James Foresman

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
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