Computational Chemistry

ISBN: 0198755503

Author: Jeremy Harvey

The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous, yet accessible, treatment of each subject area is ideal for those wanting a primer in a given topic to prepare them for more advanced study orresearch.Computational Chemistry provides a user-friendly introduction to this powerful way of characterizing and modelling chemical systems. This primer provides the perfect introduction to the subject, leading the reader through thebasic principles before showing a variety of ways in which computational chemistry is applied in practice to study real molecules, all illustrated by frequent examples.