Bala "Ramu" Ramachandran Hazel Stewart Garner Professor of Chemistry Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, College of Engineering & Science Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, 1987-89 Ph. D., Kansas State University, 1987 M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1982 B. Sc., University of Calicut, India, 1980

Research Interests

My research interests are in the general area of computational chemistry.  In the past decade, my work has dealt with structure, energetics, and reactivity of organolithium compounds and gas phase reaction dynamics including the development of potential energy surfaces. I also have an active interest in exploring the role of correlation energy in DFT and wavefunction-based ab initio methods. Most of this work tends to be intensely computational in nature, and requires the use of high-performance computing platforms.   Projects currently in progress in include the study of the reaction mechanisms of organolithium and organomercury compounds in gas phase as well as condensed phases, the calculation of electrostatic surface potentials of aromatic thiols adsorbed on gold surfaces, and  the development of computationally efficient methods for the propagation of quantum wavepackets.

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Atomic Orbital Pictures Using Mathematica

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