The Most Stable Structure of SiC3 Studied by Multireference Perturbation Theory with General Multiconfiguration Self-Consistent Field Reference Functions

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3064-3067

  Kurashige, Yuki ^a   Nakano, Haruyuki ^a   Hirao, Kimihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ENERGY SEPARATION; WAVE FUNCTION;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 2342533222     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp031133k     Document Type: Article

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