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

    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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