THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY PART A

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in CHEMISTRY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2022/2023
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2023/2024
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Credits: 
4
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
32
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (32 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Molecular Hamiltonian operators; classical Hamiltonian; Hamiltonian in the laboratory and internal coordinate systems. Born Oppenheimer approximation. Potential energy surfaces. Jahn Teller and Renner Teller effects. Diabatic corrections. (6h)
Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock-Roothaan methods. (2h)
Electronic correlations (4h). Configuration interaction and coupled cluster methods (4h). MC-SCF and UHF methods (4h). Density matrices (2h). Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (Mod. A, 4h). Valence Bond and Spin-Coupled methods. Covalent structures and the Perfect-Pairing approximation; hybrid orbitals. Ionic configurations and polarized orbitals (3h). Theory of chemical reactivity (3h).

Molecular Hamiltonian operators; classical Hamiltonian; Hamiltonian in the laboratory and internal coordinate systems. Born Oppenheimer approximation. Potential energy surfaces. Jahn Teller and Renner Teller effects. Diabatic corrections. (6h)
Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock-Roothaan methods. (2h)
Electronic correlations (4h). Configuration interaction and coupled cluster methods (4h). MC-SCF and UHF methods (4h). Density matrices (2h). Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (Mod. A, 4h). Valence Bond and Spin-Coupled methods. Covalent structures and the Perfect-Pairing approximation; hybrid orbitals. Ionic configurations and polarized orbitals (3h). Theory of chemical reactivity (3h).

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