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A Laboratory Book of Computational Organic Chemistry
Warren J. Hehre, Alan J. Shusterman, W. Wayne Huang. Wavefunction: Irvine, CA, 1996. ISBN 0 9643495-5-8. $25.00.
This book is the latest in a series of publications from Wavefunction designed to make computational chemistry a more important facet of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. The book begins with a clear and concise introduction to computational methods for the student and is followed by 15 essays covering different problems that can be addressed using computational chemistry. Each essay serves as the lead-in to a series of "experiments" that are illustrations of such chemical problems.
Unlike most lab manuals, this laboratory book is not written in a cookbook fashion. The authors' stated goal is to "create `modeling-literate' organic chemists". To this end, they have avoided the temptation to tell...