This repository contains notes on a selection of quantum chemistry (and related theory) literature. The class discussions are summarized in this repository's Wiki. The repo also includes a collection of BibTeX files that have been prepared by students in the class that provide individual annotated bibliographies.
The list below tabulates the set of papers discussed by the class, the lead presenter, and the assigned scribe. The lead presenter provides the first draft Wiki entry and presents that perspective to the class to initialize group discussion. The scribe takes care to appropriately modify the draft Wiki entry to fully capture the class's discussion of the paper.
- J. A. Pople, "Quantum Chemical Models (Nobel Lecture)", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38, 1894–1902 (1999). DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990712)38:13/14<1894::AID-ANIE1894>3.0.CO;2-H.
- Lead Presenter: H. Harb
- E. R. Davidson, "The Right Answer for the Right Reason: My Personal Goal for Quantum Chemistry", Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 70, 1-20 (2019). DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-042018-052300.
- Lead Presenter: R. Leano
- K. Raghavachari and J. B. Anderson, "Electron Correlation Effects in Molecules", J. Phys. Chem. 100, 12960–12973 (1996). DOI: 10.1021/jp953749i.
- Lead Presenter: A. Abou Taka
- J. Martin, J. Baker, and P. Pulay,"Comments on the molecular geometry of ferrocene: The dangers of using quantum chemistry programs as black boxes", J. Comp. Chem. 30, 881-883 (2009). DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21106.
- Lead Presenter: TBD
- J. Almlöf, K. Faegri, and K. Korsell, "Principles for a direct SCF approach to LICAO–MOab‐initio calculations", J. Comput. Chem. 3, 385–399 (1982). DOI: 10.1002/jcc.540030314
- Lead Presenter: TBD
- P. D. Jarowski, M. D. Wodrich, C. S. Wannere, P. v R. Schleyer, and K. N. Houk "How Large Is the Conjugative Stabilization of Diynes?” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 15036-15037 (2004). DOI: 10.1021/ja046432h
- Lead Presenter: TBD
- Steven E. Wheeler, “Homodesmotic reactions for thermochemistry”, WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 2, 204-220 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/wcms.72
- Lead Presenter: TBD
- Steven E. Wheeler, Kendall N. Houk, Paul v. R. Schleyer, and Wesley D. Allen, “A hierarchy of homodesmotic reactions for thermochemistry”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 2547-2560 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/ja805843n
- Lead Presenter: TBD
- Wei Deng, James R. Cheeseman, and Michael J. Frisch, “Calculation of nuclear spin-spin coupling constants of molecules with first and second row atoms in study of basis set dependence”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2, 1028-1037 (2006). DOI: 10.1021/ct600110u
- Lead Presenter: TBD