James Foresman

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Email: jforesman@ycp.edu
Website: goose.ycp.edu/~jforesma/

Professor of Chemistry, York College (York, PA)
Ph.D., Chemistry-Carnegie Mellon University (J. A. Pople)
Post Doc, Yale University (K. B. Wiberg)
Member of the MoleCVUE Consortium.

Contributions to Gaussian:
CI-Singles energies and gradients; solvation models;
coauthor of Exploring Chemistry with Electronic Structure Methods.

Research Interests

  • Development of computer models to address a wide-range of chemical problems
  • Integrating computational chemistry into the physical sciences curriculum
  • Visualization tools that will help students with the more abstract principles of chemistry

Selected Publications

"Further Solvatochromic, Thermochromic, and Theoretical Studies on Nile Red," C. M. Golini, B. W. Williams, J. B. Foresman, J. of Fluorescence., 8 (1998) 395.

"Naphthalene and Azulene I: Semimicro Bomb Calorimetry and Quantum Mechanical Calculations," C. Salter and J.B. Foresman, J. Chem. Educ., 75 (1998) 1341.

"Ab Initio Techniques in Chemistry: Interpretation and Visualization," Ch. 14 in Using Computers in Chemistry and Chemical Education, ed. M.L. Swift and T.J. Zielinski (ACS Books, Washington, D.C. 1997).

"Solvent Effects. 5. Influence of Cavity Shape, Truncation of Electrostatics, and Electron Correlation on Ab Initio Reaction Field Calculations," J.B. Foresman, T.A. Keith, K.B. Wiberg, J. Snoonian, M.J. Frisch, J. Phys. Chem. 100 (1996) 16098.

 

Last update: 23 September 2011