Electron Correlation Methodology

Angela K. Wilson, Kirk A. Peterson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8412-3843-5 (ISBN)

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Modeling is becoming a significant component in the design and analysis of chemical systems in areas such as catalysis, nanomaterials, and biological systems. With rapidly advancing technology, there is an increasing need to model molecules that are quite large and complex, and to model such systems with reasonable accuracy. However, computational methods are generally more numerous and reliable for lighter, smaller molecules since calculations on smaller molecules
are less computationally demanding than for larger molecules, and can take advantage of high accuracy, but prohibitively expensive, computational approaches.

Two widely used approaches for chemical modeling are ab initio correlated methods and density functional theory. Though there is great interest in using these methods for high accuracy calculations on increasingly larger and more complex chemical systems, each approach currently has limitations. Ab initio methods suffer from a high "N-scaling" problem, where the N-scaling represents the computational cost (memory, disk space, and time requirements of the calculations), thus
making high accuracy calculations. Density functional methods have a much lower N-scaling, and thus calculations can be done on much larger molecules. Unfortunately, density functional calculations are generally not as reliable as ab initio approaches, and sometimes, at best can only provide a qualitative description
of properties of interest.

This volume brings together researchers from throughout the world to assess recent progress in the field of electronic structure methodology, focusing upon ab initio and density functional developments, and to discuss future direction. This publication will impact a number of fields including computational chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. It will help to provide a closer commonality of ab initio and density functional approaches, as it brings together
many of the top senior and junior scientists in both fields to address a common problem: high accuracy modeling of larger chemical systems.

Preface ; 1. Explicityly Correlated Basis Functions for Large Molecules ; 2. Uniform Density Limit of Exchange-Correlation Energy Functionals ; 3. Self-Consistent Hartree-Fock-Wigner Calculations: A Two-Electron-Density Functinoal Theory ; 4. New Alternatives for Accurate Electronic Structure Calculations of Potential Energy Surfaces Involving Bond Breaking ; 5. Bond Breaking in Quantum Chemistry: A Comparison of Single- and Mulit-Reference Methods ; 6. Breaking the Curse of the Non-Dynamical Correlation Problem: the Spin-Flip Method ; 7. Economical Description of Electron Correlation ; 8. Correlation Consistent Basis Sets with Relativistic Effective Core Potentials: The Transition Metal Elements Y and Hg ; 9. Multilevel Methods for Thermochemistry and Thermochemical Kinetics ; 10. A Nonlocal Energy Functional Derived from the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem ; 11. The Protonation Site of Aniline Revisited: A "Torture Test" for Electron Correlation Methods ; 12. Equilibrium Structure of the Silicon Trimer ; Author Index ; Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.5.2008
Reihe/Serie	ACS Symposium Series ; 958
Zusatzinfo	110 line illustrations and 12 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	504 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Organische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
ISBN-10	0-8412-3843-X / 084123843X
ISBN-13	978-0-8412-3843-5 / 9780841238435
Zustand	Neuware