Professor Davide VITERBO

Università degli Studi del PIEMONTE ORIENTALE "Amedeo Avogadro"

Facoltà di SCIENZE MATEMATICHE FISICHE e NATURALI

Dipartimento di SCIENZE E TECNOLOGIE AVANZATE


Phone: 0039 0131 287414

Fax: 0039 0131 287416

Email:davide.viterbo@mfn.unipmn.it

Brief CV

Born in Torino 1939. Full professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Piemonte Orientale. His reasearch interests are:1) Methodologies of structural analysis by diffraction methods, with particular emphasis on “Direct Methods”. 2) Structural investigation of organic compounds of bio-pharmacological interest. 3) Analysis of weak interactions in molecular crystals by comparing X-ray charge density studies with ab-initio calculation. 4) Characterization  of zeolite-like systems. 5) Structural study of siliceous spicules from marine sponges.Invited as lecturer at a number of  International and National Schools.
Author of 130 publications. Chairman of the IUCr “Computing Commission”. Chairman of the Italian Crystallographic Association and member of the executive committee of the ECA. Presently  member of the executive committee of the IUCr .

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Selected Publications

M. Calleri, G. Ferraris e D. Viterbo - The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Glyoxime - Acta Cryst., 20 (1966), 73-80.

M. Calleri, G. Ferraris e D. Viterbo - On the Isomerism of Aryl-Alkyl Furoxans: The Molecular Structure of Methyl-p- Bromophenylfuroxans - Tetrahedron Letters, No. 46 (1967), 4549-51.

D. Viterbo e M.M. Woolfson - The Determination of Structure Invariants. I. Quadrupoles and their Use - Acta Cryst., A29 (1973), 205-208.

A.M. Silva e D. Viterbo - Effects of Phase Errors on E-Maps - Acta Cryst., A36 (1980), 1065-70.

D. Viterbo - Techniques for Calculating Structure Invariants and Seminvariants - In "Computational Crystallography", Edited by D. Sayre, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1982), 101-109.

G. Appendino, G. Chiari, P. Ugliengo e D. Viterbo - Methylation of Hallerin: Conformational Aspects from X-Ray Analysis and MO Calculations - J. Chem. Soc., Perkin 2 (1987), 215- 218. 

M.C. Burla, M. Camalli, G. Cascarano, C. Giacovazzo, G. Polidori, R. Spagna e D. Viterbo - SIR88: A Direct Methods Program for the Automatic Solution of Crystal Structures - J. Appl. Cryst., 22 (1989), 389.

P. Ugliengo, D. Viterbo and G. Chiari - MOLDRAW: Molecular Graphics on a Personal Computer - Z. Kristallogr., 207 (1993), 9-23.

K. Berckmoes, P.J. De Clercq and D. Viterbo - Polyene Cyclization related to the Oxidosqualene Cyclyzation. A Model  for the anti-Markovnikov Closure of Ring C - J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117 (1995), 5857-5858.

M. Milanesio, R. Bianchi, P. Ugliengo, C. Roetti & D. Viterbo - Vitamin C at 120°K: experimental and theoretical study of the charge density - J. Mol. Struct.: THEOCHEM, 419, No.1-3 (1997), 139-154.

L. Pogliani, M. Milanesio,  M. Ceruti and D. Viterbo - Conformational and Dynamical Study of Squalene Derivatives. III: Azasqualenes and Solvated Squalene - Chem. Phys. Lipids, 103 (1999), 81-93.

M. Milanesio, D. Viterbo, A. Albini, E. Fasani, R. Bianchi and M. Barzaghi – Structural study of the solid state photoaddiction reaction of arylidenox-indoles – J. Org. Chem., 65(11) (2000), 3416-3425..

M.  Milanesio, P. J. De Clercq, Sheng-Ze Zhou, M. Sey, D. Viterbo  A model for the non enzymatic BCD cyclization of Squalene. Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed. Engl., 39 (16), (2000), 2861-2863

D. Viterbo - Solution and Refinement of Crystal Structures, Chapter VI of  the book "Fundamentals of Crystallography (Second Edition)" written  with C. Giacovazzo (Editor), M. Catti, G. Gilli, H. Monaco, G. Artioli, G. Ferraris e G. Zanotti - Oxford University Press, Oxford (2002), pp. 413-501.

L. Palin, C. Lamberti, Å Kvick, F. Testa, R. Aiello, M. Milanesio, D. Viterbo – Single-crystal synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction study of B and Ga silicalites compared to a purely siliceous MFI: a discussion of the heteroatom distribution – J. Phys. Chem. B (2003), 107, 4034-4042.

Croce G, Frache A, Milanesio M, Marchese L, Causa M, Viterbo D, Barbaglia A, Bolis V, Bavestrello G, Cerrano C, Benatti U, Pozzolini M, Giovine M, Amenitsch H. - Structural characterization of siliceous spicules from marine sponges - Biophys J. (2004), 86(1), 526-34.


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Full CV
Born in Torino 5-11-1939. Degree in Chemistry in 1962 by the University of Torino. Full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro” (Alessandria).
His reasearch interests are on the methodologies of structural analysis by diffraction methods, with particular emphasis on the so called “Direct Methods” for the solution of the phase problem. He spent three years by the Physics Dept. of  the University of York (UK) working in this field with Prof. M.M. Woolfson and was involved in research projects with Dr. H. Hauptman (Nobel Prize in 1985), and Prof. C. Giacovazzo (Italgas Prize in 1998).
D. Viterbo has also carried out the structural investigation of several classes of organic compounds of bio-pharmacological interest (furoxans, azoxyderivatives, ranitidine analogues, sesquiterpenoids, taxane derivatives, squalenes, etc).
In the last years he has also undertaken the analysis of the geometric and physico-chemical properties of molecular crystals and of the present weak interactions, by comparing the results of experimental charge density studies from accurate diffraction data, collected at low temperature, with those from ab-initio quantomechanical  calculations.
In the last few years he devoted his attention to the structural characterization  of zeolite-like systems by diffraction techniques on both polycrystalline samples and  single crystals, taking advantage also of  the powerful features of synchrotron radiation.
More recently he has undertaken the structural study of siliceous spicules from marine sponges in order to throw some light on the mechanisms of the biosilicification process.
D. Viterbo  has been invited as lecturer at a number of  International and National Schools.Author of 130 publications and of a Chapter of the book “Fundamentals of Crystallography” (edited by C. Giacovazzo, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002). Chairman of the “Commission for Crystallographic Computing” of the International Union of Crystallography in the period 1993-1996. Chairman of the Italian Crystallographic Association in the triennium 1997-1999 and member of the executive committee of the European Crystallographic Association in the period .....-...... Presently  he is  member of the executive committee of the International Union of Crystallography.