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Non-covalent Interactions in Quantum Chemistry and Physics

Theory and Applications

  • 1st Edition - June 13, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alberto Otero de la Roza, Gino A. DiLabio
  • Language: English

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Description

Non-covalent Interactions in Quantum Chemistry and Physics: Theory and Applications provides an entry point for newcomers and a standard reference for researchers publishing in the area of non-covalent interactions. Written by the leading experts in this field, the book enables experienced researchers to keep up with the most recent developments, emerging methods, and relevant applications.

The book gives a comprehensive, in-depth overview of the available quantum-chemistry methods for intermolecular interactions and details the most relevant fields of application for those techniques. Theory and applications are put side-by-side, which allows the reader to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of different computational techniques.

Key features

  • Summarizes the state-of-the-art in the computational intermolecular interactions field in a comprehensive work
  • Introduces students and researchers from related fields to the topic of computational non-covalent interactions, providing a single unified source of information
  • Presents the theoretical foundations of current quantum mechanical methods alongside a collection of examples on how they can be applied to solve practical problems

Readership

Chemistry and physics researchers at advanced undergraduate, graduate, and researcher level in both industry and academia that are interested in the computational modelling of processes involving intermolecular interactions. Also, researchers in related fields that use density-functional theory to study processes of chemical, biological, and technological relevance.

Table of contents

Foreword
Axel D. Becke

Part I: Theory

1. Physical Basis of Intermolecular Interactions
Anthony J. Stone

2. Energy Partition Analyses: Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory and Other Techniques
E. Francisco and A. Martin Pendas

3. Intermolecular Interaction Energies from Kohn-Sham Random Phase Approximation Correlation Methods
Andreas Heßelmann

4. Wavefunction Theory Approaches to Non-covalent Interactions
C. David Sherrill

5. The Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Dispersion Model
Erin R. Johnson

6. A Comprehensive Overview of the DFT-D3 London-Dispersion Correction
Lars Goerigk

7. Atom-centered Potentials for Non-covalent Interactions and Other Applications
Gino A. DiLabio

8. The vdW-DF Family of Non-Local Exchange-Correlation Functionals
Elsebeth Schroder, Valentino R. Cooper, Kristian Berland, Bengt I. Lundqvist, Per Hyldgaard, and Timo Thonhauser

Part II: Applications

9. Non-covalent Interactions in Organic Electronic Materials
Mahesh Kumar Ravva, Chad Risko, and Jean-Luc Bredas

10. Non-covalent Interactions in Molecular Crystals
Gregory J. O. Beran, Yonaton N. Heit, and Joshua D. Hartman

11. Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction
Sarah L. Price and Jan Gerit Brandenburg

12. Non-covalent Interactions and Environment Effects
Benedetta Mennucci

13. Surface Adsorption
Jeffrey R. Reimers, Musen Li, Dongya Wan, Tim Gould, and Michael J. Ford

14. Non-covalent Interactions in Nanotechnology
Valentino R. Cooper, Christopher N. Lam, Yangyang Wang, and Bobby G. Sumpter

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 15, 2017
  • Language: English

About the editors

AO

Alberto Otero de la Roza

Dr. Alberto Otero de la Roza received his Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2011 and has since been working on developing and applying quantum chemical methods to the calculation of non-covalent interactions in chemical systems. With a record of recent activity in the field (30 articles on the topic, including one comprehensive review), Dr. Otero de la Roza is an expert in the development and application of computational methods for non-covalent interactions.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada

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Gino A. DiLabio

Professor Gino A. DiLabio has been the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia since 2014. Prior to joining UBC, he spent a decade at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (Canada) as a senior research scientist and most recently as an associate director. He has guided the development of the dispersion-correcting potential approach to improving the ability of density-functional theory (DFT) to predict non-covalent interactions. Of his more than 120 papers, ca. 40 of them have been on the development and application of dispersion-corrected DFT and one book chapter on the topic. He also has a patent based on the non-covalent interactions in asphaltenic species.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, Okanagan National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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