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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 20 Jan, 2025

End Date : 11 Apr, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 27 Jan, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 26 Apr, 2025

Other

End Date : 14 Feb, 2025

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

The Syllabus

  • Why computational chemistry?
  • Recapitulation of the basics of quantum mechanics and introduction to ORCA program package
  • Installing ORCA and running your first calculations

  • Hartree-Fock Approximation and Basis Set
  • Open-Shell Systems and Spin
  • Installing Avogadro, Visualization of orbital and population

  • Electron Correlation, MP2 and Coupled Cluster
  • Lower scaling approximation
  • Localized orbital based method

  • Geometry Optimization
  • Finding transition states
  • Conformational search and surface scan

  • Density Functional Theory
  • Various DFT functional and converging difficult calculations
  • Conceptual DFT and Reactivity

  • Semi-empirical methods
  • Environmental Effect, implicit and explicit solvation
  • Relativistic effect and spin-orbit coupling

  • Basis set incompleteness error and counterpoise correction
  • Vibrational spectroscopy, IR, and Raman spectra
  • Visualization of vibrational modes

  • Excited State and UV-Vis Spectroscopy
  • Visualizing excited state, difference density, and natural transition orbital
  • X-ray spectroscopy

  • Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • Predicting EPR

  • Molecular Mechanism
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  • Multiscale-Simulation QM/MM

  • Multi-reference method CASSCF:
  • Choosing an appropriate active space
  • Perturbational and CI correction

  • Energy decomposition analysis
  • Beyond Born-Oppenheimer approximations
  • Understanding the pitfalls of the calculations

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