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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2004 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
  • 1996 - Welch Award in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Foundation
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana United States
  • 1994 - NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) For his discoveries on the structure of a vast array of important natural products and unique contributions to the role of retinal in vision.
  • 1992 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1990 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1986 - Paul Karrer Gold Medal, University of Zurich
  • 1978 - Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1978 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Koji Nakanishi was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry during their career. Their research covered a wide range of topics including aerogels and thermal insulation, mesoporous materials and catalysis, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, silicone and siloxane chemistry, catalytic processes in materials science, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication.

Nakanishi authored numerous papers, some of the recent notable ones include:

  • Superelastic Triple-Network Polyorganosiloxane-Based Aerogels as Transparent Thermal Superinsulators and Efficient Separators (2020, Chemistry of Materials)
  • Hierarchically porous monoliths prepared via sol-gel process accompanied by spinodal decomposition (2020, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology)
  • Colorless Transparent Melamine-Formaldehyde Aerogels for Thermal Insulation (2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials)
  • Unusual flexibility of transparent poly(methylsilsesquioxane) aerogels by surfactant-induced mesoscopic fiber-like assembly (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Superhydrophobic highly flexible doubly cross-linked aerogel/carbon nanotube composites as strain/pressure sensors (2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry B)

The scientist frequently collaborated with several coauthors including Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Masaaki Nakamoto, George Hasegawa, J. Óscar C. Jiménez-Halla, and Rong Shang.

The publication venues where Nakanishi's work appeared most frequently are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Materials Advances

Nakanishi's work spanned many subfields reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach within chemistry and materials science, including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist received several awards throughout their career, such as:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009)
  • Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry from Elsevier (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1996)
  • Welch Award in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Foundation (1996)
  • Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana (1995, United States)
  • NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1994) for discoveries on the structure of a wide range of important natural products and contributions regarding retinal in vision
  • William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (1992)
  • Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (1990)
  • Paul Karrer Gold Medal, University of Zurich (1986)
  • Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (1978)
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (1978)

Best Publications

  • The lipofuscin fluorophore A2E mediates blue light-induced damage to retinal pigmented epithelial cells.

    Janet R. Sparrow;Koji Nakanishi;Craig A. Parish

  • Benzo(a)pyrene diol epoxides as intermediates in nucleic acid binding in vitro and in vivo.

    IB Weinstein;AM Jeffrey;KW Jennette;SH Blobstein

  • Isolation and structure of brevetoxin B from the "red tide" dinoflagellate Ptychodiscus brevis (Gymnodinium breve)

    Yong-Yeng Lin;Martin Risk;Sammy M. Ray;Donna Van Engen

  • Preferential cytotoxicity on tumor cells by caffeic acid phenethyl ester isolated from propolis.

    D. Grunberger;R. Banerjee;K. Eisinger;E. M. Oltz

  • Isolation and structure of a covalent cross-link adduct between mitomycin C and DNA

    Maria Tomasz;Roselyn Lipman;Dondapati Chowdary;Jan Pawlak

  • Exciton chirality method and its application to configurational and conformational studies of natural products

    Nobuyuki Harada;Koji Nakanishi

  • Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Applications in Stereochemical Analysis of Synthetic Compounds, Natural Products, and Biomolecules

    Nina Berova;Prasad L. Polavarapu;Koji Nakanishi;Robert W. Woody

  • Isolation and one-step preparation of A2E and iso-A2E, fluorophores from human retinal pigment epithelium

    Craig A. Parish;Masaru Hashimoto;Koji Nakanishi;James Dillon

  • A rhodopsin is the functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote Chlamydomonas

    Kenneth W. Foster;Kenneth W. Foster;Jureepan Saranak;Jureepan Saranak;Nayana Patel;Gerald Zarilli

  • An external point-charge model for bacteriorhodopsin to account for its purple color

    Koji Nakanishi;Valeria Balogh-Nair;Maria Arnaboldi;Kazuo Tsujimoto

  • An external point-charge model for wavelength regulation in visual pigments

    Barry Honig;Uri Dinur;Koji Nakanishi;Valeria Balogh-Nair

  • Structures of benzo(a)pyrene–nucleic acid adducts formed in human and bovine bronchial explants

    A. M. Jeffrey;I. B. Weinstein;K. W. Jennette;K. Grzeskowiak

  • A2E, a byproduct of the visual cycle.

    Janet R. Sparrow;Nathan Fishkin;Jilin Zhou;Bolin Cai

  • Involvement of oxidative mechanisms in blue-light-induced damage to A2E-laden RPE.

    Janet R. Sparrow;Jilin Zhou;Shimon Ben-Shabat;Heidi Vollmer

  • A2E, a lipofuscin fluorophore, in human retinal pigmented epithelial cells in culture.

    Janet R. Sparrow;Craig A. Parish;Masaru Hashimoto;Koji Nakanishi

  • Immunogenetic and Clinical Characterization of Slowly Progressive IDDM

    Tetsuro Kobayashi;Koji Tamemoto;Koji Nakanishi;Norihiro Kato

  • A2E-epoxides Damage DNA in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells VITAMIN E AND OTHER ANTIOXIDANTS INHIBIT A2E-EPOXIDE FORMATION

    Janet R. Sparrow;Heidi R. Vollmer-Snarr;Jilin Zhou;Young P. Jang

  • BENZO(A)PYRENE-NUCLEIC ACID DERIVATIVE FOUND IN VIVO- STRUCTURE OF A BENZO(A)PYRENETETRAHYDRODIOL EPOXIDE-GUANOSINE ADDUCT

    A. M. Jeffrey;K. W. Jennette;S. H. Blobstein;I. B. Weinstein

  • Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins: versatile circular dichroic reporter groups for structural studies.

    Xuefei Huang;Koji Nakanishi;Nina Berova

  • Structural Studies by Exciton Coupled Circular Dichroism over a Large Distance: Porphyrin Derivatives of Steroids, Dimeric Steroids, and Brevetoxin B⊥

    Stefan Matile;Nina Berova;Koji Nakanishi;Jörg Fleischhauer

  • Physicochemical characterization of a ouabain isomer isolated from bovine hypothalamus

    A A Tymiak;J A Norman;M Bolgar;G C DiDonato

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
Janet R. Sparrow
Janet R. Sparrow Columbia University
Babak Borhan
Babak Borhan Michigan State University
Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University
Nobuyuki Harada
Nobuyuki Harada Tohoku University
Xuefei Huang
Xuefei Huang Michigan State University
Maria Tomasz
Maria Tomasz City University of New York
Barry Honig
Barry Honig Columbia University
Rosalie K. Crouch
Rosalie K. Crouch Medical University of South Carolina
Stefan Matile
Stefan Matile University of Geneva

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