Personal identification

Full name

Flávia Leitão

Citation names

• Leitão, Flávia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

6311-D38E-2C7A

ORCID iD

0000-0003-3160-9567

Email addresses

• fl.leitao@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
• Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Electrochemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)

	Degree	Classification
2022/02/28 - 2023 Ongoing	Curso de Iniciação à Investigação em Química Sustentável (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/09 - 2021/12/22 Concluded	Química Bioorgânica (Mestrado) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "New approaches to amino-pyrrolidine guanidine compounds" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18 valores
2016/09 - 2019/07/01 Concluded	Química Aplicada (Licenciatura) Major in Química Orgânica Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Síntese de um alcalóide aminoguanidina" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14 valores

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/28 - 2024/02/28	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/30	New challenges in the synthesis of a natural heterocyclic nucleus - Scientific Initiation Fellow Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/03/01 - Current	ORGANIC REDOX MEDIATORS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION PTDC/QUI-QOR/7450/2020 Research Fellow Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Publications

Conference abstract	Pereira, Florbela; Lourenço, Ana; Aires-de-Sousa, João; Ferreira, Luísa M.; Marques, M. Manuel B.; Sousa, Emília; Branco, Paula S.. "14th Edition of the Nacional Organic Chemistry Meeting and 7th Edition of the Nacional Therapeutic Chemistry Meeting". Paper presented in 14th Edition of the Nacional Organic Chemistry Meeting and 7th Edition of the Nacional Therapeutic Chemistry Meeting, Caparica, 2022. Published • 10.3390/chemproc2022011001
Conference poster	Leitão, Flávia; Vilela, Gonçalo; Cruz, Hugo; Branco, Luis; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Quinonemethides as Potential New Organic Redox Mediators". Paper presented in 15th National organic chemistry meeting and 8th national medicinal chemistry meeting, 2024. Leitão, Flávia; Vilela, Gonçalo; Cruz, Hugo; Branco, Luis; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Quinonemethides as Potential New Organic Redox Mediators". Paper presented in XXV Meeting of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society, 2023. Leitão, Flávia; Vilela, Gonçalo; Cruz, Hugo; Branco, Luis; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Quinonemethides as Potential New Organic Redox Mediators". Paper presented in XXVIII Encontro Nacional da SPQ, 2023. Leitão, Flávia; Galarito, Daniel; Cruz, Hugo; Branco, Luis; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "Potential New Organic Redox Mediators: Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies". Paper presented in 23rd Tetrahedron Symposium, 2023. Rippel, Rafael; Leitão, Flávia; Georgieva, Miglena; Lourenço, Ana; Ferreira, Luísa Maria ; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Rippel, Rafael. "An unexpected loss of chirality: Challenges in the synthesis of an aminopyrrolidine core". Paper presented in 8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC8), 2022. Leitão, Flávia; Rippel, Rafael; Ferreira, Luísa Maria ; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "Challenges in the synthesis of a chiral heterocyclic compound". Paper presented in 14th Edition of the Nacional Organic Chemistry Meeting and 7th Edition of the Nacional Therapeutic Chemistry Meeting, 2022. Leitão, Flávia; Rippel, Rafael; Ferreira, Luísa Maria ; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Leitão, Flávia. "A different kind of aminal: challenges and insights". Paper presented in XXVII Encontro nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2021. Pinheiro, Luís; Rippel, Rafael; Leitão, Flávia; Ferreira, Luísa Maria ; Lourenço, Ana; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Luís. "Biomimetic approach to the synthesis of a singular and challenger pyrrolidine-guanidine core". Paper presented in XXVI Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2019. Pinheiro, Luís; Leitão, Flávia; Lourenço, Ana; Ferreira, Luísa Maria ; Branco, Paula S.. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Luís. "Synthetic route for cernumidine A and analogues". Paper presented in VII ENEQUI, 2019.
Journal article	Rafael Rippel; Flávia Leitão; Miglena K. Georgieva; Rafael Mamede; Clara S. B. Gomes; Catarina Roma-Rodrigues; Alexandra R. Fernandes; et al. "Exploring the synthesis of aminal guanidine-based molecules: synthesis of cernumidine and analogues, and survey of its anti-inflammatory activity". New Journal of Chemistry (2024): https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NJ05406C. 10.1039/D3NJ05406C
Thesis / Dissertation	"New approaches to amino-pyrrolidine guanidine compounds". Master, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2021. "Síntese de um alcalóide aminoguanidina". Degree, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2019.