Charles F. Bender

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Charles F. Bender is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles F. Bender has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 25 papers in Spectroscopy and 19 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Charles F. Bender's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (70 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (17 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (17 papers). Charles F. Bender is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (70 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (17 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (17 papers). Charles F. Bender collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Charles F. Bender's co-authors include Henry F. Schaefer, Ernest R. Davidson, Bruce R. Kowalski, Stephen V. O'Neil, Dean H. Liskow, Charles W. Bauschlicher, Peter K. Pearson, T. N. Rescigno, Francis H. Ree and Isaiah Shavitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Charles F. Bender

107 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Pattern recognition. Powerful approach to interpreting chemical data
    1972 380 citations Bruce R. Kowalski, Charles F. Bender Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Charles F. Bender
Hs. H. Günthard Switzerland
B. S. Rabinovitch United States
Joel Tellinghuisen United States
D. P. Stevenson United States
Earle K. Plyler United States
Chava Lifshitz Israel
E. W. Schlag Germany
Donald H. Levy United States
W. Graham Richards United Kingdom
Ronald D. Brown Australia
Hs. H. Günthard Switzerland
Charles F. Bender
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bender, Charles F. & Ernest R. Davidson. (1980). Systematics of the electronic states of the rare-earth trihalides. Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry. 42(5). 721–725. 10 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F., T. N. Rescigno, Henry F. Schaefer, & A. E. Orel. (1979). Potential energy curves for diatomic zinc and cadmium. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 71(3). 1122–1127. 67 indexed citations
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Bauschlicher, Charles W., Kenneth S. Haber, Henry F. Schaefer, & Charles F. Bender. (1977). Concerted non-least-motion pathway for the singlet methylene insertion reaction CH2(1A1) + H2 .fwdarw. CH4. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 99(11). 3610–3614. 47 indexed citations
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Bauschlicher, Charles W., Henry F. Schaefer, & Charles F. Bender. (1976). The least-motion insertion reaction methylene(1A1) + molecular hydrogen .fwdarw. methane. Theoretical study of a process forbidden by orbital symmetry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 98(7). 1653–1658. 26 indexed citations
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Kowalski, Bruce R. & Charles F. Bender. (1976). An orthogonal feature selection method. Pattern Recognition. 8(1). 1–4. 58 indexed citations
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Rescigno, T. N., C. William McCurdy, Vincent McKoy, & Charles F. Bender. (1976). Low-energy electron-impact excitation of the hydrogen molecule. Physical review. A, General physics. 13(1). 216–223. 51 indexed citations
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Bauschlicher, Charles W., Dean H. Liskow, Charles F. Bender, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1975). Model studies of chemisorption. Interaction between atomic hydrogen and beryllium clusters. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 62(12). 4815–4825. 102 indexed citations
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Kowalski, Bruce R. & Charles F. Bender. (1974). ChemInform Abstract: THE APPLICATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION TO SCREENING PROSPECTIVE ANTICANCER DRUGS, ADENOCARCINOMA 755 BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY TEST. Chemischer Informationsdienst. 5(16). 3 indexed citations
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Liskow, Dean H., Charles F. Bender, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1974). Potential energy surfaces related to the ion-molecule reaction C+ + H2. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 61(7). 2507–2513. 72 indexed citations
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Yarkony, David R., et al.. (1974). Interaction potential between two rigid HF molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 60(3). 855–865. 118 indexed citations
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Liskow, Dean H., John M. McKelvey, Charles F. Bender, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1974). A Priori Prediction of the Cohesive Energy of One-Dimensional Metallic Hydrogen.. Physical Review Letters. 32(23). 1331–1331. 26 indexed citations
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Winter, N. W., Charles F. Bender, & William A. Goddard. (1973). Theoretical assignments of the low-lying electronic states of carbon dioxide. Chemical Physics Letters. 20(6). 489–492. 88 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F., et al.. (1973). Dimers of lithium fluoride and sodium hydride. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 95(18). 5868–5870. 35 indexed citations
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Liskow, Dean H., Charles F. Bender, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1972). Theoretical reaction coordinate for the methyl isocyanide isomerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94(15). 5178–5182. 38 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F., Thom H. Dunning, Henry F. Schaefer, William A. Goddard, & William J. Hunt. (1972). Multiconfiguration wavefuntions for the lowest (ππ*) excited states of ethylene. Chemical Physics Letters. 15(2). 171–178. 60 indexed citations
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McLaughlin, Donald R., Charles F. Bender, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1972). Geometry and force constant determination from correlated wave functions for polyatomic molecules: Ground states of H2O and CH2. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 25(4). 352–359. 32 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F.. (1970). Uses of pair energy techniques in molecular calculations: The ammonia molecule. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 16(5). 401–402. 6 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F. & Henry F. Schaefer. (1970). New theoretical evidence for the nonlinearity of the triplet ground state of methylene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 92(16). 4984–4985. 82 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F. & Ernest R. Davidson. (1969). Unitary transformations and pair energies. Chemical Physics Letters. 3(1). 33–34. 24 indexed citations
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Bender, Charles F. & Ernest R. Davidson. (1968). Theoretical Study of the LiH Molecule. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 49(9). 4222–4229. 70 indexed citations

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