Valence shell structures in the distributions of the Laplacian of the electron density and the one-electron potential for diatomic molecules

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2473-2485

  Chan, Wai To ^a   Hamilton, I P ^a,b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 0001478126     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.475630     Document Type: Article

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