Preface

Abstract

This European Conference on Computational Chemistry (EUCO-CC5) is the fifth in a series, following the previous ones held in Nancy, Lisboa, Budapest, and Assisi. These meetings, organized by the Working Party on Computational Chemistry (WPCC) of the Federation of the European Chemical Societies (FECS), are intended to give a broad view of the present-day achievements and capabilities of computational chemistry, whose strength depends on the strong interaction between theoretical and computational aspects. In fact, as a result of the rapid evolution of computational algorithms and computer technology, this science now covers a much larger field than the original one, which was essentially restricted to quantum chemistry. For this reason, in the present edition of the European Conference on Computational Chemistry, different aspects of this discipline have been covered, ranging from spectroscopy, thermodynamics, or molecular modeling to chemiometrics or grid computation. These themes were introduced by plenary lectures given by scientists from seven European countries and covered by communications and poster sessions. This conference could not have been organized without the valuable support of the Universities Paul Sabatier, Toulouse; de Provence and Paul Cézanne, Marseille; and the Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Toulouse. The organizing committees of the Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Toulouse (Jean-Pierre Daudey, Stefano Evangelisti, Nadine Halberstadt, Sophie Hoyau, Franck Jolibois, Thierry Leininger, Laurent Maron, Colin Marsden, Romuald Poteau, Fernand Spiegelman, and Christian Teichteil) and of the Groupe de Chimie Théorique et Modélisation Moléculaire, Marseille (Alain Allouche, Nicolas Ferré, Stéphane Humbel, Anouk Siri, and Didier Siri) thank Mrs. Gisèle Dedieu for her kind and precious help. Finally, we thank the editors, and especially Professor Erkki Brändas, for the publication of the proceedings of the conference in this Special Issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.