Molecular Structure Understanding Steric and Electronic Effects from Molecular Mechanics

Written by a founding father of computational chemistry, Structure and Properties of Organic Molecules provides organic, physical, computational, pharmaceutical/medicinal, and polymer chemists with a strong understanding of the structure and properties of organic molecules by bringing together the computational methods and the experimental methods commonly used for studies of molecular structure. Both a useful text and self-teaching guide, coverage includes experimental structures from electron, neutron, X-ray diffraction, microwave spectroscopy, and computational structures, ab initio, semi-emperitcal molecular orbital, and molecular mechanics calculations.

Norman L. Allinger received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1951 and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1954. He was on the faculty at Wayne State University before coming to the University of Georgia as Research Professor in 1969. He is known for his use of computational chemistry, especially molecular mechanics, to solve a variety of chemical problems. He is the senior author of the MM2, MM3, and MM4 molecular mechanics software packages.