[4] They had three children there; the youngest was Alfredo Basolo (he began calling himself "Fred" when he entered elementary school).
He spent the remaining World War II years performing vital research at Rohm & Haas.
Basolo worked in the laboratory of Danish chemist Jannik Bjerrum; they were also able to tour several countries, including Italy, where they met his parents' relatives.
He died at the Midwest Palliative and Hospice Care Center in Skokie, Illinois of congestive heart failure.
[6] Among the many topics on which Basolo published were the indenyl effect, the reaction of coordinated ligands, and synthetic models for myoglobin.