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Laboratory Exercises Using HyperChem
Mary L. Caffery, Paul A. Dobosh, and Diane M. Richardson. Hypercube, Inc.: Gainesville, FL, 1998. iii + 249 pp. Figs. and tables. 19 x 23 cm. ISBN 1-896164-30-7. $24.95.
This text provides a thorough and stimulating set of laboratory exercises in molecular modeling, at an intermediate level, specifically aimed at users of HyperChem software. The HyperChem 5 software package has been reviewed recently in J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 416, where W. F. Coleman and C. R. Arumainayagam describe it as "an outstanding computational chemistry program".
Mary L. Caffery and Paul A. Dobosh are faculty members at Clarke College (IA) and Mount Holyoke College (MA). Diane M. Richardson has been a faculty member and a project member of an NSF Regional Molecular Modeling Workshop for College Teachers in Massachusetts, and U.S. Marketing Manager at Hypercube. She is currently Scientific Training Manager at Molecular Applications Group (Palo Alto CA).
Caffery provides some pertinent reflections on molecular modeling across the curriculum, in a significant Foreword to this book. A few brief...