Electronic structure and properties of transition metal compounds: introduction to the theory

The first edition of this book under the same title authored by I. B. Bersuker was published by Wiley in 1996, written in 1994. It elegantly emphasized thetheory underlying the electronic structure and properties of transition metalcompounds. This new edition, coauthored with Professor Charles Dismukes of Princeton University, will incorporate many of the new developments since that time, especially those that have occurred in computational chemistry, namely, density functional theory, and applications in important areas such as solid state chemistry, materials science, bioinorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and catalysis. New features of the second edition include: taking into account the novel achievements in this field for the last 12 years by renewal and reformulation of corresponding parts of the book; making the book more accessible as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students by meansof adding summaries, questions, exercises, problems, examples, and illustrations to Chs. 2-10; elimination of obsolete material; novel methods of electronic structure calculation including DFT and ab initio, as well as cluster approaches to metallobiochemical systems (MBS) and local properties in crystals willbe added; more reformulations and novel examples including metallobiochemicalsystems will be included, as well as discussion of femtosecond and gamma-resonance spectroscopy. The total changes in the second edition as compared with the first is expected to be between 30% and 40%.Professor Isaac B. Bersuker is Adjunct Professor at the Insitute of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the Leningrad University in 1957 and 1954, respectively. He is the winner of numerous awards including David Ben Gurion medal, Israel (2005); Chugaev medal, Russian Academy of Sciences (2005); ‘Order of Honour’, Republic of Moldova (2004); Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (former USSR) (1989); State Prize Laureat (USSR) (1979); Scientific Discovery, USSR (1978). G. Charles Dismukes is Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and affiliated member of the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials. He received a BS in chemistry from the Lowell Technological Institute, a PhD in chemistry from the Universityof Wisconsin in Madison with John Willard, and did postdoctoral work in the Calvin Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley with Kenneth Sauer and Melvin Klein. His honors include: G. D. Searle Scholars Award, Alfred P.Sloane Award, Squibb Institute Fellowship, DuPont Young Faculty Award, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, Monbusho Lecturer (Japan), National Research Council Fellowship, NRSA Senior International Fellow, CNRS Fellowship (France), the Lemberg Fellowship (Australia).

• ISBN: 978-0-470-18023-5
• Editorial: Wiley
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 759
• Fecha Publicación: 07/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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