INORWednesday, March 28, 2007

1:30 PM-5:30 PM McCormick Place Lakeside -- Room E253B, Level 2, Oral
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Organizer:Debbie C Crans
Presiding:Aurora Clark
1:30 PMTight binding-configuration interaction (TBCI): A non-iterative method to incorporate charges into tight binding
Mark A. Iron, Grazyna Staszewska, Nathan E. Schultz, Thomas J. Preston, Donald G. Truhlar
1:50 PMUnderstanding nonplanarity in metallabenzenes
Jun Zhu, Guochen Jia, Zhenyang Lin
2:10 PMExtreme "inner polarization" effects in high-oxidation state 2nd-row compounds: The d orbitals strike back
Jan ML. Martin
2:30 PMTheoretical investigation of feeble transition metal - arene interactions in the ArMMAr (M = Cr, Co, Fe; Ar = terphenyl) species bearing bulky aryl ligands: Direct impact on the structural trends in the CMMC cores
Marcin Brynda, Andrew D. Sutton, Philip P. Power, Giovanni La Macchia, Laura Gagliardi
2:50 PMBader's analysis of transition state complexes in C-H bond activation chemistry
Benjamin A. Vastine, Michael B. Hall
3:10 PMPt(II) metal complex uptake by PAMAM dendrimers: A computational study
Francisco Tarazona-Vasquez, Perla B. Balbuena
3:30 PMTheoretical investigation of methanol oxidation to formaldehyde on isolated vanadate species supported on silica
Alexis T. Bell, Anthony Goodrow
3:50 PMSpin acceleration of oxidative dehydrogenation of propane on supported vanadium oxide catalysts
S. A. Zygmunt, J. W. Friedhoff, Paul C Redfern, Peter Zapol, Michael Sternberg, S. P. Adiga, L. A. Curtiss
4:10 PMComputational search for paramagnetic NMR parameters in transition metal complexes
Randolf Kohn
4:30 PMMore QR-SCMEH-MO calculations on diatomic transition metals "f" orbital systems- U2 and Nd2 molecules
Edward A. Boudreaux Sr., Eric,C Baxter
4:50 PMUO22+ hydration by DFT and MD simulation: Investigating the chemistry behind the success and failure of differing interatomic potentials
Aurora Clark
5:10 PMAb initio calculations on systems relevant for the chemistry of the atmosphere
Marzio Rosi, Giulia de Petris, Anna Troiani

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry -- Next Session

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The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007