Introduction to Computational Chemistry

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John Wiley & Sons, Dec 14, 2016 - Science - 672 pages

Introduction to Computational Chemistry 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive account of the fundamental principles underlying different computational methods. Fully revised and updated throughout to reflect important method developments and improvements since publication of the previous edition, this timely update includes the following significant revisions and new topics:

  • Polarizable force fields
  • Tight-binding DFT
  • More extensive DFT functionals, excited states and time dependent molecular properties
  • Accelerated Molecular Dynamics methods
  • Tensor decomposition methods
  • Cluster analysis
  • Reduced scaling and reduced prefactor methods

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Contents

Cover Page
Preface to the Third Edition
11 Comparison of Evdw functionals for the attractive part of
13 Definition of variables for a dipoledipole interaction
14 Interactions between static and polarizable dipolar molecules
15 Illustrating the elongation of the CH bond
18 The structure of acetaldehyde
Table5 4Table5 5Table5 6Chapter6Table6 1Table6 2Chapter7Table7 1Table7 2Table7 3Chapter8Table8 1Chapter9Table9 1Chapter10Table10 1Tab...
Semiempirical Methods
Valence Bond Methods
Relativistic Methods
Statistics and QSAR
Wave Function Analysis
Force Field Methods
Illustrating the Concepts
Optimization Techniques

Chapter 13
21 Comparing different Ebend functionals for the H2O potential
23 Illustration of the ONIOM extrapolation method
HartreeFock Theory
Chapter 14
Basis Sets
Electron Correlation Methods
Density Functional Methods
Chapter 15
References
Statistical Mechanics and Transition State Theory
Chapter 16
Molecular Properties
Qualitative Theories
Mathematical Methods
Concluding Remarks
Appendix
Appendix D
Appendix
Copyright

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Professor Frank Jensen, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
Frank Jensen obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987 with Professors C. S. Foote and K. N. Houk, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published over 120 papers and articles, and has been a member of the editorial boards of Advances in Quantum Chemistry (2005 - 2011) and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2006-2011).

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