Jason Sonnenberg

Email: jsonnenberg@stevenson.edu
Webpage: jasonsonnenberg.sufaculty.org

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Stevenson University
Post Doc, Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
Ph.D., Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)

Contributions to Gaussian: Hindered Rotor, internal coordinates

Research Interests

• Actinide chemistry, surface fitting.

Selected Publications

Sonnenberg, J. L.; Wong, K. F.; Voth, G. A.; Schlegel, H. B.; “Distributed Gaussian Valence Bond Surface Derived from Ab Initio Calculations,”Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 5, (2009), 949-961.

Sonnenberg, J. L.; Hratchian, H. P.; Schlegel, H. B.; “Spin Contamination in Inorganic Chemistry Calculations” in Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry; 3rd ed., (2009), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York.

Sonnenberg, J. L.; Schlegel, H. B.; “Empirical Valence Bond Models for Reactive Potential Energy Surfaces. II. Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Pyridone and the Claisen Reaction of Allyl Vinyl Ether,” Molecular Physics, 105, (2007), 2719-2729.

Bursten, B. E.; Palmer, E. J.; Sonnenberg, J. L. “On the Role of f-orbitals in the Bonding in f-element Complexes:  The “FEUDAL” Model as Applied to Organoactinide and Actinide Aquo Complexes,” Recent Advances in Actinide Science, Royal Society of Chemistry (2006), 157-162.

Clark, A. E.; Sonnenberg, J. L.; Hay, P. J.; Martin, R. L. “Density and Wave Function Analysis of Actinide Complexes: What can Fuzzy Atom, Atoms-in-molecules, Mulliken, Löwdin, and Natural Population Analysis Tell Us?” J. Chem. Phys., 121, (2004), 2563-2570.

Last update: 13 May 2010