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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For development of semiempirical theory of electronic structure of large molecules, and its application to determination of molecular structure and spectra
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael C. Zerner was affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research contributions primarily related to the development and application of semiempirical theories in electronic structure calculations, especially concerning large molecules and their molecular structure and spectra.

Zerner's work was recognized through professional honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1995. The citation highlighted their development of semiempirical electronic structure theories and their application to molecular structure and spectral determination. Additionally, they were a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), inducted in 1983.

The scientist's academic record did not list recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or specific research topics in the provided data. However, the awards indicate a focus on theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly in semiempirical methods for electronic structure.

Best Publications

  • An intermediate neglect of differential overlap technique for spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes. Ferrocene

    Michael C. Zerner;Gilda H. Loew;Robert F. Kirchner;Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff

  • An intermediate neglect of differential overlap technique for spectroscopy: Pyrrole and the azines

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  • A Broyden—Fletcher—Goldfarb—Shanno optimization procedure for molecular geometries

    John D. Head;John D. Head;Michael C. Zerner;Michael C. Zerner

  • Calculated spectra of hydrated ions of the first transition-metal series

    Wayne P. Anderson;W. Daniel Edwards;Michael C. Zerner

  • Porphyrins: VIII. Extended Hckel calculations on iron complexes

    Michael Zerner;Martin Gouterman;Hiroshi Kobayashi

  • Porphyrins: IV. Extended Hckel calculations on transition metal complexes

    Michael Zerner;Martin Gouterman

  • An intermediate neglect of differential overlap theory for transition metal complexes: Fe, Co and Cu chlorides

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  • Triplet states via intermediate neglect of differential overlap: Benzene, pyridine and the diazines

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  • A theoretical examination of the electronic structure and spectroscopy of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis

    Mark A. Thompson;Michael C. Zerner

  • Molecular Dimensions for Adsorptives

    Charles Edwin Webster;and Russell S. Drago;Michael C. Zerner

  • Theoretical treatment of solvent effects on electronic spectroscopy

    Mati M. Karelson;Michael C. Zerner

  • A generalized restricted open-shell Fock operator

    W. Daniel Edwards;Michael C. Zerner

  • Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Methods

    Michael C. Zerner

  • Electronic Spectra of cis- and trans-Azobenzenes: Consequences of Ortho Substitution.

    C. L. Forber;E. C. Kelusky;N. J. Bunce;M. C. Zerner

  • Optical spectra of transition-metal carbonyls: chromium hexacarbonyl, iron pentacarbonyl, and nickel tetracarbonyl

    Manfred Kotzian;Notker Roesch;Hartmut Schroeder;Michael C. Zerner

  • A Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics study of the solvatochromic shifts of the lowest transition of benzene

    Kaline Coutinho;Sylvio Canuto;M. C. Zerner

  • SOLVENT EFFECT ON THE FIRST HYPERPOLARIZABILITIES OF CONJUGATED ORGANIC MOLECULES

    Jenwei Yu;Michael C. Zerner

  • Quantitative predictions of tautomeric equilibria for 2-, 3-, and 4-substituted pyridines in both the gas phase and aqueous solution: combination of AM1 with reaction field theory

    Mati M. Karelson;Alan R. Katritzky;Miroslaw Szafran;Michael C. Zerner

  • Reconsideration of solvent effects calculated by semiempirical quantum chemical methods

    Miroslaw Szafran;Mati M. Karelson;Alan R. Katritzky;Jacek Koput

  • An intermediate neglect of differential overlap model for second-row transition metal species

    Wayne P. Anderson;Thomas R. Cundari;Michael C. Zerner

  • Electronic Excitations in Aggregates of Bacteriochlorophylls

    Marshall G. Cory;Michael C. Zerner;Xiche Hu;Klaus J Schulten

  • ON THE N-PI BLUE SHIFT ACCOMPANYING SOLVATION

    Mati Karelson;Michael C. Zerner

  • Electrochromic effects of charge separation in bacterial photosynthesis: theoretical models

    Louise Karle Hanson;Jack Fajer;Mark A. Thompson;Michael C. Zerner

Frequent Co-Authors

Mati Karelson
Mati Karelson University of Tartu
Alan R. Katritzky
Alan R. Katritzky University of Florida
Jack Fajer
Jack Fajer Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jerzy Leszczynski
Jerzy Leszczynski Jackson State University
Notker Rösch
Notker Rösch Technical University of Munich
Martin Gouterman
Martin Gouterman University of Washington
Philip D. Rack
Philip D. Rack University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Paul H. Holloway
Paul H. Holloway University of Florida
Gilda H. Loew
Gilda H. Loew Stanford University
William N. Lipscomb
William N. Lipscomb Harvard University

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