Chemical modelling: applications and theory volume 1
A Hinchliffe
Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000 Ppvii+505, [pounds sterling]109.50, ISBN 0 85404 254 7
The 1998 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded to Walter Kohn and John Pople, recognised their pioneering research in developing computational methods to study molecular properties and chemical reactions. The subject started in the 1960s, when computers became more widely available. Since then, there has been an explosive growth in papers using theoretical or computational techniques, with applications across all of chemistry. To help cope with this growth in the literature, the Royal …
