Sylvio Canuto
Sylvio Canuto is a Professor of physics at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. He was graduated from the University of Brasilia and obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Quantum Chemistry Department of the University of Uppsala in 1979. He was a Postdoctor and a Visiting Scientist at the University of Florida, USA. Before joining USP, he was a Professor at the University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. He was Chair of the Department in both institutions, UFPE and USP. He has been a Visiting Professor or short-term Visitor in about twenty universities, or research centers, in different continents. He serves as a Member of the advisory editorial board of the Chemical Physics Letters, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, and Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, and served as a Specialist Editor of the Computer Physics Communications. He is also an Associate Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Physics and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society. He also served as a Guest Editor of 6 special issues of journals dedicated to thematic subjects. He authored or coauthored more than 170 papers (or book chapters) in international journals. His present research interest lies on molecular structure, spectra and reactivity, of molecules and biomolecules both isolated and in a solvent liquid environment, using methods that combined quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics.
Biography Updated on 26 April 2007
Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Calculations of vibrational frequencies, Raman activities and degrees of depolarization for complexes involving water, methanol and ethanol
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 452, no. 1-3, pp. 54–58, 2008 - Conformational behavior of different possible ways of oligoglycine formation in a solvent-free environment
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 849, no. 1-3, pp. 25–32, 2008 - Polarization and solvatochromic shift of ortho-betaine in water
Chemical Physics, 2008 - Electronic properties of liquid ammonia: A sequential molecular dynamics/quantum mechanics approach
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 128, no. 1, p. 014506, 2008 - Solvent effects on the UV-visible absorption spectrum of benzophenone in water: A combined Monte Carlo quantum mechanics study including solute polarization
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 126, no. 3, p. 034507, 2007 - Probing supercritical water with the n-p[sup
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 126, no. 3, p. 034508, 2007 - A Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics study of the lowest n–p* and p–p* states of uracil in water
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 9, no. 35, p. 4907, 2007 - Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, vol. 18, no. 1, 2007
- An approximate many-body calculation for trapped bosons with attractive interaction
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 2225–2239, 2007 - Behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate containing a large number of atoms interacting through a finite-range interatomic interaction
Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 4, 2007 - On the relative abundance and interconversion of the two lowest isomers of AlP3
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 444, no. 4-6, pp. 247–251, 2007 - An efficient statistically converged average configuration for solvent effects
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 437, no. 1-3, pp. 148–152, 2007 - Electron binding energies of water clusters: Implications for the electronic properties of liquid water
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 429, no. 1-3, pp. 129–135, 2006 - Rayleigh scattering properties of small polyglycine molecules
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 760, no. 1-3, pp. 15–20, 2006 - Theoretical electronic spectra of 2-aminopurine in vapor and in water
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 106, no. 13, pp. 2564–2577, 2006 - Preface: Proceedings of the XIII Brazilian Symposium of Theoretical Chemistry
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 106, no. 13, pp. 2551–2551, 2006 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 22, pp. 7253–7261, 2006
- Reply to comment on ‘The enthalpy of the O–H bond homolytic dissociation: Basis-set extrapolated density functional theory and coupled cluster calculations’
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 417, no. 4-6, pp. 570–572, 2006 - Converged electronic polarization of acetone in liquid water and the role in the n–p* transition
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 429, no. 1-3, pp. 119–123, 2006 - Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 34, pp. 10303–10308, 2006
- A sequential Monte Carlo quantum mechanics study of the hydrogen-bond interaction and the solvatochromic shift of the n–p[sup
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 123, no. 12, p. 124307, 2005 - Spectral shift of sodium in a liquid-helium environment: A sequential Monte Carlo time-dependent density-functional-theory study
Physical Review A, vol. 72, no. 6, 2005 - Preface proceedings of the XII Brazilian Symposium of Theoretical Chemistry
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 103, no. 5, pp. 471–471, 2005 - Theoretical investigation of hydrogen bonding in lactonitrile-water complexes
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 103, no. 5, pp. 654–658, 2005 - Ab initio NMR study of the isomeric hydrogen-bonded methanol-water complexes
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 554–564, 2005 - Calculated infrared spectra of hydrogen-bonded methanol-water, water-methanol, and methanol-methanol complexes
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 808–815, 2005 - The enthalpy of the O?H bond homolytic dissociation: Basis-set extrapolated density functional theory and coupled cluster calculations
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 406, no. 4-6, pp. 300–305, 2005 - The relative stability of the two isomers of AlP
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 411, no. 1-3, pp. 14–17, 2005 - A look inside the cavity of hydrated a-cyclodextrin: A computer simulation study
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 413, no. 1-3, pp. 16–21, 2005 - Electronic polarization in liquid acetonitrile: A sequential Monte Carlo/quantum mechanics investigation
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 407, no. 1-3, pp. 13–17, 2005 - The low-lying electronic states of the GaN molecule
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 413, no. 1-3, pp. 65–70, 2005 - Relative strength of hydrogen bond interaction in alcohol?water complexes
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 400, no. 4-6, pp. 494–499, 2004 - José Roberto Leite (1942–2004)
phys. stat. sol. (a), vol. 201, no. 12, pp. 2609–2610, 2004 - José Roberto Leite (1942–2004)
physica status solidi (b), vol. 241, no. 12, pp. 2649–2650, 2004 - Sequential classical-quantum description of the absorption spectrum of the hydrated electron
Physical Review B, vol. 70, no. 21, 2004 - Solute relaxation on the solvatochromism of ortho-betaine dyes. A sequential Monte Carlo/quantum mechanics study
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 6, no. 9, p. 2088, 2004 - Combined Monte Carlo and quantum mechanics study of the hydration of the guanine-cytosine base pair
Physical Review E, vol. 69, no. 6, 2004 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 108, no. 9, pp. 1601–1607, 2004
- Can larger dipoles solvate less? solute?solvent hydrogen bond and the differential solvation of phenol and phenoxy
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 399, no. 4-6, pp. 534–538, 2004 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 18, pp. 4304–4310, 2003
- Electronic polarization of liquid water: converged Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics results for the multipole moments
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 369, no. 3-4, pp. 345–353, 2003 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 43, pp. 9197–9207, 2003
- Quantifying multiple-body interaction terms in H-bonded HCN chains with many-body perturbation/coupled-cluster theories
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 23, p. 10593, 2003 - Rayleigh light scattering of hydrogen bonded clusters investigated by means of ab initio calculations
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 399–408, 2003 - Electronic changes due to thermal disorder of hydrogen bonds in liquids: Pyridine in an aqueous environment
Physical Review E, vol. 67, no. 6, 2003 - Theoretical absorption and emission spectra of 1H- and 2H-benzotriazole
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 5, no. 22, p. 5001, 2003 - Electronic polarization of 1H-benzotriazole in water: Ground and first excited-state dipole moments
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 4-5, pp. 572–579, 2003 - Applications of density functional theory methods in millimeter-wave spectroscopy
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 575–585, 2003 - Rayleigh and Raman light scattering in hydrogen-bonded acetonitrile?water
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 360–366, 2003 - The sequential Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics methodology. Application to the solvent effects in the Stokes shift of acetone in water
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 632, no. 1-3, pp. 235–246, 2003 - Corrigendum to “An ab initio study of the peptide bond formation between alanine and glycine: electron correlation effects on the structure and binding energy”[J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 577 (2002) 267–279]
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 586, no. 1-3, p. 241, 2002 - Quantum chemical studies of the spectroscopic properties of the E-64 protease inhibitor
Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM, vol. 585, no. 1-3, pp. 129–141, 2002 - An ab initio study of the peptide bond formation between alanine and glycine: electron correlation effects on the structure and binding energy
Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM, vol. 577, no. 2-3, pp. 267–279, 2002 - QR-SCMEH-MO calculations on NdO and UO
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 629–633, 2002 - Solvent effects on the electronic absorption spectrum of formamide studied by a sequential Monte Carlo/quantum mechanical approach
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 31–37, 2002 - Effect of bond-length alternation on the dipole hyperpolarizability of phenol blue
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 87, no. 5, pp. 275–279, 2002 - Theoretical study of the hydrogen bond interaction between methylene blue and water and possible role on energy transfer for photodynamics
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 634–640, 2002 - The equation of state of hard-spherocylinder fluid mixturesElectronic Supplementary Information available. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cp/b1/b109010k/
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 922–925, 2002 - Ab initio calculation of hydrogen bonds in liquids: A sequential Monte Carlo quantum mechanics study of pyridine in water
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 117, no. 4, p. 1692, 2002 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 47, pp. 12317–12322, 2002
- Theoretical studies of hydrogen bonding in water–cyanides and in the base pair Gu–Cy
Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 615, no. 1-3, pp. 257–266, 2002 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 50, pp. 11260–11265, 2001
- A Monte Carlo–quantum mechanical study of the solvatochromism of pyrimidine in water and in carbon tetrachloride
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 1583–1587, 2001 - Efficient estimation of second virial coefficients of fused hard-sphere molecules by an artificial neural networkElectronic Supplementary Information available. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cp/b1/b105183k/
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 21, pp. 4762–4768, 2001 - A Monte Carlo–quantum mechanics study of the spectroscopic properties of molecules in solution
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 539, no. 1-3, pp. 171–179, 2001 - An efficient quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics Monte Carlo simulation of liquid water
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 335, no. 1-2, pp. 127–133, 2001 - The electronic spectrum of N-methylacetamide in aqueous solution: a sequential Monte Carlo/quantum mechanical study
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 345, no. 1-2, pp. 171–178, 2001 - An ab initio study of the hydrogen-bonded H2O:HCN and HCN:H2O isomers
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 322, no. 3-4, pp. 207–212, 2000 - Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics study of the UV-visible spectrum of benzophenone in water
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 80, no. 4-5, pp. 1062–1067, 2000 - Calculated Infrared, Raman, and Rayleigh Properties of the CO3 Molecule
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, vol. 202, no. 2, pp. 281–284, 2000 - From hydrogen bond to bulk: Solvation analysis of then-?* transition of formaldehyde in water
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 192–198, 2000 - Including dispersion in configuration interaction-singles calculations for the spectroscopy of chromophores in solution
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 112, no. 17, p. 7293, 2000 - A Monte Carlo-quantum mechanics study of the solvatochromic shifts of the lowest transition of benzene
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 112, no. 22, p. 9874, 2000 - Solvent effects in emission spectroscopy: A Monte Carlo quantum mechanics study of the n?p[sup *] shift of formaldehyde in water
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 113, no. 20, p. 9132, 2000 - Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, vol. 14, no. 19, pp. 3537–3542, 1999
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 1307–1317, 1999
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 26, no. 22, pp. 4301–4306, 1999
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1711–1725, 1999
- Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 196–199, 1999
- Ground state structure of C5H5 and van der Waals interaction with He and Ne
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 73–77, 1999 - Theoretical analysis of the hydrogen bond interaction between acetone and water
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 466, no. 1-3, pp. 69–75, 1999 - Editorial
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 464, no. 1-3, p. ix, 1999 - Calculated Raman and Rayleigh properties of the CaC molecule
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 489, no. 1, pp. 29–34, 1999 - Monte Carlo study of the temperature dependence of the hydrophobic hydration of benzene
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 313, no. 1-2, pp. 235–240, 1999 - Balanced complete active space choices with the multiconfigurational spin tensor electron propagator method: The vertical ionization potentials of NH2
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 4-5, pp. 729–736, 1998 - Sampling configurations in Monte Carlo simulations for quantum mechanical studies of solvent effects
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 249–253, 1998 - Theoretical analysis of the structure and bonding of the van der Waals cluster N2…C5H5
Physics Letters A, vol. 241, no. 1-2, pp. 90–93, 1998 - Calculated polarizabilities and gradients: Rayleigh and Raman scattering activities for the MgH molecule
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 432, no. 1, pp. 69–74, 1998 - Electronic and structural trends in small GaAs clusters
Nanostructured Materials, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 635–647, 1998 - Calculation of the absorption spectrum of benzene in condensed phase. A study of the solvent effects
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 885–891, 1997 - Electron correlation effects on the angular momentum anisotropies of the dipole polarizabilities of the first-row stable atomic anions
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 459–463, 1997 - The frequency dependence of the first dipole hyperpolarizability of dimethylaminoindoaniline
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 394, no. 2-3, pp. 181–185, 1997 - Quest for the ground state characterization of CaC
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 269, no. 3-4, pp. 193–198, 1997 - Hydrophobic interaction and solvatochromic shift of benzene in water
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 274, no. 1-3, pp. 269–274, 1997 - Impurity states in the narrow band-gap semiconductor n-type InSb
Solid State Communications, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 295–297, 1996 - Ab initio self-consistent-field studies of the structure, energetics and bonding of small gallium arsenide clusters
Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 125–131, 1995 - A detailed theoretical analysis of the electron correlation contribution to the static dipole hyperpolarizabilities of atomic anions: H-, C- and F-
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 335, no. 1-3, pp. 45–49, 1995 - Infrared intensity and Raman scattering activity for the SiC molecule
Physics Letters A, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 243–246, 1994 - Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and absorption spectra of carbon cluster nanotubes
Nanostructured Materials, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 11–18, 1994 - Extreme electron correlation effects on the electric properties of atomic anions
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 52, no. S28, pp. 265–270, 1994 - Isotropic and anisotropic static dipole polarizabilities of the first-row stable atomic anions
Physical Review A, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 3515–3518, 1994 - Theoretical determination of the spectroscopic constants of CaH+
Physical Review A, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 2461–2463, 1993 - Dynamic polarizabilities and Rydberg states of the argon isoelectronic sequence
Physical Review A, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 2686–2695, 1993 - Dipole moment, polarizability, and their derivatives for the SiC molecule
Physical Review A, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 826–828, 1993 - Influence of donor-triad molecules on the optical properties of semiconductors
Physical Review B, vol. 48, no. 24, pp. 18261–18263, 1993 - Role played by N and N-N impurities in type-IV semiconductors
Physical Review B, vol. 48, no. 24, pp. 17806–17810, 1993 - Coupled-cluster calculation of the static polarisabilities and hyperpolarisabilities of magnesium
Physics Letters A, vol. 176, no. 1-2, pp. 105–108, 1993 - Theoretical description of the absorption spectra of solid and liquid benzene
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 287, no. 3, pp. 99–106, 1993 - Many-body-perturbation-theory calculations of the microwave and vibrational constants of CaC
Physical Review A, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 4415–4417, 1992 - Theoretical studies of the absorption spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 377, p. 150, 1991 - Theoretical determination of the spectroscopic constants of the MgC molecule
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 367, p. L69, 1991 - Many-body perturbation theory and coupled-cluster calculations of the ground-state structure of CO3
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 177, no. 1, pp. 98–102, 1991 - Effect of three-donor cluster on infrared absorption of semiconductor systems
Solid State Communications, vol. 75, no. 11, pp. 939–941, 1990 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 112, no. 6, pp. 2114–2120, 1990
- On the inter-ring separation of the lowest excited and ionized states of [2.2]paracyclophane
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 157, no. 4, pp. 353–358, 1989 - The structure of HSSi+ as determined by fourth-order many-body perturbation theory
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 144, no. 4, pp. 362–365, 1988 - Correlated calculations of the electron affinity of HC2
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 34, no. S22, pp. 199–205, 1988 - A comparison of different many-body perturbation theory calculations of the ground state of SiS
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 395–401, 1988 - The dipole polarizability of Li-
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 147, no. 5, pp. 435–442, 1988 - Many-body perturbation theory and polarization propagator studies of the structure, energetics and excitation spectrum of CO3
Chemical Physics, vol. 120, no. 3, pp. 375–381, 1988 - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 21, no. 23, pp. 3891–3897, 1988
- Intra-d excitations: Comparison between approaches for impurities in semiconductors
Physical Review B, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 4770–4773, 1988 - Many-body studies of the structure and spectra of CO3
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 32, no. S21, pp. 759–760, 1987 - A core-excited rydberg state of SiF
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 139, no. 1-2, pp. 109–112, 1986 - Many-electron treatment of the off-center substitutional O in Si
Physical Review B, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 4432–4435, 1986 - Relaxation and vibration structure in the deepest ionized states of SiS
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 133, no. 1-2, pp. 221–226, 1985 - Vibrational linewidth of F1s core-hole states
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 86–92, 1985 - The virial theorem and the factorized wavefunction approach to perturbation theory. Application to the spherical Stark and spherical quadratic Zeeman problems in hydrogen
Physics Letters A, vol. 106, no. 1-2, pp. 1–4, 1984 - On the spherical quadratic Zeeman problem in hydrogen
Physics Letters A, vol. 101, no. 7, pp. 326–330, 1984 - Vibrational excitation of triplet core-ionized states of BeF
Chemical Physics, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 17–22, 1984 - Renner spliting in the first ionized state of BeF2
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 55–58, 1983 - Vibrational excitation following the Sls core ionization of CS
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 96, no. 5, pp. 591–594, 1983 - A comparison of theoretical models for interpreting the photoelectron spectrum of borazine
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 2, pp. 185–192, 1982 - Another approach to the spherical Stark problem in hydrogen
Physics Letters A, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 282–284, 1982 - Electronic splitting between the 3B2 and 3A2 states of BeF2
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 88, no. 1-2, pp. 209–211, 1982 - Electronic states of silabenzene
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 89, no. 1-2, pp. 77–81, 1982 - Theoretical studies of photodissociation and rydbergization in the first triplet state (3s3A?2) of ammonia
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 236–240, 1980