Prof. Dr. Yirong Mo

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityKalamazoo
InstitutionWestern Michigan University
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Sigrid PeyerimhoffInstitut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Gernot FrenkingFachbereich 15: Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1996

Programme(s)

1995Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2001Yirong Mo, D. L. Fiacco, S. W. Hunt, M. E. Ott, A. Roberts, K. R. Leopold: Dipole moment of partially bound Lewis acid-base adducts. In: J. Phys. Che. A, 2001, 484-493
2001Yirong Mo, K. Byun, J. Gao: New insight on the origin of the unusual acidity of Meldum's acid from ab initio and combinet QM/MM simulation study. In: J. Am Chem. Soc., 2001, 3974-3979
2001Yirong Mo, J. Gao: Polarization and charge transfer effects in Lewis acid-base complexes. In: J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 6530-6536
2000Yirong Mo, J. Gao: Ab initio QM/MM simulations with a molecular orbital-valence bond (MOVB) method: applicatiob to an SN2 reaction in Water. In: J. Compt. Che., 2000, 1458-1469
2000Yirong Mo, J. Gao,: An ab initio molecular orbital-valence bond (MOVB) method for simulating chemical reactions in solution. In: J. Phys. Chem., 2000, 3012-3020
2000Yirong Mo, N. Wu, J. Gaok, E. F. Pai: Electrostatic stress in catalysis: structure and mechanism of the enzyme orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2000, 2017-2022
2000Yirong Mo, J. Gao, S. D. Peyerimhoff: Energy decomposition analysis of intermolecular interactions using a block-localized wave function approach. In: J. Chem. Phys. , 2000, 5530-5538
2000Yirong Mo, T. Zhou, A. Liu, H. Zhang: Sequential mechanism of methane dehydrogenation over metal (Mo or W) oxide and carbide catalysts. In: J. Phys. Chem. A, 2000, 4505-4513
2000Yirong Mo, J. Gao: Simulation of chemical reactions in solution using an ab initio molecular orbital-valence bond model. In: S. D. Schwartz, Theoretical Methods in Condensed Phase Chemistry. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
2000Yirong Mo, M. Lin, W. Wu, Q. Zhang: The block-localized wave function method and its application. In: Acta Chim. Sinica, 2000, 218-221