Lecture-3 - Role of Chemistry in Computer Science

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Role of Chemistry in

Computer Science &


Engineering
Week 2, Lecture 2
Taslima Ferdaus Shuva
Sr.Lecturer,Dept. of CSE, DSC.
CONTENTS
● Uses and effects of chemistry
● Benefits of Chemistry
● Applications of Chemistry
Uses and effects of chemistry

Computational chemistry uses result of theoretical chemistry incorporated


into efficient computer programmed to calculate structure and properties of
molecule.

It calculate the properties of molecule such as structure, relative energy,


charge distribution, dipole moment, vibrational frequency, reactivity and other
spectroscopic quantity.

Computational chemistry range from highly accurate (Ab initio method to less
accurate (semiemiprical) to very approximate (molecular mechanics).
(ab initio and semiimpirical will be discussed later)*
Cont.

In the past two decades, computational molecular modeling approaches (Leach,


2001) have emerged as important tools that can be used to predict atomic
structure, vibrational frequencies, binding energies, heats of reaction,
electrical properties, and mechanical properties of organic and inorganic
materials.
Benefits of Computational Chemistry

1) It allows the medicinal chemist to use the computational power of computer


for measurement of Mol. geometry , electron density, electrostatic potential
conformational analysis, different types of energies etc..
2) Computational chemistry is fairly cheap, it is fast compared to experiment
3) It makes comparison of various ligands through various parameters and sets
the actual finding.
4)  It is environmentally safe. It does not replace experiment, which remains the
final arbiter of truth about Nature
Relation Between
Chemistry and Computer
Science
Applications of Chemistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_chemistry
● Computational studies, used to find a starting point for a laboratory synthesis, or to
assist in understanding experimental data, such as the position and source of
spectroscopic peaks.
● Computational studies, used to predict the possibility of so far entirely unknown
molecules or to explore reaction mechanisms not readily studied via experiments.

Thus, computational chemistry can assist the experimental chemist or it can challenge the
experimental chemist to find entirely new chemical objects.
Cont.

Several major areas may be distinguished within computational chemistry:

● The prediction of the molecular structure of molecules by the use of the simulation of forces,
or more accurate quantum chemical methods, to find stationary points on the energy
surface as the position of the nuclei is varied.
● Storing and searching for data on chemical entities Identifying correlation between chemical
structure and properties .
● Computational approaches to help in the efficient synthesis of compounds.
● Computational approaches to design molecules that interact in specific ways with other
molecules(e.g. Drug design and catalysis)
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA9pnR6VvBw

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