Michael Dolg

Michael Dolg was born in February 1958, in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Stuttgart and Columbus, Ohio, and obtained his diploma in 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in 1989 from the University of Stuttgart. He was a Visiting Professor of theoretical chemistry at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1991 and 1993. From 1994 to 1999, he was a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. He obtained a C3 professor position for theoretical chemistry at the University of Bonn in 1999 and a C4 professor position at the University of Cologne in 2003. He is the author of about 170 scientific articles in theoretical chemistry.

Biography Updated on 21 April 2008

Personal Home Page

http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/tcchem/mitarbeiter/dolg/dolg/Prof_Dr_Michael_Dolg.html

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. All-electron Douglas–Kroll–Hess and pseudopotential study on the low-lying states of uranium hydride UH
    Chemical Physics, vol. 343, no. 2-3, pp. 250–257, 2008
  2. Titanocene Catalyzed 4-exo Cyclizations: Mechanism, Experiment, Catalyst Design
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, no. 5, pp. 1788–1796, 2008
  3. On the performance of two-component energy-consistent pseudopotentials in atomic Fock-space coupled cluster calculations
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 128, no. 2, p. 024106, 2008
  4. Energy-consistent relativistic pseudopotentials and correlation consistent basis sets for the 4d elements Y–Pd
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 126, no. 12, p. 124101, 2007
  5. Fully automated implementation of the incremental scheme: Application to CCSD energies for hydrocarbons and transition metal compounds
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 126, no. 15, p. 154110, 2007
  6. Evaluation of electronic correlation contributions for optical tensors of large systems using the incremental scheme
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 127, no. 8, p. 084108, 2007
  7. First-principles calculation of vibrational frequencies for monoclinic tribismuth borate BiB
    Zeitschrift f�r Kristallographie, vol. 222, no. 9, pp. 449–458, 2007
  8. Energy Screening for the Incremental Scheme: Application to Intermolecular Interactions
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 39, pp. 9830–9837, 2007
  9. A Quantum Chemical Study of the Haptotropic Rearrangements of Cr(CO)3 on Naphthalene and Phenanthrene Systems
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 27, pp. 6094–6102, 2007
  10. Computational investigation of the Bi lone-pairs in monoclinic bismuth triborate BiB3O6
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 9, no. 17, p. 2094, 2007
  11. Phase stabilities of monoclinic oxoborates LaB3O6 and GdB3O6 in C121 and I12/a1 phase—Energetics and chemical bonds derived from first-principles calculations
    Journal of Solid State Chemistry, vol. 180, no. 10, pp. 2763–2774, 2007
  12. Error analysis of incremental electron correlation calculations and applications to clusters and potential energy surfaces
    Chemical Physics, vol. 338, no. 1, pp. 33–43, 2007
  13. Quasirelativistic energy-consistent 5f-in-core pseudopotentials for divalent and tetravalent actinide elements
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 118, no. 5-6, pp. 845–854, 2007
  14. The performance of the Hartree–Fock–Wigner correlation model for light diatomic molecules
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 118, no. 4, pp. 777–783, 2007
  15. Quasirelativistic energy-consistent 5f-in-core pseudopotentials for trivalent actinide elements
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 473–481, 2006
  16. A PH-Functionalized Polyphosphazene: A Macromolecule with a Highly Flexible Backbone
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 19, pp. 3083–3086, 2006
  17. A quantum chemical ab initio study of the polymerization to polyhydridophosphazenes
    Chemical Physics, vol. 325, no. 2-3, pp. 291–298, 2006
  18. Relativistic energy-consistent ab initio pseudopotentials as tools for quantum chemical investigations of actinide systems
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 250, no. 7-8, pp. 900–910, 2006
  19. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 39, pp. 19254–19263, 2006
  20. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 3444–3451, 2006
  21. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 19, pp. 7071–7077, 2005
  22. Bent and planar molecules in polymorphs of the tricyclic carbon sulfide C6S8
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 465, 2005
  23. Organometallics, vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 3219–3228, 2005
  24. Energy-consistent pseudopotentials for group 11 and 12 atoms: adjustment to multi-configuration Dirac?Hartree?Fock data
    Chemical Physics, vol. 311, no. 1-2, pp. 227–244, 2005
  25. Relativistic Effects in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics In Memoriam Bernd A. He? (1954?2004)
    Chemical Physics, vol. 311, no. 1-2, pp. 1–2, 2005
  26. Molecular results for the Hartree–Fock–Wigner model
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 413, no. 1-3, pp. 237–241, 2005
  27. Static and dynamic properties of amorphous material derived from zeolite ZSM-5
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 351, no. 12-13, pp. 1151–1157, 2005
  28. Erratum to ‘Static and dynamic properties of amorphous material derived from zeolite ZSM-5’ by A.B. Mukhopadhyay, C. Oligschleger and M. Dolg [J. Non-Cryst. Solids 351 (12&13) (2005) 1151–1157]
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 351, no. 24-26, pp. 2152–2152, 2005
  29. Valence basis sets for lanthanide 4f-in-core pseudopotentials adapted for crystal orbital ab initio calculations
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 113, no. 4, pp. 212–224, 2005
  30. Improved relativistic energy-consistent pseudopotentials for 3d-transition metals
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 114, no. 4-5, pp. 297–304, 2005
  31. Hermann Stoll
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol. 114, no. 4-5, pp. 253–254, 2005
  32. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, vol. 4, no. Special Issue 1, p. 583, 2005
  33. Low-frequency vibrational excitations in zeolite ZSM-5 and its partially crystalline derivatives
    Physical Review B, vol. 69, no. 1, 2004
  34. Electron affinity of Ce and electronic states of Ce^{-}
    Physical Review A, vol. 69, no. 4, 2004
  35. Ab initio many-body investigation of structure and stability of two-fold rings in silicates
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 120, no. 18, p. 8734, 2004
  36. Segmented contraction scheme for small-core actinide pseudopotential basis sets
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 673, no. 1-3, pp. 203–209, 2004
  37. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 41, pp. 16085–16092, 2004
  38. Valence basis sets for relativistic energy-consistent small-core actinide pseudopotentials
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 2, p. 487, 2003
  39. Systematically convergent basis sets with relativistic pseudopotentials. II. Small-core pseudopotentials and correlation consistent basis sets for the post-d group 16–18 elements
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 21, p. 11113, 2003
  40. Theoretical prediction of the second to fourth actinide ionization potentials
    Molecular Physics, vol. 101, no. 7, pp. 961–969, 2003
  41. Density functional studies on lanthanide (III) texaphyrins (Ln-Tex 2+ , Ln=La, Gd, Lu): structure, stability and electronic excitation spectrum
    Molecular Physics, vol. 101, no. 15, pp. 2427–2435, 2003
  42. Electronic structure of lanthanide dimers
    Molecular Physics, vol. 101, no. 13, pp. 1967–1976, 2003
  43. Molecular dynamics investigation of structural properties of a zeolite ZSM-5 based amorphous material
    Physical Review B, vol. 67, no. 1, 2003
  44. Molecular dynamics investigation of vibrational properties of zeolite ZSM-5-based amorphous material
    Physical Review B, vol. 68, no. 2, 2003
  45. Ab initio many-body calculations on infinite carbon and boron-nitrogen chains
    Physical Review B, vol. 65, no. 11, 2002
  46. Molecular structure of diatomic lanthanide compounds
    Science in China Series B, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 91, 2002
  47. Segmented contraction scheme for small-core lanthanide pseudopotential basis sets
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 581, no. 1-3, pp. 139–147, 2002
  48. Relativistic energy-consistent pseudopotentials?Recent developments
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 767–778, 2002
  49. Pseudopotential study of lanthanum and lutetium dimers
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 143–149, 2002
  50. Bi4Te44+—A Cube-Shaped, Polycationic Main Group Element Cluster
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 2287–2290, 2001
  51. A comparison of scalar-relativistic ZORA and DKH density functional schemes: monohydrides, monooxides and monofluorides of La, Lu, Ac and Lr
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 334, no. 4-6, pp. 396–402, 2001
  52. On the performance of energy-consistent spin–orbit pseudopotentials: (111)H revisited
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 345, no. 5-6, pp. 490–496, 2001
  53. Basis set limit extrapolation of ACPF and CCSD(T) results for the third and fourth lanthanide ionization potentials
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 349, no. 5-6, pp. 489–495, 2001
  54. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 18–21, 2001
  55. Electron correlation effects on structural and cohesive properties of closo-hydroborate dianions (BnHn)2- (n = 5–12) and B4H4
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 514–522, 2001
  56. Structures of mercury clusters in a quantum–empirical hybrid model
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 23, pp. 5121–5129, 2001
  57. Valence basis sets for relativistic energy-consistent small-core lanthanide pseudopotentials
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 115, no. 16, p. 7348, 2001
  58. Ab initio treatment of electron correlations in polymers: Lithium hydride chain and beryllium hydride polymer
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 112, no. 10, p. 4801, 2000
  59. Realistic hybrid model for correlation effects in mercury clusters
    Physical Review B, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 2362–2370, 2000
  60. Small-core multiconfiguration-Dirac–Hartree–Fock-adjusted pseudopotentials for post-d main group elements: Application to PbH and PbO
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 113, no. 7, p. 2563, 2000
  61. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 23, pp. 5558–5567, 2000
  62. Correlated ground-state ab initio calculations of polymethineimine
    Chemical Physics, vol. 257, no. 2-3, pp. 301–310, 2000
  63. Structural changes induced by an excess electron in small mercury clusters
    International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 201, no. 1-3, pp. 197–204, 2000
  64. A small-core multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock-adjusted pseudopotential for Tl - application to Tl X ( X = F, Cl, Br, I)
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 22–28, 2000
  65. Performance of relativistic density functional and ab initio pseudopotential approaches for systems with high-spin multiplicities: Gadolinium diatomics GdX (X=H, N, O, F, P, S, Cl, Gd)
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 359–370, 2000
  66. Scalar-relativistic density functional and ab initio pseudopotential study of zero-valentd andf metal bis-?6-benzene sandwich complexes M(C6H6)2 (M = Sc, Ti, Y, Zr, La, Lu, Hf, Th, U)
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 201–209, 2000
  67. Ab Initio Study of Metal-Ring Bonding in the Bis(?6-benzene)lanthanide and -actinide Complexes M(C6H6)2 (M = La, Ce, Nd, Gd, Tb, Lu, Th, U)
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 7, pp. 1502–1512, 1999
  68. Relativistic ab initio and density functional theory calculations on the mercury fluorides: Is HgF4 thermodynamically stable?
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 302, no. 3-4, pp. 231–239, 1999
  69. Theoretical confirmation of the stereoselectivity in the reverse Brook rearrangement
    Tetrahedron, vol. 55, no. 44, pp. 12751–12756, 1999
  70. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 26, pp. 5091–5098, 1999
  71. Wave-function-based correlated ab initio calculations on crystalline solids
    Physical Review B, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 5211–5216, 1999
  72. Orbital localization and delocalization effects in the U 5f^{2} configuration: Impurity problem
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 17, pp. 10648–10654, 1998
  73. Obtaining Wannier functions of a crystalline insulator within a Hartree-Fock approach: Applications to LiF and LiCl
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1471–1483, 1998
  74. Ab initio approach to cohesive properties of GdN
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2127–2133, 1998
  75. Wannier-function-based ab initio Hartree-Fock approach extended to polymers: Applications to the LiH chain and trans-polyacetylene
    Physical Review B, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 4325–4334, 1998
  76. Benchmark calculations for lanthanide atoms: Calibration of ab initio and density-functional methods
    Physical Review A, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1721–1728, 1998
  77. Ab initio pseudopotential and density-functional all-electron study of ionization and excitation energies of actinide atoms
    Physical Review A, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 1103–1110, 1998
  78. Fully relativistic density functional calculations of the ground and excited states of Yb, YbH, YbF, and YbO
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 108, no. 7, p. 2886, 1998
  79. Towards a quantum-chemical description of crystalline insulators: A Wannier-function-based Hartree-Fock study of Li[sub 2]O and Na[sub 2]O
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 108, no. 20, p. 8521, 1998
  80. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 1067–1072, 1998
  81. Charge fluctuations and correlation strength in chemical bonds: First-row homonuclear diatomic molecules
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 157–173, 1998
  82. Relativistic and Electron-Correlation Effects in the Ground States of Lanthanocenes and Actinocenes
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 200–204, 1998
  83. A Hartree–Fock ab initio band-structure calculation employing Wannier-type orbitals
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 285, no. 3-4, pp. 174–179, 1998
  84. A Wannier-function-based ab initio Hartree–Fock study of polyethylene
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 294, no. 1-3, pp. 126–134, 1998
  85. Quantum Monte Carlo study of Be 2 and group 12 dimers M 2 (M = Zn, Cd, Hg)
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 231–240, 1998
  86. Pseudopotential study of the ground and excited states of Yb 2
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 100, no. 1-4, pp. 124–133, 1998
  87. Covalent contributions to bonding in group 12 dimers M2 (Mn = Zn, Cd, Hg)
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 273, no. 5-6, pp. 329–336, 1997
  88. The Beijing four-component density functional program package (BDF) and its application to EuO, EuS, YbO and YbS
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 75–83, 1997
  89. An incremental approach for correlation contributions to the structural and cohesive properties of polymers. Coupled-cluster study of trans-polyacetylene
    Chemical Physics, vol. 224, no. 2-3, pp. 121–131, 1997
  90. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 38, pp. 7128–7133, 1997
  91. Relativistic configuration-interaction study of valence-electron correlation effects on the fine-structure splitting in the Pb isoelectronic series
    Physical Review A, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 3433–3439, 1997
  92. Spin-orbit coupling in variational quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    Physical Review A, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 4183–4195, 1997
  93. Size dependent properties of Hgn clusters
    Molecular Physics, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 815–826, 1997
  94. Quantum chemical ab initio calculations of the magnetic interaction in alkalithioferrates(III)
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 106, no. 5, p. 1836, 1997
  95. The chemistry of the superheavy elements. I. Pseudopotentials for 111 and 112 and relativistic coupled cluster calculations for (112)H+, (112)F2, and (112)F4
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 106, no. 9, p. 3623, 1997
  96. Low-lying electronic states of lanthanocenes and actinocenes M(C[sub 8]H[sub 8])[sub 2] (M=Nd, Tb, Yb, U)
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 107, no. 9, p. 3584, 1997
  97. Probing the accuracy of pseudopotentials for transition metals in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 107, no. 19, p. 7951, 1997
  98. Quantum chemical approach to cohesive properties of NiO
    Physical Review B, vol. 55, no. 16, pp. 10282–10288, 1997
  99. Correlation effects in MgO and CaO: Cohesive energies and lattice constants
    Physical Review B, vol. 54, no. 19, pp. 13529–13535, 1996
  100. On the accuracy of valence correlation energies in pseudopotential calculations
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 104, no. 11, p. 4061, 1996
  101. The accuracy of the pseudopotential approximation. II. A comparison of various core sizes for indium pseudopotentials in calculations for spectroscopic constants of InH, InF, and InCl
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 105, no. 3, p. 1052, 1996
  102. Analysis of large-scale multi-configuration self-consistent field wave functions by expectation values of local operators
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 105, no. 6, p. 2353, 1996
  103. Accuracy of energy-adjusted quasirelativistic pseudopotentials: a calibration study of XH and X2(X = F,Cl,Br,I,At)
    Molecular Physics, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1645–1656, 1996
  104. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 15, pp. 6147–6151, 1996
  105. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 15, pp. 6152–6155, 1996
  106. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 25, pp. 7450–7451, 1996
  107. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 2463–2475, 1996
  108. Valence correlation energies from pseudopotential calculations
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 250, no. 1, pp. 75–79, 1996
  109. Large relativistic effects in molecular properties of the hydride of superheavy element 111
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 250, no. 5-6, pp. 461–465, 1996
  110. The accuracy of the pseudopotential approximation: non-frozen-core effects for spectroscopic constants of alkali fluorides XF (X = K, Rb, Cs)
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 255, no. 4-6, pp. 274–280, 1996
  111. An ab initio embedded-cluster approach to electronic structure calculations on perfect solids: a Hartree-Fock study of lithium hydride
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 262, no. 3-4, pp. 213–218, 1996
  112. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 24, pp. 6597–6598, 1995
  113. The accuracy of the pseudopotential approximation. I. An analysis of the spectroscopic constants for the electronic ground states of InCl and InCl3 using various three valence electron pseudopotentials for indium
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 102, no. 5, p. 2050, 1995
  114. Ab initio energy-adjusted pseudopotentials for the noble gases Ne through Xe: Calculation of atomic dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 102, no. 22, p. 8942, 1995
  115. Correlation effects in ionic crystals: The cohesive energy of MgO
    Physical Review B, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 4842–4848, 1995
  116. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2122–2131, 1994
  117. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 22, pp. 5852–5859, 1993
  118. On the dipole moment of PbO
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 99, no. 5, p. 3614, 1993
  119. Ab initio pseudopotential study of Yb and YbO
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 97, no. 2, p. 1162, 1992
  120. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 19, pp. 7518–7527, 1992
  121. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 21, pp. 8202–8208, 1992
  122. Langmuir, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 116–125, 1991
  123. Ground state calculations of di-p-cyclooctatetraene cerium
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 94, no. 4, p. 3011, 1991
  124. Anomalous high gold-metal bond stabilities: Relativistic configuration-interaction calculations for AuLa and AuLu
    Physical Review A, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1644–1647, 1991
  125. Relativistic effects in gold chemistry. I. Diatomic gold compounds
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 91, no. 3, p. 1762, 1989