Author

NISHIO, Motohiro

Born 1936 (Kobe, Japan)
Ph. D (1965, the University of Tokyo)
The CHPI Institute (Atami, Shizuoka)

Career

1959:	Graduated, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Univ. of Tokyo
1959-1996:	Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd. (R&D Division)
1961-1963:	Dept. of Agricultural Chemistry, the Univ. of Tokyo
1965-1966:	Faculte de Pharmacie, Universite de Paris
1993-1995:	Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato Univ.
1996-2000:	Visiting Scientist, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
1996-1999:	Visiting Professor, Dept. of Materials Science, Chiba Univ.
1997-1998:	Lecturer, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Yokohama National Univ.
1999:	Lecturer, Chemistry Department, the Univ. of Tsukuba
1999-2002:	Lecturer, Dept. of Materials Engineering, Chiba Univ.
1999-____:	The CHPI Institute
2000:	Lecturer, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Osaka City Univ.
2001:	Lecturer, Dept. of Materials Chemistry, Gunma Univ.

Contributions

6 books (1 in English, 5 in Japanese)
35 reviews (12 in English, 23 in Japanese)
100 papers (90 in English, 3 in French, 7 in Japanese)

Chapter 8 in Topics in Stereochemistry, Vol. 25, Eds. S. E. Denmark, H. S. Siegel. Wiley-Interscience, 2006: M. Nishio, Y. Umezawa, The CH/π Hydrogen Bond: An Important Molecular Force in Controlling the Crystal Conformation of Organic Compounds and Three-dimensional Structure of Biopolymers.

Chapter 10 in The Fragment Molecular Orbital Method, Practical Applications to Large Molecular Systems, Eds. D. G. Fedorov, K. Kitaura. CRC Press, 2009: T. Ozawa, K. Okazaki, M. Nishio, FMO as a Tool for Structure-Based Drug Design.

Chapter 1 in The Importance of Pi-Interactions in Crystal Engineering: Eds. E. R. T. Thiekink & J. Zukerman-Schpector, Wiley, 2012: M. Nishio et al., The CH/π Hydrogen Bond: Implication in Crystal Engineering.

Hobby

Chemistry

Trip:

Music: J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, F. Chopin, G. Verdi, etc.;

Reading: Buddha; Suttanipata, Dhammapada, Udanavarga, etc.); Dogen-Zenbuddist; Shobou Genzo; J. W. Goethe; Faust, Italienische Reise. Et in Arcadia ego, etc.); Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, Antichrist; Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, Ein Hungerkunstler; Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi). Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, The Japanese Smile, Kwaidan; Yukichi Fukuzawa, Soseki Natsume (Japan’s greatest writer), too many items to be cited here; Tetsuro Watsuji, Ango Sakaguchi; Fumio Masutani; Shokou Watanabe; Michio Takeyama; Takeshi Umehara, etc.;

Writing of papers and reviews;

Gourmandise:

Walking:

About the CH/π Institute

Established in 1999 by the author at Machida, Tokyo.

On E-mail address, please replace " AT " with @.

President: Motohiro Nishio, new E-mail address: mn_chpiinstitute" AT "fol.hi-ho.ne.jp
Fellow: Yuji Kohno, kohno" AT "ma3.seikyou.ne.jp

Number of employee: 0
Equipments: 1 personal computer (iMac 8GB)

Coworkers:

Dr Sei Tsuboyama (CSD analysis. Tokyo: yosuke" AT "jf6.so-net.ne.jp)
Dr Yoji Umezawa (PDB and CSD analysis. Microbial Chemistry Research Center, Tokyo: umezaway" AT "bikaken.or.jp)
Dr Hiroko Suezawa (CSD analysis, NMR. suezawa" AT "aioros.ocn.ne.jp)
Dr Kazumasa Honda (CSD analysis. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: kaz-honda" AT "aist.go.jp)
Prof. Osamu Takahashi (MO calculations. Hiroshima Univ., Higashi Hiroshima: shu" AT "hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Prof. Yuji Kohno (MO calculations. Yokohama National Univ., Yokohama: kohnoy" AT "ynu.ac.jp)
Prof. Kazuyoshi Ueda (General. Yokohama National Univ., Yokohama: k-ueda" AT "ynu.ac.jp)
Dr Yoji Kurihara (MO calculations. Yokohama National Univ., Yokohama: radish" AT "ma4.seikyou.ne.jp)
Dr Tomonaga Ozawa (FMO analysis. Kissei Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.: tomonaga_ozawa" AT "pharm.kissei.co.jp)
Prof. Kaori Fukuzawa (MO calculations. Hoshi College of Pharmacy: k-fukuzawa AT hoshi.ac.jp)

Invited Speech in Conferences

Göttingen (International Conference on Hydrogen Bonds)

Bochum (International Conference on ORD/CD)

Sestri Levante (International Conference on Weak Molecular Interactions)

Tokyo (International Conference on Natural Products)

Strasbourg (Joint Symposium French-Japanese)

Okazaki (Oji Seminar on Chemical Consequences of Weak Molecular Interaction, IMS)

Kyoto (National Conference on Crystallographic Researches)

Osaka (IPR Symposium on Molecular Recognition on the Surface of Catalysts)

Tokyo (CSJ Conference on Mechanism of Molecular Recognition)

Lecture in Seminars

Univ. London, Kings College

Univ. Oxford

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, CCDC

Univ. Reading

Univ. Birmingham

Germany

Univ. Erlangen

Univ. Bonn

Univ. Essen

Univ. Düsseldorf

Univ. Hamburg

Univ. Dresden

Univ. Freiberg

France

Univ. Strasbourg

College de France

NRS Paris-est, ICMPE

Univ. Paris 5

Univ. Paris 7

Univ. Paris-sud

École Normale Supérieure, ENS-Lyon

Univ. Bordeaux Faculty of Pharmacy

Univ. Toulouse Faculty of Science

Univ. Marseilles Faculty of Science

Spain

Institute of Physical Chemistry, IQFR, Madrid

Univ.-Autonome Barcelona, UAB

Univ. Barcelona, IQTCUB

Italy

Univ. Milano

Univ. Padua

Univ. Parma

Univ. Bologna

Univ. Firenze

Univ. Siena

Univ. Napoli Federico II

Univ. Salerno

Univ. Catania

Univ. Bari

Czech

Univ. Prague, UCT

USA

Univ. of California Berkeley

Univ. of California San Diego

Texas M&A Univ.

Japan

Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Science

Gunma Univ. Faculty of Engineering

Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Tsukuba Univ. Chemistry Department

Institute of Adv. Industrial Sci. & Tech., AIST

Institute for Materials Science, NIMS

Institute of Physical and Chemical Researches, RIKEN

Tokyo Univ. Faculty of Sciences

Tokyo Univ. Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, IMC

Tokyo Univ. Faculty of Engineering

Rikkyo Univ. Graduate School of Science

Nihon Univ. Faculty of Industrial Engineering

Tokyo Institute of Technology, TIT

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, TAT

Institute of Microbial Chemistry, BIKAKEN

Kitasato Univ. Faculty of Pharmacy

Yokohama Natl. Univ.

Yokohama City Univ.

Chiba Univ.

Toho Univ.

Chugai Pharmaceutical Industries

Asahi Kasei Pharmaceutical Research Labs.

NOF Corporation, Taketoyo Plant

Toyohashi School of Engineering & Science

Nagoya City Univ.

Meijo Univ. Faculty of Agriculture

Kyoto Univ. Faculty of Integrated Human Studies

Kyoto Univ. Faculty of Science

Osaka Univ. Department of Materials Engineering Science

Osaka Univ. Faculty of Engineering

Osaka Univ. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Osaka City Univ.

Kobe Univ.

Okayama Univ.

Asahi Kasei Institute of Chemistry and Processing

Tokushima Bunri Univ. Kagawa-Faculty of Pharmacy

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Research Labs.

Hiroshima Univ.

Kyushu Univ.

Tottori Univ.

Personal notes

Recent trips with Takako

1990/5:	Paris, Baune, Besançon, Lausanne, Milano, Alassio, Monaco, Aix-en-Provence, Chanac, Paris
1991/9:	London, Amsterdam, Bochum (Köln, Archen, Trier, Koblenz, Ludesheim), München, Mittenwald, Verona, Firenze, Venezia, Nice, Marseille, Paris
1993/4-5:	Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Parma, San Giminiano, Siena, Assisi, Ravenna, Bologna, Roma
1993/9-10:	San Diego (Tijuana), San Francisco, Berkeley, Sonoma Valley, College Station, Houston
1994/8-9:	Paris, Verona, Venezia, Rimini, Urbino, Sansepolcro, Perugia, Orbieto, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Parma, Busseto, Mantova, Guarda, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Wien
1995/5:	Paris, Padova, Venezia, Ferrara, Arrezo, Roma
1995/9:	Paris, Fontainebleau, Auxerre, Vezeley, Dijon, Beaune, Nuit-St-Georges, Aosta, Bergamo, Como, Cinque Terre, Carrara, Lucca, Pistoia, Prato, Parma, Pavia
1997/3-4:	Paris, Palermo, Siracusa, Ragusa, Agligento
1998/9:	Roma, Sarelno, Paestum, Pompei, Amalfi, Ravello, Capri, Napoli, Ischia
1999/11-12:	Dalian, Ryishun
2000/5-6:	Basel, Heidelberg, Ulm, Mainz, Essen, Marseille, Avignon, Aigues-Mortes, Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer, St-Gilles, Chanac, Cahors, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Medoc, La Rochelle, Saintes, Penestin, Les Andelys, Beauvais, Paris
2001/5-6:	London, Reading, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge (only Motohiro)
2002/5:	Milano, Padova, Bologna, Modena, Parma, Siena (Chianti), Napoli (Portici, Sorrento, Ercolano), Salerno (Amalfi), Catania (Siracusa, Taormina, Etna)
2003/3:	Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang
2003/11:	Honolulu
2006/4:	Madrid (Toledo, Segovia, Avila), Barcelona, Marseille, Paris
2007/5-6:	Praha, Bonn, Hamburg, Paris, Touron, Dresden, Freiberg, Erlangen, Bamberg, Freiburg
2008/5-6:	London, Edinburgh, Pitrochry, Inverness, Sky island, Stirling
2009/6-7:	Milano, Sestri-Levant, Lucca, Pisa, Firenze, Venizia, Padova, Bergamo
2010/6-7:	Paris, Strasbourg, Besançon, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier
2011/9:	Göttingen (Bremen, Lübeck, Gosler), Salzburg, München, Düsseldorf, Brig (Zermatt, Matterhorn), Basel (Lauterbrunnen, Müllen, Interlaken; with Helmut and Astrid Sigel), Luzern, Zürich
2012/6:	Milano, Firenze, Salerno, Napoli
2014/10:	Prato (Pistoia, Lucca, Arezzo), Roma, Napoli (Pozzuoli, Cuma, Vesuvio, Procida), Palermo (Piazza Armerina, Monreale, Segesta, Erice, Mozia)
2017/6-7:	Paris, London, Rome
2018/5:	Napoli, Paestum, Bari, Lecce, Matera, Alberobello, Reggio, Messina, Taormina, Siracusa, Catania, Palermo, Agrigento, Selinunte, Mazara del Vallo, Marsala, Mozia, Trapani