Valence bond theory, its history, fundamentals, and applications: A primer

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 20, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-100

  Shaik, Sason ^a   Hiberty, Philippe C ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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DOI: 10.1002/0471678856.ch1     Document Type: Review

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