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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Molecular Modelling - AM402014
Title: Molecular Modelling
Guaranteed by: Department of Analytical Chemistry (402)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's (post-Bachelor)
Guarantor: Bouř Petr prof. RNDr. CSc.
Interchangeability : M402014, N402037
Is interchangeable with: M402014
Annotation -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (24.04.2018)
Students will obtain basic knowledge of quantum-chemical principles, molecular dynamics, and computationas in chemistry, Spectroscopic methods and properties are emphasized, such as NMR and vibrational spectroscopy. The lecture is completed by exercises with computers.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (24.04.2018)

Students will see how a molecular program and quantum chemical program works, will be able to perform basis molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics computations, and will obtain basic knowledge about the Linux operation system.

Literature -
Last update: Bouř Petr prof. RNDr. CSc. (27.05.2019)

Z: P. Bouř, Základy kvantových výpočtů molekul 1997-2018 http://hanicka.uochb.cas.cz/~bour/prednaska/skripta.pdf

Z: manual www.gaussian.com

D: A. Szabo, N. S. Ostlund: Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 1989 (ISBN 0-486-69186-1 or other reprints)

D: P. W. Atkins, R. S. Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005 (ISBN 0-19-927498-3 or other reprints)

D: I. N. Levine, Quantum Chemistry, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2000 (ISBN 0-19-927498-3)

Learning resources -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (24.04.2018)

manual www.gaussian.com

Syllabus -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (24.04.2018)

Overview of ab initio methods useful for computation of molecular properties will be given, with practical examples on computers. The topics include:

1. Classical and quantum concepts of molecular modelling

2. Ab initio methods and the Schrödinger equation

3. Basic axioms of quantum mechanics

4. Prediction of molecule properties from wavefunction

5. Approximate computational approaches in quantum mechanics

6. Density functional methods

7. Electromagnetic molecular properties

8. Energy minimalization, conformer averaging

9. Conformation analysis

10. Simulation of vibrational, optical, and NMR spectral properties

11. Prediction of protein structure, sequence analysis and protein structure

12. Solvent models for quantum computations

13. Applications of molecular modelling to new structural design

Entry requirements -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (24.04.2018)

Basic mathematical and physical knowledge

 
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