Fenske, Richard

Compounds of Rhodium (II) Fenske, Richard F., Molecular Orbital Theory, Chemical Bonding, and 29 73... 

Particular thanks go to those who read over the chapter in draft form Verena Brink, Jean Colley, Darwin H. Stapleton, and Christian Simon. For DDT s effects on public health, I am indebted to Richard Fenske, MD. 

Curl, Cynthia L., Richard A. Fenske, and Kai Elgethun. 2003. Organophosphorus pesticide exposure of urban and suburban preschool children with organic and conventional diets. Environmental Health Perspectives 111(3) 377-382. 

In this contribution, we revisit the so-called Fenske-HaH molecular orbital (MO) method, an approximate self-consistent-held (SCF) ab initio method that contains no empirical parameters, which began almost 40 years ago in the research group of Richard... 

This special issue celebrating 40 years of computational chemistry seems an appropriate venue to revisit the so-called Fenske-HaU molecular orbital (MO) method. This approximate molecular orbital theory had its origins almost exactly 40 years ago when Richard F. Fenske joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thus, the method might be more properly called the Fenske method or the Fenske, Radtke, Caulton, DeKock, Hall method as the early development [1] involved many students in addition to one of the authors above (MBH). The name Fenske-HalF was generated not by the first papers on the development of the method, but by the last paper on its theoretical development [2]. The method is still in use today and has... 

RICHARD A. FENSKE, JOHN T. LEFFINGWELU, and ROBERT C. SPEARS... 

Richard Fenske arrived as Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1961 after having completed his PhD, with Donald Martin at Iowa State University on applying crystal-field theory to square-planar platinum complexes [19]. Fenske was interested in developing a method more closely tied to the ab initio molecular orbital method described so beautifully by Roothaan [20]. Building on some previous suggestions [21], he and his first students, especially Ken Caulton and Doug Radtke, developed an approximate self-consistent field method that had no empirical or adjustable parameters. With some later refinements by this author, the method became widely known as the Fenske-Hall method [22], and in this form it is still being used today [23]. 

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