This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997. The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham's key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded by a review of the corresponding area of David's wide-ranging research interest. Each reviewer is recognised as an expert in that field of interest and has some close association with David Buckingham, as a scientific colleague and/or a former research student. The book should serve as a distinctive reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A.D. Buckingham is associated. The editors opted to reprint a majority of early classic Buckingham papers, balanced by some of David Buckingham's more recent publications. Reprinted papers have been placed into a general scientific context that covers prior influences on, and later impacts by, the work nominated for review.

This volume, the fifth in a popular series, features papers related to the development and utilization of materials with novel electrical, optical or magnetic properties. The field has experienced tremendous growth in the past years, and this volume provides a forum for materials scientists, chemists, physicists and engineers to assess the progress. In particular, light-emitting materials for displays are showing great promise for widespread commercialization. Developments in molecular engineering and self assembly, as well as in conducting polymers, are enabling better performance and greater scientific understanding of the phenomena underlying these advances. Improvements in electro-optic, photorefractive and two-photon absorbing materials are also being realized and are addressed here.

Combining the contemporary knowledge from widely scattered sources, this is a much-needed and comprehensive overview of the field. In maintaining a balance between theory and experiment, the book guides both advanced students and specialists to this research area. Topical reviews written by the foremost scientists explain recent trends and advances, focusing on the correlations between electronic structure and magnetic properties. The book spans recent trends in magnetism for molecules -- as well as inorganic-based materials, with an emphasis on new phenomena being explored from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints with the aim of understanding magnetism on the atomic scale. The volume helps readers evaluate their own experimental observations and serves as a basis for the design of new magnetic materials. Topics covered include: * Metallocenium Salts of Radical Anion Bis-(dichalcogenate) metalates * Chiral Molecule-Based Magnets * Cooperative Magnetic Behavior in Metal-Dicyanamide Complexes * Lanthanide Ions in Molecular Exchange Coupled Systems * Monte Carlo Simulation * Metallocene-Based Magnets * Magnetic Nanoporous Molecular Materials A unique reference work, indispensable for everyone concerned with the phenomena of magnetism.

Time-dependent density functional response theory for electronic chiroptical properties of chiral molecules; by Jochen Autschbach, Lucia Nitsch–Velasquez, and Mark Rudolph * Chiroptical Properties of Charge-Transfer Compounds; by Yoshihisa Inoue, Tadashi Mori * G-C content independent long-range charge transfer through DNA; by Tetsuro Majima * Induced chirality in porphiryn aggregates: the role of weak and strong interactions; by Roberto Purrello * Vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy of chiral molecules in solution; by Yunjie Xu * Magneto-electric properties of self-assembled monolayers of chiral molecules; by Zeev Vager and Ron Naaman * Theory of adsorption induced chirality and electron transfer through chiral systems; by Spiros Skourtis and David Beratan * Chiral-selective surface chemistry induced by spin-polarized secondary electrons; by Richard Rosenberg

Introduces an original model of the interaction between light and matter. Explains the new optical magnitudes, such as magnetic and electric susceptibilities for optical frequencies, and shows how they can obtain new correlations between the index of refraction and absorption of light, and molecular structure. The basic principle is that a substanc

The aim of this brief is to present, in sufficient detail, a non-perturbative technique for calculating optical hyperpolarizabilities. The ability to efficiently compute hyperpolarizabilities, for a variety of different molecular systems, makes this brief invaluable for those engaged in the computational design of new electro-optical materials. The resulting computation is very predictable and suitable for automation, in contrast to perturbative methods that typically rely on iterative methods. The methodology which is wholly applicable to atoms, molecules, clusters (and with some modifications) to condensed matter, is described and illustrated at a level that is accessible to theoreticians and supplemented with details that should be of interest to practitioners.