Trimethylene isomers and propene: Structural and vibrational properties from density functional theory

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 24-34

  Boero, Mauro ^a   Andreoni, Wanda ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0031592437     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(96)01396-6     Document Type: Article

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