Computational
Chemistry is the modeling of chemical phenomenon using computers rather than
chemicals. Topics covered includes: Ab initio quantum chemistry, Theoretical
model, The Hamiltonian, The hydrogen atom, Hartree-Fock theory, The
Born-Oppenheimer approximation, The Hartree wavefunction, The variational
principle, Electron spin, Gaussian basis functions, Electronic energy
decomposition.
This note covers the following topics: Organic Chemistry: organocatalysis,
Bioorganic Chemistry: peptide conformation, Photochemistry and Photobiology:
olefins, vision and switches.
This note
describes the following topics: The Schrodinger equation for N electrons and M
nuclei of a molecule, Time Dependent Methods in Spectroscopy, Molecular
Dynamics, Quantum-Based Theories of Condensed Matter, Stressed-Out Metals,
Modern Electronic Structure Method.
This
note covers the following topics: Protein Structure and Dynamics, Statistical
Mechanics of Proteins, Steered Molecular Dynamics of Proteins, Simulating
Membrane Channels, Quantum Chemistry of Proteins, Parameters for Classical Force
Fields, Bioinformatics of Proteins, Simulation of Lipids and Modeling Large
Systems.
Author(s): University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign
This note describes the following topics: Theoretical
background of computational chemistry, How to do a computational research
project (lab), Potential Energy Surface, Molecular Schrodinger equation, Dirac’s
sea of electrons, Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, Variational Principle,
Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field (SCF) Method.
Author(s): The School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, Israel
This note covers the following topics:
Experimental data, Calculated data, Data comparisons, Cost comparisons, Input
and output files, Geometries, Vibrations, Reaction data, Entropy data,
Bibliographic data, Ion data, Bad calculations, Index of properties and H-bond
dimers.
Author(s): U.S. Secretary of Commerce on
behalf of the United States of America