Assignment #2a. Review of a Molecular Mechanics Paper

Find a paper on molecular mechanics in the chemical literature. It can be on applications of molecular mechanics or on method development. Write a one page review describing the paper.

Assignment #2b. MO calculations of Benzene and Formaldehyde

Calculated the orbital enegies of the pi orbitals of benzene at the HF/3-21G level of theory.

Plot the pi and pi* orbitals of formaldehyde