This thesis focuses on microscopic modelling of solvent effects on ions, molecules, and chemical reactions in solution by combining the reference interaction site model (RISM) for the solvent with a quantum mechanical (QM) description of the solute as provided by the density functional program ParaGauss. The hybrid QM+RISM model is applied to uranyl complexes and the homogeneously catalyzed CO2 conversion and yields a very satisfactory description of solvent effects compared to implicit solvent models and experiment.
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This thesis focuses on microscopic modelling of solvent effects on ions, molecules, and chemical reactions in solution by combining the reference interaction site model (RISM) for the solvent with a quantum mechanical (QM) description of the solute as provided by the density functional program ParaGauss. The hybrid QM+RISM model is applied to uranyl complexes and the homogeneously catalyzed CO2 conversion and yields a very satisfactory description of solvent effects compared to implicit solvent...
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