Quantum Chemistry

All chemists schould read this book. I highly recommend this text.

In a World Gone Mad One Quantum Book Stands Above The Rest!When I took QM I suffered through other books before finding this one after the course was over. It was my first McQuarrie book but not my last as I went on to use and enjoy his Statistical Mechanics book and wish I had read his Physical Chemistry instead of the Telephone Book Atkins has become.

This is an excellent introduction to quantum chemistry. Mcquarrie writes clearly and makes quantum chemistry almost easy. It's not a graduate level text and any graduate courses using it will have to be heavily supplimented due to the limited range of subjects in the book. I have three quantum chemistry books: this, Levine, and Atkins (molecular quantum mechanics). Of the three this is the easiest to understand, followed by Levine and then by Atkins. My two gripes with this text is the limited range and the heavy skipping of derivations. Mcquarrie tries to baby-step the reader through his text but sometimes totally skips some derivations. Levine becomes easier to understand in that respect. I don't mind it if the author sometimes skips steps during a derivation, but when he leaves everything out, that doesn't help with the understanding. He states that they're easy and rightly, they are. But assuming too much about the ability of the student is not the hallmark of a teacher. Intro to quantum chem is simple enough a subject to not have to make such an assumption. Recommended for any undergrad chem/biochem/biology majors.

This is my first time writing a review and I hope a rookie like me can appropriately describe this book's excellence. It's a very suitable textbook for chemistry students as it takes in account the math background of a normal chemistry student and developed the math derivation based upon this background. As quantum mechanics is in nature mathematics (this was said by Linus Pauling in his book on "introduction to quantum mechanics and its application on chemistry"), math is something that we cannot avoid to understand quantum mechanics itself. Donald's book excels in very clear math derivation which helps to unveil the myth of quantum mechanics as well as interpreting the physical meaning of math derivation which is directly related to practical applications. In that sense, this book is also good for students who have other majors but want to study quantum chemistry as the book is faithful to the idea of applying quantum mechanics to chemistry problems.

it is a good item

I didn't find any publisher info in the book, which is weird. Nonetheless, the content is great and for the price, better! With good care, one should not have any problems with this book. I bought it to study independently before taking Quantum Mechanics next year. I've already gone through the first chapters and everything is going well. I highly recommend this book to Chemistry majors, Materials Science, Nano, etc. i.e. because they are less mathematically trained than physicists.

Granted this book is geared toward chemists, but the quantum principles described in the book apply to everyone. The author is very clear, thorough, and easy to follow. Highly recommended for physicists, chemists, and materials engineers alike.

This is a great introduction for Quantum Physics. It is not nearly as rigorous as the Physics books, and is actually enjoyable to read. I recommend reading this before taking quantum physics, or concurrently.