VITAE

Donald Reed McLaughlin

Birthdate

6 October, 1938

Address

Chemistry Department, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Mexico 87131

Degrees and Honors

Positions and Appointments

Publications

1.	Significant Structure Theory of Molecules Having Hindered Intermolecular Rotation in the Condensed Phases, D. R. McLaughlin and H. Eyring, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 55, 1031 (1966).

2.	Calculation of the Attractive He Pair Potential, H. F. Schaefer, III, D. R. McLaughlin, F. Harris, and B. Alder, Physical Review Letters, 25, 988 (1970).

3.	Interatomic Correlation Energy of the Van der Waals Attraction Between Two Helium Atoms, D. R. McLaughlin and H. F. Schaefer, III, Chemical Physics Letters, 12, 244 (1971).

4.	Quantum Mechanical Investigation of the HeH3+ Energy Surface, M. J. Benson and D. R. McLaughlin, J. Chem. Phys., 56, 1322 (1972).

5.	Geometry and Force Constant Determination from Correlated Wave Functions for Polyatomic Molecules: Ground States of H2O and CH2, D. R. McLaughlin, C. F. Bender, and H. F. Schaefer, III, Theor. Chem. Acta, 25, 352 (1972).

6.	Quantum Mechanical Cell Model for Thermal Conductivity of Simple Liquids, J. F. Kerrisk and D. R. McLaughlin, Thermochemical Acta, 3, 265 (1972).

Temperature Effects on the Carbon-13 NMR Shifts of Selected Compounds, W. M. Litchman and D. R. McLaughlin, Chem. Phys. Lett., 22, 424 (1973).

8.	Ab Initio Dynamics: HeH+ + H2 He + H3+ (C2v) Classical Trajectories Using a Quantum Mechanical Potential-energy Surface, D. R. McLaughlin and D. L. Thompson, J. Chem. Phys., 59, 4393 (1973).

9.	A Quasiclassical Trajectory Study of the H2 + F2 Reactions, D. L. Thompson and D. R. McLaughlin, J. Chem. Phys., 62, 4284 (1975).

10.	A Theoretical Prediction of Vibrational Enhancement for Dissociative Charge Transfer in the HeH2+ System, R. K. Preston, D. L. Thompson, and D. R. McLaughlin, J. Chem. Phys., 68, 13 (1978).

11.	Ground- and Lower Excited-state Discrete ab initio Electronic Potential Energy Surfaces for Doublet HeH2+, D. R. McLaughlin and D. L. Thompson, J. Chem. Phys., 70, 2478 (1979).

12.	Variational Calculation of the Lower Vibrational Energy Levels of the Ammonia Molecule, P. Bopp, D. R. McLaughlin, and M. Wolfsberg, Z. Naturforsch., 37a, 398 (1982).

13.	Symbolic Computation in Chemical Education in Applications of Computer Algebra, R. Pavelle, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.

14a.

An Algorithmic Approach to Mastering General Chemistry, Don

R. McLaughlin, Kinkos, 1989.

14b.

Techniques for Solving Problems in Gneneral Chemistry, Don R. McLaughlin, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.

14c.

Chemistry Concepts, 2nd ed, Don R. McLaughlin, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.

Presentations

1.	Significant Structure Liquid Theory, Theoretical Division, LASL, 1968.

2.	SCF Diatomic Calculations, Physics Department, UNM, November 20, 1969.

3.	Orbital Methods in Chemistry, Chemistry Department, UNM, November 19, 1971.

4.	Potential Energy Surfaces, CNC Division, LASL, May 1972.

5.	Ab Initio Dynamics, CNC-4 Group, LASL, June 20, 1973.

6.	Quasiclassical H2/F2 Dynamics, 2nd. Rockey Mountain ACS Meeting, Albuquerque, July 9, 1974.

7.	Exploring the HeH2+ Range, Molecular Physics Symposium, LASL, August 13, 1975.

8.	HeH3+ Surface, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, November 16, 1976.

9.	Astrochemistry, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, March 8, 1977.

10.	Ion-molecule Reactions, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, September 27, 1977.

11.	Potential Energy Surface Calculations, CNC-2 group seminar, LASL, August 1978.

12.	Theoretical Prediction for Collisional Predissociation: He+ + H2 He + H+ + H, Gordon Conference on Isotopes, Santa Barbara, 1978.

13.	The HeH2+ Surfaces, Chemistry Department Seminar, UCI, March 12, 1979.

14.	HeH3+, where are you?, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, October 9, 1979.

15a.
Vibrational Molecular Spectroscopy, Part I. Vibrational Hamiltonians, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, March 4, 1980.

15b.

Vibrational Molecular Spectroscopy, Part II. Application to Water and Ammonia, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, March 11, 1980.

16.	Genochemistry, ACS Symposium on non-mainstream Chemistry Courses, Salt Lake City, June 12, 1980.

17.	Chemical Periodicity, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, September 23, 1980.

18.	Chemometrics, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, March 3, 1981.

19.	Symbolic Computation, Physical Chemistry Divisional Seminar, UNM, February 15, 1983.

20.	The Center for Graduate Studies at Los Alamos, TRADE Continuing Education Meeting, LNL, May 1984.

22.	S21 Computation in Chemical Education, ACS Symposium on Symbolic Algebraic Manipulation in Scientific Computation, Philadelphia, August 1984.

Combustion Modeling, NMERI, UNM, July 15, 1988.

Contracts and Grants

1.	Pre-college College Teacher Development and Science Project, NSF, $15,969, 1978 (with the College of Education).

2.	Center for Graduate Studies at Los Alamos, LANL, $350,000/yr, 1981-1987.

Unfunded Proposals

1.	Baseline Water Quality in the Rio Grande Basin, with Nick Vanderborgh (Chemistry), NSF, 1968.

2.	Theoretical Investigations of the HeH2+ Molecular System, NSF, 1978.

3.	Properties of Small Molecules, Charles Beckel (Physics), Principle Investigator, AFOSR, 1983.

4.	Characterization of Rosch-07-0582 Radiosensitization Cancer Therapeutic, with William Hadley (Pharmacy), Jerry Born (Pharmacy) and John Yuhas (Cancer Center), NCI, 1978.