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Many other examples of the Claisen Condensation will be found in textbooks of theoretical organic chemistry. 

Thus by 1895, the German chemist, Lothar Meyer, would conclude the short version of his textbook of theoretical chemistry with the observation that ... 

As it is usually presented in textbooks of theoretical chemistry, the Bom Oppenheimer approximation plays just such a role. It is usually given a heuristic justification, as in this explanation of how it applies to the hydrogen molecule-ion H2+, which consists of two hydrogen nuclei and one electron ... 

The path of mechanical systems has been described by extremal principles. We emphasize the principles of Fermat Hamilton. The principle of least action is named after Maupertui but this concept is also associated with Leibnitz, Euler, and Jacobi For details, cf. any textbook of theoretical physics, e.g., the book of Lindsay [16, p. 129]. Further, it is interesting to note that the importance of minimal principles has been pointed out in the field of molecular evolution by Davis [17]. So, in his words... 

L. D. Landau, E.M. Lifschitz, Statistical Physics. Textbook of Theoretical Physics, vol. V... 

ThIS pari describes the essentials of IlyperCdieni s theoretical and compiitaiion al chemistry or how IlyperCheni performs chemical calculations that yon request from the Setup and Compute menus. While it has pedagogical value, it isnot a textbook of computational chemistry the discussions are restricted to topics ol imme-diate relevance to IlyperChem only. Xeveriheless, yon can learn much about computational chemistry by reading this manual while using IlyperChem. 

The modern approach to chemical education appears to be strongly biased toward theories, particularly quantum mechanics. Many authors have remarked that classical chemistry and its invaluable predictive rules have been downgraded since chemistry was put into orbit around physics. School and undergraduate courses as well as textbooks show an increasing tendency to begin with the establishment of theoretical concepts such as orbitals and hybridization. There is a continuing debate in the chemical literature on the relative merits of theory as opposed to qualitative or descriptive chemistry 1-6). To quote the late J. J. Zucker-man who supported the latter approach (3). 

The problems which the orbital approximation raises in chemical education have been discussed elsewhere by the author (Scerri [1989], [1991]). Briefly, chemistry textbooks often fail to stress the approximate nature of atomic orbitals and imply that the solution to all difficult chemical problems ultimately lies in quantum mechanics. There has been an increassing tendency for chemical education to be biased towards theories, particularly quantum mechanics. Textbooks show a growing tendency to begin with the establishment of theoretical concepts such as atomic orbitals. Only recently has a reaction begun to take place, with a call for more qualitatively based courses and texts (Zuckermann [1986]). A careful consideration of the orbital model would therefore have consequences for chemical education and would clarify the status of various approximate theories purporting to be based on quantum mechanics. 

The theoretical and methodological aspects of conformational analysis of macromolecular chains in the disordered state were discussed by Flory in his classic book (155, 187). The literature on the subject includes a large number of books and reviews (37, 39, 188-190) extensive discussions may also be found in general textbooks of macromolecular science (9, 12, 13, 191). 

Only a couple of weeks later, the first two of a large number of other researchers, J.F. Norris and W.W. Sanders, made their views on Gomberg s discovery public," and Gomberg soon found himself embroiled in a lively discussion of his proposal. Over a period of 15 years, he published some 30 papers in defense of the free radical concept, and in the end it prevailed. He has since been quoted as the discoverer of the first free radical in almost every textbook of organic chemistry and, in retrospect, one can see this discovery as one of the most important in 20th century chemistry, theoretically as well as practically. 

Farrington Daniels, who built a strong foundation for physical chemistry instruction with his seminal textbooks, sets out the challenge clearly in his 1931 preface to Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry. 

The handbooks cited are almost exclusively the two best known English works Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, edited by J. N. Friend and the monumental Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry of J. W. Mellor. Occasionally other handbooks are cited, especially in connection with topics not as yet covered by the two already mentioned. Instructors in charge of graduate courses may prefer to direct their students to some of the well-known German works of the same type. 

Until recently only a handful of main group elements — carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur — were known to be able to form stable (p-p)rc bonds. The complete lack of such bonds in compounds of the heavier elements had been rationalized by theoretical treatments by Pitzer u and Mulliken 2). Indeed, many commonly used textbooks of inorganic chemistry contain statements such as,. . p-p-n bonding is of little importance in the third and higher period elements,3). 

The following definition of computational chemistry was published in 1985 (6) quantitative modeling of chemical behavior on a computer by the formalisms of theoretical chemistry. Some quantum theoreticians naturally would like to see computational chemistry as a subset of their field (7). However, today the number of scientists employed as computational chemists well exceeds the number employed as theoreticians (8). A recent textbook author (9) views computational chemistry as encompassing not only quantum mechanics, but also molecular mechanics, [energy] minimization, simulations, conformational analysis, and other computer-based methods for understanding and predicting the behavior of molecular systems. ... 

Excellent column efficiency delivered by a large number of theoretical plates (low plate height of about 0.005 mm) is theoretically deduced from the Van Deemter equation which predicts that use of sub 2.5 pm particles does not diminish efficiency at increased flow rates (increased speed of analysis). For more details the reader is referred to general textbooks on chromatography. Therefore, shorter columns (15— 50 and 2.1 mm I.D.) provide sufficient resolution and improved sensitivity within run times of only a few minutes or less. 

There are several problems in the physics of quantum systems whose importance is attested to by the time and effort that have been expended in search of their solutions. A class of such problems involves the treatment of interparticle correlations with the electron gas in an atom, a molecule (cluster) or a solid having attracted significant attention by quantum chemists and solid-state physicists. This has led to the development of a large number of theoretical frameworks with associated computational procedures for the study of this problem. Among others, one can mention the local-density approximation (LDA) to density functional theory (DFT) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], the various forms of the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation, 2, 6, 7], the so-called GW approximation, 9, 10], and methods based on the direct study of two-particle quantities[ll, 12, 13], such as two-particle reduced density matrices[14, 15, 16, 17, 18], and the closely related theory of geminals[17, 18, 19, 20], and configuration interactions (Cl s)[21]. These methods, and many of their generalizations and improvements[22, 23, 24] have been discussed in a number of review articles and textbooks[2, 3, 25, 26]. 

Geoffroy s table was important, but it did not have many successors in the first half of the eighteenth century. There was one in 1730 and another in 1749. Perhaps French reluctance to identify rapports with attractions lay behind this lukewarm response. The second half of the century, however, saw a resurgence of interest in affinity tables, stimulated by an extremely influential textbook of 1749, Pierre Joseph Macquer s Elements of Theoretical Chemistry, which devoted a whole chapter to affinities ... 

Existing books on this subject are mostly textbooks for advanced readers, proceedings of conferences, or edited collections of reviews written by several authors on selected special topics. These are mainly profitable for readers who already have some experience with the ab initio calculations. Our approach is different. We attempted a book which would be a practical handbook for those who are going to start their ab initio calculations. It is hoped that it permits answers to be found readily to the most common questions put to us by students and colleagues from other branches of theoretical chemistry. Ideally, our aim was to write such a book which would have been helpful for us in our first own ab initio calculations. Our intention is to deal sole ly with the problems specific for ab initio calculations. We expect... 

The necessity of considering chemical reactions that proceed at finite rates distinguishes combustion theory from other extensions of fluid dynamics. Concepts of chemical kinetics therefore comprise an integral part of the subject. The phenomenological laws for rates of chemical reactions are presented in Section B.l. Various mechanisms for chemical reactions are considered in Section B.2, which includes discussion of recent work in explosion theory. This section contains material specifically related to combustion that is seldom found in basic texts on chemical kinetics. Theoretical predictions of reaction-rate functions for homogeneous and heterogeneous processes are addressed in Sections B.3 and B.4, respectively. References [1]-[4] are textbooks of a basic nature on chemical kinetics [5]-[12] contain, in addition, material more directly applicable in combustion,... 

As a consequence of the significance of the XPS in the investigation of the electronic stmcture of molecules and solids, the theoretical model calculations of photoionization spectra became an important area of quantum chemistry [30-35]. One possible way of description of the photoionization process is the perturbation theory. The description of the model would exceed the limits of this paper, so we refer to the textbook of Fulde [36] for the details of the formalism and the applied terminology. In this model the excitations are given by the poles of the Green s matrix Gw(w), i- e. by... 

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