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Identification

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)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/03/01 - 2028/02/27
Ongoing
 Programa doutoral em Química Sustentável (Doutoramento)
Major in Síntese orgânica
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/02/28 - 2024/02/28
Concluded
 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
Affiliation

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
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/03/01 - 2028/02/29 SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES TO TARGET CHRONIC AND ACUTE PAIN
2023.04840.BDANA
10.54499/2023.04840.BDANA
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/30 New challenges in the synthesis of a natural heterocyclic nucleus
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Scientific Initiation Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/03/01 - 2024/02/28 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
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  1. Leitão, Flávia; Galrito, Daniel; Branco, Luís C.; Cruz, Hugo; Branco, Paula S.. "Electrochemical Studies of Benzoquinone, Hydrobenzoquinone, Diphenoquinone and Hydrodiphenoquinone-Based Compounds". Electrochemical Science Advances (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.70006.
    10.1002/elsa.70006
  2. Leitão, Flávia; Hugo Cruz; Luís C. Branco; Paula S. Branco. "Quinonas Como Mediadores Redox Orgânicos em Baterias Redox de Caudal". Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (2024): 33. https://doi.org/10.52590/m3.p719.a30002922.
    Published • 10.52590/m3.p719.a30002922
  3. 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
  1. "New approaches to amino-pyrrolidine guanidine compounds". Master, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2021.
  2. "Síntese de um alcalóide aminoguanidina". Degree, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2019.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/04/20 Challenges in the synthesis of a chiral heterocyclic compound 14th Edition of the Nacional Organic Chemistry Meeting and 7th Edition of the Nacional Therapeutic Chemistry Meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Caparica, Portugal)
2021/07/14 Total Synthesis of Cernumidine XXVII Encontro nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Braga, Portugal)
2021/05/19 Synthesis of inspiring aminal-guanidine based molecules 7th Portuguese young chemists meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Bragança, Portugal)
2021/02 Inspiring Aminal-Guanidine Based Molecules: Their Synthesis and Application JorTec Química
(Caparica, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/04/20 - 2022/04/22 Volunteer in the organization of the 14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting and 7th National Therapeutic Chemistry Meeting (2022/04/20 - 2022/04/22)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal