Advances in Quantum Chemistry: Volume 62(Volume 62 Advances in Quantum Chemistry)

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It features detailed reviews written by leading international researchers. This series provides a one-stop resource for following progress in this interdisciplinary area.

Table of Contents:
1. Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics of Radiation-Induced Intermolecular Forces - A Salam 2. State- And Property-Specific Quantum Chemistry, - Cleanthes A. Nicolaides 3. Ab initio Electron Propagator Calculations on Electron Detachment Energies of Fullerenes, Macrocyclic Molecules and Nucleotide Fragments - Viatcheslav G. Zakrzewski, Olga Dolgounitcheva, Alexander V. Zakjevskii and J. V. Ortiz 4. Rotations of Asymmetric Molecules and the Hydrogen Atom in Free and Confined Configurations - Ricardo Mendez-Fragosoa, Eugenio Ley-Koo 5. Mean Excitation Energies for Biomolecules: Glycine to DNA - Stephan P. A. Sauer, Jens Oddershede, and John R. Sabin 6. High-Resolution Signal Processing in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Early Cancer Diagnostics - Dˇzevad Belki´c and Karen Belki´

About the Author :
I was born in Springfield, Mass, and Educated at Williams College (BA) and the University of New Hampshire (PhD). Following that, I was a postdoctoral at Uppsala University in Sweden, and at Northwestern University in Evanston. For the past four decades, I have worked in the Quantum Theory Project, Department of Physics, at the University of Florida. My interests have always been in the theory of molecular electronic structure. More recently, I have been working on the interaction of fast particles, mostly protons and alpha particles, with proto-biological molecules, in terms of the transfer of energy from the projectile to the molecular target, and the outcome of that energy transfer. Such energy transfer is primarily electronic, and the initial electronic excitation results in target electronic and vibrational excitation, ionization, fragmentation, charge exchange, and other processes. The study of these processes, known as stopping power, has applications in fields from microelectronics to tumor therapy. The investigations are interesting and continue.