Chemical Methodology

Results for first-row transition metal compounds were obtained from all-electron restricted and unrestricted Kohn-Sham calculations. Only for atoms of fifth or higher periods of the periodic table of the elements we have applied those effective core potentials (ECPs) of the Stuttgart group, which are the standard ECPs in TURBOMOLE for the core electrons. These ECPs account very well for the scalar relativistic effect in heavy-element atoms (126,127). 

The shared-electron number (SEN) method was used for the evaluation of hydrogen bond energies. This method was developed for the evaluation of hydrogen bonds in compounds which cannot be decomposed into two parts such that the decomposition energy can be solely attributed to the broken hydrogen bond. Details of the SEN method are described in Ref. (82). 

Raman intensities were calculated by differentiation of the molecular polarizability with respect to nuclear coordinates. It is often sufficient or desirable to calculate only Raman intensities for selected modes instead of for all 3N - 6 vibrational modes of a large molecule, which can be achieved if the normal modes of the molecule are already known. Therefore, a frequency analysis was performed using numerical differentiation of analytical gradients with respect to Cartesian nuclear coordinates in the first step. This yields vibrational frequencies and normal modes. Then, we used displacements along selected mass-weighted normal coordinates Q/t, for which (static and/or dynamic) polarizabilities are calculated. With a step size SQk, 

Theoretically determined Raman intensities are given in terms of Raman scattering factors Sk for mode k, 

For comparison with experimental data it is more suitable to state relative intensities in terms of differential cross sections, since these are proportional to the relative intensities obtained in the experiment. The Q-branch differential cross section for a scattering angle of 90° and an incident light beam which is plane polarized perpendicular to the scattering plane is 

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Both lines of research are far from being closed and we are confident that their development will contribute useful results. However, without considering future performances I think that it can already be said that it is a good strategy to project the future Quantum Chemical methodology in such a way that the WF is by-passed and the 2-RDM or (better still but more difficult) the l-RDM are directly determined. 

When addressing problems in computational chemistry, the choice of computational scheme depends on the applicability of the method (i.e. the types of atoms and/or molecules, and the type of property, that can be treated satisfactorily) and the size of the system to be investigated. In biochemical applications the method of choice - if we are interested in the dynamics and effects of temperature on an entire protein with, say, 10,000 atoms - will be to run a classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The key problem then becomes that of choosing a relevant force field in which the different atomic interactions are described. If, on the other hand, we are interested in electronic and/or spectroscopic properties or explicit bond breaking and bond formation in an enzymatic active site, we must resort to a quantum chemical methodology in which electrons are treated explicitly. These phenomena are usually highly localized, and thus only involve a small number of chemical groups compared with the complete macromolecule. 

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Danilo Corradini is research director at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and a member of the General Scientific Advisory Board of CNR. His involvement in separation science started in 1976 with his research work on chromatography and electrophoresis for his PhD studies in chemistry, which was carried out at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, under the direction of Michael Lederer, founder and first editor of the Journal of Chromatography. In 1983-1984, he worked with Csaba Horvath, the pioneer of HPLC, at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, where he initiated his first investigations on the HPLC of proteins and peptides, which he continued at the Institute of Chromatography of CNR after he returned to Italy. 

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Carbohydrates and polysaccharides, on the one hand, and peptides and proteins, on the other, have been considered as separate classes of natural products for a long time. Fundamental chemical methodology for the synthesis of both saccharides and peptides was developed by Emil Fischer et al. at the beginning of the 20th century. 1,2 However, the harsh conditions employed in early solution and solid-phase peptide synthesis hindered the combination of peptide and carbohydrate chemistry, i.e. glycopeptide synthesis. Considerable efforts were made to combine the two branches of natural product chemistry, and the state of the art within glycopeptide synthesis has improved dramatically during the last decades, as described in a number of reviews. 3 23,512"514 ... 

Conventional routes to ceramics involve precipitation from solution, drying, size reduction by milling, and fusion. The availability of well-defined mono-dispersed particles in desired sizes is an essential requirement for the formation of advanced ceramics. The relationship between the density of ceramic materials and the sizes and packing of their parent particles has been examined theoretically and modeled experimentally [810]. Colloid and surface chemical methodologies have been developed for the reproducible formation of ceramic particles [809-812]. These methodologies have included (i) controlled precipitation from homogeneous solutions (ii) phase transformation (iii) evaporative deposition and decomposition and (iv) plasma- and laser-induced reactions. 

It is difficult to lay down Arm standards of what is an acceptable uncertainty in a quantum chemical result, since this can vary considerably from case to case. It is part of. the quantum chemist s job to decide how accurately a given result must be obtained for his/her purposes, as we shall discuss in this course. However, the accuracy that can be achieved in principle is limited by several fundamental approximations that are made in deriving conventional quantum chemical methodology, and we begin by considering these approximations. 

Ciyo-SEM methodology also facilitates the observation of highly hydrated systems. Harker and Sutherland [69] used the ability of cryo-SEM to preserve the structural integrity of the aqueous phase to characterize differences between mealy and non-mealy nectarines. The presence of juice on the surface of cells in non-mealy nectarines was observed after tensile tests produced a fractured surface. Such observations would not have been possible with conventional methods where dehydration and critical point drying are essential steps. A strong point to this study was the extensive use of other physical and chemical methodologies to help correlate textural difference based on storage parameters for nectarines. 

Jiri Cizek s research program centers on the quantum theory of molecular electronic structure and related developments in quantum chemical methodology, coupled-cluster approaches to many-electron correlation problems,105 large-order perturbation theory,106 dynamical groups and exactly solvable models, lower bounds, and the use of symbolic computation language in physics and in chemistry. 

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