Ajit J. Thakkar

About

Ajit Thakkar was born in India and lives in Fredericton, NB, Canada where he is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of New Brunswick. He is an Editor Emeritus of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

Employment

• University of New Brunswick Fredericton Professor Emeritus
  2015 - Present
• University of New Brunswick Fredericton Professor
  1988 - 2014
• University of New Brunswick Fredericton Associate Professor
  1984 - 1988
• University of Waterloo Research Assistant Professor
  1980 - 1984

Education

• Queen's University PhD
  1973 - 1976
• Queen's University BSc
  1969 - 1973

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (297)

• Fritz Grein and his scientific career exceeding 65 years
  Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2023.114288
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• Dipole oscillator strength distributions, sum rules, mean excitation energies, and isotropic van der Waals coefficients for benzene, pyridazine, pyrimidine, pyrazine, s-triazine, toluene, hexafluorobenzene, and nitrobenzene
  The Journal of Chemical Physics 2020 DOI: 10.1063/5.0025662
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• Constrained dipole oscillator strength distributions, sum rules, and dispersion coefficients for Br 2 and BrCN
  Chemical Physics Letters 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.01.053
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• Ab initio calculations of static dipole polarizabilities and Cauchy moments for the halomethanes, CH Cl F4−−
  Chemical Physics Letters 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.11.044
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• Constrained dipole oscillator strength distributions for CF$_4$, CClF$_3$, CCl$_2$F$_2$, CCl$_3$F, CHF$_3$, CH$_3$F, CH$_3$Cl, CH$_3$Br, CH$_3$I, C$_2$F$_6$, and CCl$_3$CF$_3$
  Z. Phys. Chemie 2016
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• Construction of constrained dipole oscillator strength distributions
  Z. Phys. Chemie 2016
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• Dipole properties of PH$_3$, PF$_3$, PF$_5$, PCl$_3$, SiCl$_4$, GeCl$_4$, and SnCl$_4$
  Mol. Phys. 2016
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• How Can One Locate the Global Energy Minimum for Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters?
  Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry IV 2016
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• How well do static electronic dipole polarizabilities from gas-phase experiments compare with density functional and MP2 computations?
  The Journal of Chemical Physics 2015 DOI: 10.1063/1.4932594
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• Choosing a density functional for static molecular polarizabilities
  Chemical Physics Letters 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.07.003
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