Comparative study of ethane and propane cation radicals by B3LYP density functional and high-level ab initio methods

Journal of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 100, Issue 39, 1996, Pages 15774-15784

  Zuilhof, Han ^a,b   Dinnocenzo, Joseph P ^a   Reddy, A Chandrasekhar ^b   Shaik, Sason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0000207184     PISSN: 00223654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp961092a     Document Type: Article

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