Fernando Bernardi

34.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
259 papers, 30.6k citations indexed

About

Fernando Bernardi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Bernardi has authored 259 papers receiving a total of 30.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Organic Chemistry, 119 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 98 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Fernando Bernardi's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (106 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (63 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (41 papers). Fernando Bernardi is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (106 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (63 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (41 papers). Fernando Bernardi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Fernando Bernardi's co-authors include Samuel Francis Boys, Michael A. Robb, Massimo Olivucci, Marco Garavelli, Andréa Bottoni, H. Bernhard Schlegel, Paolo Celani, Alessandro Cembran, Saul Wolfe and Ioannis N. Ragazos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Bernardi

256 papers receiving 29.8k 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.

The calculation of small molecular interactions by the differences of separate total energies. Some procedures with reduced errors

1970 19.9k citations Samuel Francis Boys, Fernando Bernardi Molecular Physics profile →
Potential energy surface crossings in organic photochemistry

1996 684 citations Fernando Bernardi, Massimo Olivucci et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Fernando Bernardi	14.5k	10.0k	8.6k	7.4k	6.9k	259	30.6k
Björn O. Roos	19.0k 1.3×	7.5k 0.7×	5.5k 0.6×	10.8k 1.5×	5.5k 0.8×	327	34.0k
Nicholas C. Handy	25.8k 1.8×	8.4k 0.8×	8.7k 1.0×	10.8k 1.5×	11.3k 1.6×	374	42.5k
R. Ditchfield	9.6k 0.7×	5.7k 0.6×	13.2k 1.5×	8.1k 1.1×	6.7k 1.0×	74	31.7k
Jacopo Tomasi	11.4k 0.8×	11.3k 1.1×	17.9k 2.1×	9.7k 1.3×	6.3k 0.9×	193	40.5k
Michel Dupuis	13.3k 0.9×	6.2k 0.6×	7.8k 0.9×	10.2k 1.4×	5.2k 0.7×	243	34.6k
Keiji Morokuma	18.0k 1.2×	7.9k 0.8×	18.1k 2.1×	13.3k 1.8×	7.8k 1.1×	831	50.1k
Kenneth B. Wiberg	10.6k 0.7×	7.9k 0.8×	18.2k 2.1×	5.6k 0.8×	7.5k 1.1×	497	34.4k
J. Stephen Binkley	17.5k 1.2×	8.7k 0.9×	16.4k 1.9×	12.0k 1.6×	8.6k 1.2×	78	45.1k
Theresa L. Windus	12.3k 0.9×	6.0k 0.6×	8.5k 1.0×	8.8k 1.2×	5.1k 0.7×	136	30.6k
H. Bernhard Schlegel	18.7k 1.3×	7.6k 0.8×	17.9k 2.1×	9.7k 1.3×	7.7k 1.1×	446	45.8k

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Wanko, Marius, Marco Garavelli, Fernando Bernardi, et al.. (2004). A global investigation of excited state surfaces within time-dependent density-functional response theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 120(4). 1674–1692. 135 indexed citations

Garavelli, Marco, François Ogliaro, Michael J. Bearpark, et al.. (2003). A simple approach for improving the hybrid MMVB force field: Application to the photoisomerization of s‐cis butadiene. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(11). 1357–1363. 25 indexed citations

Bernardi, Fernando, Andréa Bottoni, & Gian Pietro Miscione. (2003). DFT Study of the Olefin Metathesis Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes. Organometallics. 22(5). 940–947. 74 indexed citations

Bernardi, Fernando, Marco Garavelli, Marco Scatizzi, et al.. (2002). Pseudopeptide Foldamers: The Homo-Oligomers of Pyroglutamic Acid. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(11). 2516–2516. 48 indexed citations

Garavelli, Marco, Fernando Bernardi, Vicent Moliner, & Massimo Olivucci. (2001). Intrinsically Competitive Photoinduced Polycyclization and Double-Bond Shift through a Boatlike Conical Intersection. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40(8). 1466–1468. 16 indexed citations

Bernardi, Fernando, Fulvio Cacace, Giulia de Petris, et al.. (2000). Gas-Phase Reactions of Nitronium Ions with Acetylene and Ethylene: An Experimental and Theoretical Study. Chemistry - A European Journal. 6(3). 537–544. 17 indexed citations

Garavelli, Marco, Paolo Celani, Fernando Bernardi, Michael A. Robb, & Massimo Olivucci. (1997). The C₅H₆NH₂⁺ Protonated Shiff Base: An ab Initio Minimal Model for Retinal Photoisomerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(29). 6891–6901. 239 indexed citations

Bearpark, Michael J., et al.. (1997). Cooperating Rings in cis-Stilbene Lead to an S₀/S₁ Conical Intersection. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 101(21). 3841–3847. 85 indexed citations

Robb, Michael A., Fernando Bernardi, & Massimo Olivucci. (1995). Applications of computational chemistry to the modelling of organic reactivity in ground and excited states. AIP conference proceedings. 330. 87–96. 1 indexed citations

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Bearpark, Michael J., Michael A. Robb, Fernando Bernardi, & Massimo Olivucci. (1994). Molecular mechanics valence bond methods for large active spaces. Application to conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons. Chemical Physics Letters. 217(5-6). 513–519. 64 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Massimo Olivucci, & Michael A. Robb. (1993). Modelling Photochemical Reactivity of Organic Systems — A New Challenge to Quantum Computational Chemistry. Israel Journal of Chemistry. 33(3). 265–276. 53 indexed citations

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Gosavi, R.K., et al.. (1987). A molecular orbital study of triplet state [beryllium.cntdot.ethylene] exciplexes and their reaction hypersurfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 91(2). 283–288. 2 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Andréa Bottoni, Alessandro Venturini, & A. Mangini. (1986). The stabilization of .alpha.-substituted oxy- and thiocarbanions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 108(26). 8171–8175. 29 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Massimo Olivucci, & Michael A. Robb. (1986). The relationship between the nature of the critical points and the shape of the diabatic surfaces in multicenter reactions. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 138(1-2). 97–105. 3 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Saul, et al.. (1983). D-orbital effects and the structure of the alpha-thiocarbanion. Tetrahedron Letters. 24(35). 3789–3792. 27 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Maurizio Guerra, & Gian Franco Pedulli. (1978). An mo study of the substituent effect in benzene radical ions. Tetrahedron. 34(14). 2141–2146. 11 indexed citations

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Schlegel, H. Bernhard, Kurt Mislow, Fernando Bernardi, & Andréa Bottoni. (1977). An ab initio investigation into the SN2 reaction: Frontside attack versus backside attack in the reaction of F? with CH3F. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 44(3). 245–256. 41 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Imre G. Csizmadia, Vedene H. Smith, Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, & Saul Wolfe. (1975). A relationship between correlation energies and sizes: The helium-like ions. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 37(2). 171–176. 8 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Fernando, Carlo Maurizio Camaggi, & Marcello Tiecco. (1974). ab initio Molecular orbital investigations of free radicals. Part I. Structure and reactivity of the ‘open-chain’ C₃H₃radical. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2. 518–520. 7 indexed citations

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Boys, Samuel Francis & Fernando Bernardi. (1970). The calculation of small molecular interactions by the differences of separate total energies. Some procedures with reduced errors. Molecular Physics. 19(4). 553–566. 19907 indexed citations breakdown →

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