Book description
Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our
ability to computationally evaluate the electronic structure of
inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This
advancement is due to the Moore's Law increase in computing power as
well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT) and its
implementation in commercial and freeware programs for quantum chemical
calculations. Improved pure and hybrid density functionals are allowing
DFT calculations with accuracy comparable to high-level Hartree-Fock
treatments, and the results of these calculations can now be evaluated
by experiment.
When calculations are correlated to, and supported by, experimental
data they can provide fundamental insight into electronic structure
and its contributions to physical properties and chemical reactivity.
This interplay continues to expand and contributes to both improved
value of experimental results and improved accuracy of computational predictions.
The purpose of this EIC Book is to provide state-of-the-art
presentations of quantum mechanical and related methods and their
applications, written by many of the leaders in the field. Part 1 of
this volume focuses on methods, their background and implementation,
and their use in describing bonding properties, energies, transition
states and spectroscopic features. Part 2 focuses on applications in
bioinorganic chemistry and Part 3 discusses inorganic chemistry, where
electronic structure calculations have already had a major impact.
This addition to the EIC Book series is of significant value to both
experimentalists and theoreticians, and we anticipate that it will
stimulate both further development of the methodology and its
applications in the many interdisciplinary fields that comprise modern
inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.
This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of
Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set.
This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to
2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic
chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry.
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