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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1967 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1966 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
  • 1966 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Leland C. Allen was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their scholarly output included publications in journals such as the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and Synlett. Recent publications include the paper titled Table of Contents (2021) published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, and Linked PDF of Table of Contents (2023) published in Synlett.

The scientist collaborated with a number of coauthors throughout their career. Frequent coauthors included:

  • M. Swartz
  • R. H. Koch
  • Karen Chapman-Novakofski
  • Daewoo Lee
  • Abbey Alkon

Their work appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
  • Synlett

Leland C. Allen was recognized with several awards during their career. These included being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in both 1966 and 1967. In addition, they were a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) as of 1966.

Best Publications

  • Electronegativity is the average one-electron energy of the valence-shell electrons in ground-state free atoms

    Leland C. Allen

  • Theory of the hydrogen bond

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland C. Allen

  • Electronic Structure and Inversion Barrier of Ammonia

    Arvi Rauk;Leland C. Allen;Enrico Clementi

  • Proton and carbon-13 chemical shifts: Comparison between theory and experiment

    Celeste McMichael Rohlfing;Leland C. Allen;Robert Ditchfield

  • Systematic study of the nine hydrogen-bonded dimers involving ammonia, water, and hydrofluoric acid

    J. D. Dill;L. C. Allen;W. C. Topp;J. A. Pople

  • Theory of the Hydrogen Bond: Electronic Structure and Properties of the Water Dimer

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland C. Allen

  • Evaluation and Test of Pauling's Electronegativity Scale

    Lynne Reed Murphy;Terry L. Meek;A. Louis Allred;Leland C. Allen

  • Origin of Rotational Barriers. I. Many‐Electron Molecular Orbital Wavefunctions for Ethane, Methyl Alcohol, and Hydrogen Peroxide

    William H. Fink;Leland C. Allen

  • Metal ion requirements and other aspects of the reaction catalyzed by M1 RNA, the RNA subunit of ribonuclease P from Escherichia coli.

    Cecilia Guerrier-Takada;Karen Haydock;Leland Allen;Sidney Altman

  • Simple model of hydrogen bonding

    Leland C. Allen

  • Theory of the Hydrogen Bond: Ab Initio Calculations on Hydrogen Fluoride Dimer and the Mixed Water–Hydrogen Fluoride Dimer

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland C. Allen

  • Theory of the strong hydrogen bond. Ab initio calculations on HF2- and H5O2+1a

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland Cullen Allen

  • Nature of the hydrogen bond. Dimers involving electronegative atoms of the first row

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland C. Allen

  • Hydrogen bonded dimers and polymers involving hydrogen fluoride, water, and ammonia

    Peter A. Kollman;Leland Cullen Allen

  • Energy component analysis of rotational barriers

    L.C. Allen

  • Geometry of Molecules. I. Wavefunctions for Some Six‐ and Eight‐Electron Polyhydrides

    Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff;Robert J. Buenker;Leland C. Allen

  • Coupling between oxidation state and hydrogen bond conformation in heme proteins

    Joan S. Valentine;Robert P. Sheridan;Leland C. Allen;Peter C. Kahn

  • Molecular orbital calculations on carbonium ions. II. Methyl, ethyl, and vinyl cations. The series C3H7+

    Reiner Sustmann;James E. Williams;M. J. S. Dewar;Leland Cullen Allen

  • Strong, positive‐ion hydrogen bonds: The binary complexes formed from NH3, OH2, FH, PH3, SH2, and ClH

    Peter J. Desmeules;Leland C. Allen

  • The carbon 1-carbon 3 bond in [1.1.1]propellane

    James E. Jackson;Leland C. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Kollman
Peter A. Kollman University of California, San Francisco
William L. Jorgensen
William L. Jorgensen Yale University
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Joel F. Liebman
Joel F. Liebman University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John A. Pople
John A. Pople Stanford University
James E. Jackson
James E. Jackson Michigan State University
Arvi Rauk
Arvi Rauk University of Calgary
Warren J. Hehre
Warren J. Hehre University of California, Irvine
Robert J. Buenker
Robert J. Buenker University of Wuppertal
Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff University of Bonn

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