derivatives. An Experimental and Theoretical Study. CrystEngComm, 16(45), pp. 10492-10496. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C4CE00662C

Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata; Macchi, Piero (2014). Charge density analysis for crystal engineering. Chemistry Central Journal, 8(1), p. 68. Chemistry Central 10.1186/s13065-014-0068-x

Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola; Kleppe, Annette; Jephcoat, Andrew (2014). Electron density of molecular crystals at high pressure from synchrotron data. Acta Crystallographica Section A, A70, C1340. International Union of Crystallography

Casati, Nicola; Jephcoat, Heribert; Wilhelm, Heribert; Macchi, Piero (2014). Chemical reactivity at high pressure: the ordered polymerization of oxalic acid. Acta Crystallographica Section A, A70, C898. International Union of Crystallography

Chimpri, Abita Shyorotra; Gryl, Marlena; Dos Santos, Leonardo H, R.; Krawczuk, Anna; Macchi, Piero (2013). Correlation between Accurate Electron Density and Linear Optical Properties in Amino Acid Derivatives: L-Histidinium Hydrogen Oxalate. Crystal growth & design, 13(7), pp. 2995-3010. American Chemical Society 10.1021/cg400411t

Chimpri, Abita S.; Macchi, Piero (2013). Electron density building block approach for metal organic frameworks. Physica scripta, 87(4), 048105. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-8949/87/04/048105

Macchi, Piero (2013). Modern charge density studies: the entanglement of experiment and theory. Crystallography Reviews, 19(2), pp. 58-101. Oxon, England: Taylor & Francis 10.1080/0889311X.2013.785538

Macchi, Piero; Wang, Jingying; Guidetti-Grept, Regine; Keese, Reinhart (2013). The structure of some [4.5.5.5]fenestranes. Tetrahedron, 69(11), pp. 2479-2483. THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND: Elsevier Science 10.1016/j.tet.2013.01.016

Keese, Reinhart; Berdat, Francois; Macchi, Piero (2013). Stereoselectivity of Additions to N-Methyl Acetonitrilium Fluorosulfonate. Journal of organic chemistry, 78(5), pp. 1965-1970. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jo301983s

Ceriotti, Alessandro; Macchi, Piero; Sironi, Annalisa; El Afefey, Simona; Daghetta, Matteo; Fedi, Serena; de Biani, Fabrizia Fabrizi; Della Pergola, Roberto (2013). Cooperative Effects of Electron Donors and Acceptors for the Stabilization of Elusive Metal Cluster Frameworks: Synthesis and Solid-State Structures of Pt-19(CO)(24)(mu(4)-AuPPh3)(3)](-) and Pt-19(CO)(24){mu(4)-Au-2(PPh3)(2)}(2)]. Inorganic chemistry, 52(4), pp. 1960-1964. American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic302282y

Castano, Brunilde; Guidone, Stefano; Gallo, Emma; Ragaini, Fabio; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero; Sisti, Massimo; Caselli, Alessandro (2013). Asymmetric cyclopropanation of olefins catalysed by Cu(I) complexes of chiral pyridine-containing macrocyclic ligands (Pc-L*). Dalton transactions, 42(7), pp. 2451-2462. Cambs, England: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c2dt32347h

Rimoldi, Martino; Ragaini, Fabio; Gallo, Emma; Ferretti, Francesco; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola (2012). Unexpected isomerism in “[Pd(2,9-dimethylphenanthroline)X2]” (X = Cl, Br, I) complexes: a neutral and an ionic form exist. Dalton transactions, 41(13), pp. 3648-3658. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C2DT11979J

Intrieri, Daniela; Caselli, Alessandro; Ragaini, Fabio; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola; Gallo, Emma (2012). Insights into the Mechanism of the Ruthenium–Porphyrin-Catalysed Allylic Amination of Olefins by Aryl Azides. European journal of inorganic chemistry, 2012(3), pp. 569-580. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/ejic.201100763

Cherchi, Laura; Fumagalli, Alessandro; Fedi, Serena; Zanello, Piero; De Biani, Fabrizia Fabrizi; Laschi, Franco; Garlaschelli, Luigi; Macchi, Piero; Sironi, Angelo (2012). Synthesis, Reactivity, Electrochemical Behavior, and Crystal Structure of a Family of Multivalent Metal Carbido–Carbonyl Clusters Based on the Rh10(C)2Au4-6 Framework. Inorganic chemistry, 51(17), pp. 9171-9180. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic201613j

Bennett, T. D.; Simoncic, P.; Moggach, S. A.; Gozzo, F.; Macchi, P.; Keen, D. A.; Tan, J. C.; Cheetham, A. K. (2011). Reversible pressure-induced amorphization of a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-4). Chemical communications, 47(28), pp. 7983-7985. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c1cc11985k

Bruni, G.; Gozzo, F.; Capsoni, D.; Bini, M.; Macchi, P.; Simoncic, P.; Berbenni, V.; Milanese, C.; Girella, A.; Ferrari, S.; Marini, A. (2011). Thermal, Spectroscopic, and Ab Initio Structural Characterization of Carprofen Polymorphs. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 100(6), pp. 2321-2332. New York, N.Y.: Wiley 10.1002/jps.22470

Macchi, P. (2011). On the Nature of Chemical Bonding in gamma-Boron. Journal of superhard materials, 33(6), pp. 380-387. New York, N.Y.: Allerton Press 10.3103/S1063457612060020

Macchi, P.; Burgi, H. B.; Chimpri, A. S.; Hauser, J.; Gal, Z. (2011). Low-energy contamination of Mo microsource X-ray radiation: analysis and solution of the problem. Journal of applied crystallography, 44(4), pp. 763-771. Oxford: Blackwell 10.1107/S0021889811016232

Marelli, E.; Casati, N.; Gozzo, F.; Macchi, P.; Simoncic, P.; Sironi, A. (2011). High pressure modification of organic NLO materials: large conformational re-arrangement of 4-aminobenzophenone. CrystEngComm, 13(22), pp. 6845-6849. London: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c1ce05742a

Ragaini, F.; Larici, H.; Rimoldi, M.; Caselli, A.; Ferretti, F.; Macchi, P.; Casati, N. (2011). Mapping Palladium Reduction by Carbon Monoxide in a Catalytically Relevant System. A Novel Palladium(I) Dimer. Organometallics, 30(8), pp. 2385-2393. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/om200118v

Tiana, D.; Francisco, E.; Blanco, M. A.; Macchi, P.; Sironi, A.; Pendas, A. M. (2011). Restoring orbital thinking from real space descriptions: bonding in classical and non-classical transition metal carbonyls. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(11), pp. 5068-5077. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c0cp01969k

Cariati, E.; Ugo, R.; Santoro, G.; Tordin, E.; Sorace, L.; Caneschi, A.; Sironi, A.; Macchi, P.; Casati, N. (2010). Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization in Non-Linear Optical Active Layered Mixed Metal Oxalate Chains. Inorganic chemistry, 49(23), pp. 10894-10901. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic1013076

Hagar, M.; Ragaini, F.; Monticelli, E.; Caselli, A.; Macchi, P.; Casati, N. (2010). Chiral cyclopropylamines in the synthesis of new ligands; first asymmetric Alkyl-BIAN compounds. Chemical communications, 46(33), pp. 6153-6155. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c0cc00977f

Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola; Marshall, William G.; Sironi, Angelo (2010). The alpha and beta forms of oxalic acid di-hydrate at high pressure: a theoretical simulation and a neutron diffraction study. CrystEngComm, 12(9), pp. 2596-2603. London: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c002471f

Nunzi, Francesca; Fantacci, Simona; Cariati, Elena; Tordin, Elisa; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero (2010). Stabilization through p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde of a new NLO-active phase of [E-4-(4-dimethylaminostyryl)-1-methylpyridinium] iodide: synthesis, structural characterization and theoretical investigation of its electronic properties. Journal of materials chemistry, 20(36), pp. 7652-7660. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c0jm00466a

Peli, Giulia; Daghetta, Matteo; Macchi, Piero; Sironi, Angelo; Garlaschelli, Luigi (2010). Four tetrairidium carbonyl clusters linked by six diphosphino ligands: synthesis and X-ray structure of [{Ir-4(CO)(9)}(4)(dppmb)(6)] (dppmb=1,4-bis(diphenylphosphinomethyl)benzene. Dalton transactions, 39(5), pp. 1188-1190. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/b918770g

Tiana, D.; Francisco, E.; Blanco, M.A.; Macchi, P.; Sironi, A.; Pendas, A.M. (2010). Bonding in Classical and Nonclassical Transition Metal Carbonyls: The Interacting Quantum Atoms Perspective. Journal of chemical theory and computation, 6(4), pp. 1064-1074. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/ct9006629

Macchi, Piero (2009). Electron Density distribution in Organometallic materials. CHIMIA, 63(1-2), pp. 29-34. Bern: Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft 10.2533/chimia.2009.29

Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero; Sironi, Angelo (2009). Molecular Crystals Under High Pressure: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Solid-Solid Phase Transitions in Co2(CO)6(XPh3)2 (X=P, As). Chemistry - a European journal, 15(17), pp. 4446-4457. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.200801528

Dragonetti, Claudia; Carlucci, Lucia; D'Alfonso, Giuseppe; Lucenti, Elena; Macchi, Piero; Roberto, Dominique; Sironi, Angelo; Ugo, Renato (2009). Synthesis, Spectroscopic and X-ray Characterization of Rhenium Carbonyl Complexes with Different Silsesquioxanes, as Models that Mimic the Chemical Behaviour and the Topology of the Silica Surface. Organometallics, 28(9), pp. 2668-2676. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/om800991s

Casati, Nicola; Sironi, Angelo; Macchi, Piero (2009). Hydrogen migration in oxalic acid di-hydrate at high pressure? Chemical communications(19), p. 2679. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/b823458b

Acetti, Danila; D'Arrigo, Paola; Giordano, Carmen; Macchi, Piero; Servia, Stefano; Tessaro, Davide (2009). New aliphatic glycerophosphoryl-containing polyurethanes: synthesis, platelet adhesion and elution cytotoxicity studies. International journal of artificial organs, 32(4), pp. 204-212. Milano: Wichtig Editore

Fantauzzi, Simone; Gallo, Emma; Caselli, Alessandro; Ragaini, Fabio; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero; Cenini, Sergio (2009). The Key Intermediate in the Aminations of Saturated C-H Bonds: Synthesis, X-ray Characterization and Catalytic Activity of Ru(TPP)(NAr)2 (Ar = 3,5-(CF3)2C6H5). Chemical communications(26), p. 3952. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/b903238j

Macchi, Piero (2009). Resonant structures and electron density analysis. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 48(32), pp. 5793-5795. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.200901298

Ragaini, Fabio; Gasperini, Monica; Cenini, Sergio; Arnera, Lucia; Caselli, Alessandro; Macchi, Piero; Casati, Nicola (2009). Mechanistic Study of the Palladium Phenanthroline Catalyzed Carbonylation of Nitroarenes and Amines: Palladium Carbonyl. Chemistry - a European journal, 15(32), pp. 8064-8077. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.200801882

Farrugia, Louis J.; Macchi, Piero (2009). On the interpretation of the source function. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 113(37), pp. 10058-10067. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp9036588

Book Section

Macci, Piero (2012). Cryo-Crystallography: Diffraction at Low Temperature and More. In: Rissanen, Kari (ed.) Advanced X-Ray Crystallography. Topics in Current Chemistry: Vol. 315 (pp. 33-67). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 10.1007/128_2011_207

Farrugia, Louis J.; Macchi, Piero (2012). Bond Orders in Metal–Metal Interactions Through Electron Density Analysis. In: Stalke, Dietmar (ed.) Electron Density and Chemical Bonding I. Experimental Charge Density Studies 146 (pp. 127-158). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 10.1007/430_2010_30

Gatti, Carlo; Macchi, Piero (2012). A Guided Tour Through Modern Charge Density Analysis. In: Gatti, Carlo; Macchi, Piero (eds.) Modern Charge-Density Analysis (pp. 1-78). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 10.1007/978-90-481-3836-4_1

Macchi, P.; Boldyreva, E.; Dera, P. (2010). Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry and Semi-Empirical Description of Solid State Phases Under High Pressure: Chemical Applications. In: Boldyreva, E.; Dera, P. (eds.) High-Pressure Crystallography From Fundamental Phenomena to Technological Applications. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (pp. 325-339). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 10.1007/978-90-481-9258-8_26

Book

Gatti, Carlo; Macchi, Piero (eds.) (2012). Modern Charge-Density Analysis. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag

Report

Krawczuk-Pantula, A.; Pérez, D.; Stadnicka, K.; Macchi, P. (2011). Distributed atomic polarizabilities from electron density. 1. Motivations and Theory

Conference or Workshop Item

Ernst, Michelle; Dos Santos, Leonardo H.; Krawczuk, Anna; Macchi, Piero (21 August 2017). Cluster analysis of functional group polarizabilities (Unpublished). In: General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography. Hyderabad, India. 21 - 28 August 2017.

Macchi, Piero; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata (2017). Cluster analysis of functional group polarizabilities (Submitted). In: 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography. Hyderabad, India. 21.-28.8.2017.

Hesterberg, Rolf; Macchi, Piero; Hulliger, Jürg (1 September 2016). Inner and outer electrical field and dipole moment of a polar molecular crystal. Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, A72, S324-S324. International Union of Crystallography

Macchi, Piero; Lanza, Arianna; Germann, Luzia Silvana; Fisch, Martin; Casati, Nicola (2016). Pressure induced chemisorption in isoreticular metal organic frameworks. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 72(a1), s135-s135. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273316097990

Lanza, Arianna; Scatena, Rebecca; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Kubus, Mariusz; Krämer, Karl; Keller, Lukas; Fennell, Tom; Wehinger, Björn; Biffin, Alun; Rüegg, Christian; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero (2016). Copper-pyrazine magnetic polymers under high pressure. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 72(a1), s88. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273316098697

Scatena, Rebecca; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Lanza, Arianna; Casati, Nicola; Wehinger, Björn; Rüegg, Christian; Kubus, Mariusz; Krämer, Karl; Keller, Lukas; Fennell, Tom; Biffin, Alun; Macchi, Piero (2016). Electron density analysis in quantum magnets. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 72(a1), s313-s313. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273316095309

Montisci, Fabio; Lanza, Arianna; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero (2016). Testing soft donor-acceptor intermolecular interactions with high pressure. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 72(a1), s400-s400. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S205327331609416X

Kubus, Mariusz; Lanza, Arianna; Casati, Nicola; Macchi, Piero; Keller, Lukas; Fiolka, Christoph; Schefer, Jürg; Rüegg, Christian; Krämer, Karl (2016). New antiferromagnets [CuX(pyz) 2 ](BF 4 ) with X = Cl and Br. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 72(a1), s92. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273316098648

Macchi, Piero (November 2013). A reverse crystal Engineering approach. In: Natta's seed grow. Milano, Politecnico. 21-2.9.2013.

Macchi, Piero (June 2013). Input and output of a structural refinement (Unpublished). In: Zurich School of crystallography.

Macchi, Piero (March 2013). Necessities and Pitfalls of the multipolar models (Unpublished). In: Synchrotron Charge Density School.

Macchi, Piero; Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto; Krawczuk, Anna Malgorzata (2013). Calculation of crystal optical properties from molecular electron density. In: Meeting of the Italian Spanish and Swiss Crystallographic Associations. Como, Italy. 9-12 September 2013.

Chimpri, A. S.; Macchi, P. (2011). Properties of metal oxalate materials from electron density. Modelling the building blocks and evaluation of framework interaction. Acte Crystallographica Section A, 67, C820-C821.

Krawczuk-Pantula, A.; Macchi, P. (2011). Atomic polarization and multipolar model. Acte Crystallographica Section A, 67, C506-C507.

Krawczuk-Pantula, A.; Macchi, P. (2011). Atomic polarizabilities and multipolar model. In: Meeting of the Swiss Crystallographic Society.

Macchi, P. (2011). Properties of Molecular Materials from Electron Density distribution. In: Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, 28 May-2 June 2011, New Orleans. American Crystallographic Association

Macchi, P. (2011). The high pressure form of Mn2(CO)10. In: XL Congresso of the Italian Crystallographic Association, Siena, Italy.

Macchi, P.; Bürgi, H. B.; Chimpri, A. S.; Hauser, J.; Gàl, Z. (2011). On the purirty of micro-source X-ray radiation. Acte Crystallographica Section A, C257.

Macchi, P.; Casati, N. (2011). Strong Hydrogen bonds in crystals under high pressure. Acte Crystallographica Section A, C163-C164.

Macchi, P.; Casati, N.; Gozzo, F.; Simoncic, P.; Tiana, D. (2011). High-pressure structure of Mn2(CO)10: an off-axis M-M bond. Acte Crystallographica Section A, 67, C506.

Thesis

Rezende dos Santos, Leonardo Humberto (2016). Materials properties from electron density distributions: Molecular magnetism and linear optical properties. (Dissertation, Universität Bern, Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät)