Course Description

CH604: Quantum Chemistry II

This course presents molecular spectroscopy and modern quantum chemistry with main emphases on the understanding of modern electronic structure calculations.

Topics include: Brief review of rudimentary quantum mechanics, atomic spectra, rovibronic spectra of diatomic molecules, rovibronic spectra of polyatomic molecules, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, modern spectroscopy, ab initio MO calculations and semi-empirical MO calculations.