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L. Agwaramgbo, E. Agwaramgbo, H. Ahmed, J. Leszczynski Theoretical Study of the Effect of Substituents on the Hydrolysis of Methylbenzoates and the Deprotonation of their Corresponding Acids
L. Agwaramgbo, E. Agwaramgbo, I. Yanov, J. Leszczynski An ab Initio Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Hydroxy Benzoic Acids
L. Agwaramgbo, E. Agwaramgbo, I. Yanov, J. Leszczynski Ab Initio Study of the Stabilization of Anions by Alpha Trimethyl-Silyl and Phenyl Groups
L. Agwaramgbo, H. Ahmed, J. Leszczynski Structure and Substituent Effects in the Stabilization of Cations: Implications to Substitution Reactions
L. Agwaramgbo, S. Jones, F. Shaw, C. Agwaramgbo, H. Ahmed, J. Leszczynski, I. Yanov The Continuing Saga of Beta-Silyl Cations: Can Theoretical Calculations Provide a New Paradigm?
M.L. Bagwell, K.E. Hand, D.H. Magers Searches on the Potential Energy Surfaces of BAsH2 and GaNH2
J. Baker and P. Pulay

Efficient Geometry Optimization of Molecular Clusters

J. Baker and P. Pulay Ab initio Quantum Chemistry and PC-Based Parallel Supercomputers
W. Bartkowiak, T. Misiaszek Solvent Effect on Static Vibrational and Electronic Contribution of First Order Hyperpolarizability of pi-Conjugated Push-Pull Molecules. Quantum-Chemical Calculations
A. K. Bhattacharjee Assessment of Cation-pi Binding Affinity of the Aromatic Ring in Several Chloroquine Analogs Using ab Initio Quantum Chemical (6-31G**) Method
A. Blue, R. Jaffe Nanotube Tip Functionalization Calculation
C.A. Blumenberg and S.M. Black Theoretical Study of the Structure of Urea System
J. Boatz and D. L. Thompson

Bond Dissociation Energies of Energetic Compounds:      A Comparison of Theoretical Methods

A. I. Boldyrev* and L.-S. Wang Theoretical Design and Experimental Making of New Tetracoordinate Planar Carbon Molecules
A. J. Boone, N. GJ Richards Calculating Spin Properties of Nitrile Hydratase Model Fe(III) Complexes
E. A. Boudreaux SCMEH-MO Calculations on the Cr2 Molecule
J.V. Burda, M. Zeizinger, J. Sponer, J. Leszczynski Hydration of cis and transplatin. A Pseudopotential Treatment of the Frame of a G3-like Theory for Platinum Complexes
D. Cain, H. Billings, Jr., D.M. Pawar, E.A. Noe 1,3-Oxygen-to-Oxygen Rearrangements in Methyl Formate and Trifluoromethyl Formate
A. A. Cargill, Jr., Y. Podolyan, and M. S. Reeves Transition States for the Reaction of Phenol with Formaldehyde:  An ab Initio Study
C. Capelli, S. Corni, R. Cammi, B. Mennucci, J. Tomasi Calculation of Vibrational Spectra in Solution: a Non-Equilibrium Solvation Formulation within the Polarizable Continuum Model
B. Champagne* Theoretical Approach to the Design of Organic Molecular and Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials
L. Claes, M.S. Deleuze, J.-P. Francois Molecular Mechanics Study of the Conformational Requirements in the Internal Elimination Reaction Leading to Conducting Polymers
Y. Chen, D. Close Model Calculations of Radiation Induced Damage in 1-MethylThymine:9-EthylAdenine
K. Cochran, G. Hill, L. Gorb, J. Leszczynski Interactions of (H2O)n (n=1-6) Clusters and Platinum in Cisplatin and Transplatin
W. Collier, S. Saebo, and B.C. Lynn, Jr. Ab Initio Investigation of the Anomalous Tandem Mass Spectrum of n-Butylbenzene
R.D. Daniel and J. Watts Computational Investigations of the Peroxynitrile Anion (ONOO-) and Peroxynitrous Acid (HONOO). Thermochemistry, Activated Intermediates, and Excited States
Y. Daoudi, P.J. Bonifassi Calculations of First Order Hyperpolarizabilities beta for Diaminodicyanoquinoidal Structures with Quantum Chemistry Programs: MOPAC93 (TDHF) and MOPAC (version 6)
I. Diaz-Acosta, J. Baker and P. Pulay Structure and Vibrational Spectra of neutral metal tris-acetylacetonates. Theory and Experiment.
H. Dodziuk, J. Leszczynski, K. Jackowski Quantum Chemical Study of Spiropentane, Spiropentene and Spiropentadiene
H. Dodziuk and O. Lukin A Molecular Dynamics Study in Water of Chiral Recognition of Enantiomeric alpha-Pinenes by alpha-Cyclodextrin
O. Dolgounitcheva, V. G. Zakrzewski, and J. V. Ortiz Electron Propagator Ionization Energies of Thymine and Other Methyl Uracils
A. Famulari, F. Moroni, M. Raimondi Ab Initio Study on the Crystallographic Solvation Pattern of the Cytosine-Guanine Base Pair in DNA
A. Famulari, R. Martinazzo, F. Moroni, M. Raimondi, T. Thorsteinsson The Structure of Lithium and Potassium Cations Coordinated by Ammonia Molecules in the Gas Phase as Revealed by ab Initio SCF-MI Calculations
A. M. Ferreira and J. V. Ortiz Analysis and Applications of Quasi-particle Approximations in Electron Propagator Theory: Ionization Potentials
E.W. Fisher, A. Rojnuckarin, and S. Kim Kinetic Effects of Mutations of Charged Residues in the Subunit Interface of Dimeric Hemoglobin: Insights from Brownian Dynamics Simulations
G.K. Forde, L. Slater, G. Hill, J. Leszczynski An ab Initio Study on Methylation of Guanine (G), Cytosine (C), and GC Base Pair
M. Fuxreiter, N. Luo, P. Jedlovszky, and R. Osman Role of Base Flipping in Specific Recognition of Damaged DNA by Repair Enzymes
I. Garcia-Cruz, A. Estrada, J. Cruz, L.M.R. Martinez-Aguilera, M. Castro Theoretical Study of the Interaction of an Inhibitor Molecule with an Iron Oxide Surface: the 1-aminoethyl-2-methylimidazoline-Fe2O3 Case
J. Gauss* Coupled-Cluster Treatment of Electronically Excited States
R. W. Gora, W. Batkowiak, and J. Leszczynski Inversion vs. Rotation Mechanism in Diazene. An ab-initio MO Study
R. W. Gora, S. Roszak, I. G. Kaplan, J. Leszczynski Theoretical Studies of the Alkali Earth Metal Clusters
I. Grabowski, S. Ivanov, R. Bartlett Ab Initio DFT - New Orbital Dependent Correlation Potentials in DFT
H. Grebneva Watson and Crick's Hypothesis as Possible Key to Solve the Problems of a Mutagenesis Induced by UV Irradiation of DNA
L. L. Griffin, A. T. Balaban, D. Bonchev, R. E. Garfield, W. A. Seitz Ab Initio SCF and DFT Studies of para-Substituted Cupferron Derivatives
J. Gu and J. Leszczynski Thymine Tetrad and Uracil Tetrad: A Theoretical Study
Guemra. K, Y. Daoudi, A. Zerrouki, P.J. Bonifassi Calculations of First Order Hyperpolarizabilities beta for Azobenzene and Iminobenzene Structures with Quantum Chemistry Programs: MOPAC93 (TDHF) and MOPAC (version6). Donor-Acceptor Effect on the Nonlinear Optical Properties
J.-G. Han, Y.-Y. Shi, F. Hagelberg A Density Functional Theory Investigation of CrSin (n=1-6) Clusters
G. Hill, L. Gorb, J. Leszczynski Cis-Diamminedichloropalladium and its Interaction with Guanine
O. Horton, D.M. Pawar, E.A. Noe Dynamic NMR Study of Trifluorothioacetic Acid
M.-J. Huang and J. Leszczynski Ab Initio Theoretical Studies of the Stereoisomers of Tetrahydrocannabinols
M.M. Hurley, C.F. Chabalowski, Dr. Sorescu, G.L. Lushington Studies of Gun Tube Erosion
M. Ilchenko, L. Gorb, C. McGrath, D. Leszczynska, J. Leszczynski A DFT Investigations of the C6H5NO2...FeO Complex
M. Ilchenko, L. Gorb, C. McGrath, D. Leszczynska, J. Leszczynski Computational Study of Iron Oxide - Explosive Interactions
Y. Ishikawa, Y. Sugita, T. Nishikawa, Y. Okamoto Ab initio replica-exchange Monte Carlo method for cluster studies
M. Kaczorowska, S. Roszak, J. Leszczynski Cluster Ions HN2+(Ar)n (n=1-10): Structures and Properties
M. Kaczorowska, S. Roszak, J. Leszczynski A Theoretical Study of the Structures and Energetics of H3+(Ar)n(H2)m (n+m=1-6) Clusters
I. Kaplan, S. Roszak, and J. Leszczynski Nature of Binding in Clusters with Closed-Subshell Atoms: Alkaline-Earths
J. Karle* Crystals, Free Molecules and Some Aspects of Theoretical Chemistry
R. Khaliullin, and V. Solkan Quantum Chemical Calculations of IR Spectra of Methane in Channels of H-ZSM5 Zeolite within Framework of Simple Electrostatic Model
D. Kheffache, O. Ouamerali A Comparative ab Initio Study of the Properties of the Radical SN
L. Kincaid, M.K. Shukla, J.Leszczynski A DFT Study on Proton Transfer in Allopurinol
M. Kowal, S. Roszak and J. Leszczynski The Influence of the Molecular Charge on Potential Energy Curves for the Proton Transfer in Electronic Ground and Excited States
G. M. Kuramshina Regularized Quantum Mechanical Molecular Force Fields and their Calculations
J.S. Kwiatkowski, J. Majewska, J. Leszczynski, R. Venkatraman Molecular Structure and Vibrational Raman and IR Spectra of Halogenosubstituted Phosphoryl and Thiophosphoryl Compounds: Quantum-Mechanical DFT and post-Hartree-Fock MP2 Calculations
O. Kwon, F. Sevin, and M. L. McKee Density Functional Calculations of Methyllithium, t-Butyllithium, and Phenyllithium Oligomers
R. Lutchyn, V. Spirko, J. Leszczynski Potential Energy Function for Proton Transfer in Formimidol
R. Lutchyn, Y. Zub, L. Gorb, J. Leszczynski Molecular Models of 1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene Sorption on Clay Materials. An ab Initio Quantum Chemical Study
P. Mach, J. Urban, J. Leszczynski An ab initio Study of Electronic Spectra of Merocyanine 540 and its Photoproducts
M. R. Manna The Predissociation Mechanism of the B2A' State of HCO
Y.H. Mariam and R. N. Musin Proton Transfer in Naphthazarin: Does the Potential Energy Surface lead to Transition States with Different Motional Characteristics
L. Meissner A Coupled-Cluster Correction to the Multi-Reference Configuration Interaction Method
D. Moton, D.M. Pawar, E.A. Noe Conformational Studies of Trihalomethyl Formates by Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations
R.N. Musin and Y. H. Mariam Topological Analysis of the Electronic Charge Density to study the Chemical Reactivity of Multiply-bonded Reactive Intermediates containing Silanimine (Si=N), Silaethylene (Si=C), Formaldimine (C=N) and Ethylene (C=C) Groups.
I. Ohmine* Water Dynamic: Fluctuation and Relaxation, Chemical Reactions
B. Ojo, F. Hagelberg, C. Xiao, L. Kincaid, and J. Leszczynski Cocaine Abuse Treatment Agents: Theoretical Study of Methylphenidate analogs using ab initio and semi-empirical molecular orbital calculations.
S. Okovytyy, L. Agwaramgbo, S.M. Jones, J. Leszczynski Regio-Chemical Aspects of the Reactions of alpha beta-Epoxysilanes with Nucleophiles in Basic Medium. An ab Initio Study
S. Okovytyy, L. Gorb, J. Leszczynski Symmetrical vs. Diradical Unsymmetrical Transition Structure for the Epoxidation of Alkenes by Peroxy Acids. High-Level ab Initio Study
S. Okovytyy, L. Gorb, D. Leszczynska, J. Leszczynski A CASSCF Study of the Mechanism for Unimolecular Decomposition of RDX (Hexahydro-1,3,5,-Trinitro-1,3,5-Triazine)
S.I. Okovytyy, H.L. Platicina, Y.A. Seredyuk, L.I. Kasyan Theoretical Investigations of the Acid-Catalyzed Methanolysis Reaction of Epoxycycloalkanes and Epoxymethylenecycloalkanes
I. Orton, A. Jabalameli, A. Isaaca, A. Nowek, R.H. Sullivan Quantum Mechanical Studies on Molecular Structure and Stability of Biuret, Thio-, and Dithiobiuret
I. Orton, A. Jabalameli, A. Isaaca, A. Nowek, R.H. Sullivan Quantum Mechanical Study on Carbon Monoxide Complexes with Chlorine Bromide
D. Osborne, D.H. Magers Ring Strain in Derivatives of Oxaziridine
I. Ovcharenko, W.A. Lester Diffusion Monte Carlo Study of Small Cu-Doped Silicon Clusters
M. Parinello Role and Perspectives of ab Initio Molecular Dynamics in Physics and Chemistry
J.K. Parker Ab Initio Study of the Reaction of Atomic Aluminum with SF6
A. Pelmeschikov, L.G.M. Patterson, J. Leszczynski A New Mechanism of Silicia Dissolution: DFT Calculations
Y. Podolyan, L. Gorb, Y. Rubin, J. Leszczynski Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Isolated and Monohydrated 2-Thiocytosine, 5-Azacytosine, and Cytosine Bases
Morgan Ponder, J. Alan Long, Lester M. Williams, Tracy P. Hamilton, Donald D. Muccio Conformational Studies of s-trans Retinoid Model Compounds
M. Qasim, L. Hansen Two Pathways Generated through Approximate Methods: a Mechanic Study of RDX Degradation
R. K. Roy, and K. Hirao A Simple Model to Predict the Preferable Reaction Product from Unsymmetrical Ketones Using Local Hard-Soft Acid-Based Concept
A. Rubina, V.A. Sorokin, Y.V. Rubin, M.K. Shukla, J. Leszczynski Theoretical Investigation of Adenine Tautomer Complexes with Metal Ions
F. Ruette, C. Gonzalez, and M. Sanchez Atomic Orbital Participation on a Chemical Bond through an Energy Partitioning Scheme
A. Sadlej* Let's Do Relativistic: Problems and Possible Solutions for Large Molecules
S. Saebo, P. Pullay A Low-Order Scaling Method for Second Order Moller-Plesset Calculations
E. A. Salter, A. Wierzbicki, N. D. Ledford Stereocontrol in Diene Addition to Z-2-methyl-4-oxo-2-pentenoate
L. Salter, G. Forde, G. Hill, J.Leszczynski An ab Initio Study of Interactions of Cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) and Human Serum Albumin
F. Sevin, M.L. McKee Reactions of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene with Singlet Oxygen
R. Shirsat and J. Leszczynski Ab-Initio Study of Interaction of Chromium (III)+ Ion and Guanine in Nucleic Acid
R.N. Shirsat, V. Spirko, J.Leszczynski Continuum States of the Bifluoride Ion. I. Construction of an Extended Model Potential Surface
O.V. Shishkin, L. Gorb, J. Leszczynski Is Adenine Planar? Post Hartree-Fock ab Initio Investigations
M.K. Shukla, J. Leszczynski Adenine-Uracil Base Pair in Excited States: an ab Initio Study
K. Shuler, and C. E. Dykstra Aggregation of acetylene molecules: structures, energies and dynamics from ab initio and model calculations
V. Solkan and J. Leszczynski From Enzyme Models Towards Artificial Oxygenases. Ab Initio Study of the Iron (III) Hydroperoxide Intermediate in Alkanes Oxidation Catalyzed by Nonheme Iron Center
V. Solkan, V. Kazansky, and J. Leszczynski Ab Initio Study of the Carbenium Ions Generations from Olefins in Anhydrous Hydrofluoric Acid
N. Spackova, J. Sponer Molecular Dynamics of Unusual DNA Molecules: Successes and Failures
V. Spirko* Continuum States of Molecular Complexes
J. E. Sponer, J. Leszczynski, F. Glahe, B. Lippert, and J.Sponer Protonation of Platinated Adenine Nucleobases. Gas Phase vs. Condensed Phasepicture
J. E. Sponer, Z. Sobalik, B. Wicherlova, and J. Leszczynski Coordination of Metal Cations over the Exchange Sites in Zeolites- As Seen from Density Functional Calculations
K. J. Steen, T. Knapstad, L.E. Smith Estimating Descriptor Values on Macroscopic Systems from ab Initio Calculations on Minimal Clusters
A. Tamulis, V. Tamulis, Z. Rinkevicius, J. Tamuliene Ab Initio Quantum Chemical Design of Supermolecule Logical Devices
M. Tobita, S. Hirata, and R. J. Bartlett Implementation of Analytical Energy Gradient Scheme in Gaussian Based Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Crystal Orbital Theory for Two-Dimensional Extended Systems
V.F. Vargaljuk, V.V. Prusenko Research of a Cation Field Influence on Electrochemical Properties of Innersphere Ligands
R. B. Walker, and M.-J. Huang A Mechanistic Study of Oxazolidine Hydrolysis Using Computational Methods
B. Wang, J. Baker, and P. Pulay DFT Implementation of a Gaussian-Weighted Operator for Spin Densities
J. Watts and R.J. Bartlett Reduced-Space Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Methods for Excited States of Molecules
C.A. Weatherford Use of DVR-Finite Element, Space-Time Discretization to Solve the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
A. Wierzbicki, E. A. Salter, J. D. Madura, S. R. Sheff, and J. P. Harrington Molecular Modeling of Structural Hierarchy in Erythrocruoin
R.E.Wyatt* Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics with Trajectories
I. Yanov, J. Leszczynski An ab Initio Quantum Chemical Study of the Molecular Structure, Vibrational and Electronic Spectrum of the Sc3N@C80 Endohedral Complex
K. Yokoyama Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of the Hydrated Electron
C. Xiao and F. Hagelberg Copper-Silicon Interaction in CuSin (n=4-12) Clusters
V. G. Zakrzewski, O. Dolounitcheva, and J. V. Ortiz Electron Attachment to Pyrimidinic Bases: Diffuse and Valence-Bound Anions
N. Zhanpeisov and Jerzy Leszczynski Specific Solvation Effects on the Structures and Properties of One-Electron Oxidized Adenine-Uracil Complexes. A Theoretical ab Initio Study.
N. Zhanpeisov, S Natarajan, and M. Anpo  A Combined Cluster Quantum Chemical MINDO/3 and ab Initio Study on Zinc Phosphate Structures

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