Frank McLafferty 
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry 

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Email Address: fmclaffe@liu.edu


Research Interest

  • Theoretical chemical kinetics
  • Path integral techniques
  • Bohm theory and hidden variable theory applications to kinetics
  • ab initio calculations of interactions between classical and quantum systems


    Representative Publications

  • "On quantum trajectories and an uncertainty relation", Frank McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 10474 (2002)
  • "G2 ab initio calculations of the enthalpy of formation of hydrazoic acid, methyl azide, ethyl azide, methyl amine, and ethyl amine", Donald W. Rogers and Frank J. McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 8302 (1995)
  • "On bimolecular kinetics, the Bloch equation and Wigner path integrals", Frank McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 5046 (1985)
  • "On quantum trajectories and an approximation to the Wigner path integral", Frank McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 5043 (1985)
  • "On nonadiabatic transitions and the Wigner path integral", Frank McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 79, 4922 (1983)
  • "On classical paths and the Wigner path integral", Frank McLafferty, J. Chem. Phys. 78, 3253 (1983)

    Updated on Oct. 25, 2003