RICON - The computer program for the quantitative investigations of cyclic organic molecule conformations

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 766-773

  Zotov, Alexander Yu ^a   Palyulin, Vladimir A ^a   Zefirov, Nikolai S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0344353549     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci960115f     Document Type: Article

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