Metadynamics as a tool for exploring free energy landscapes of chemical reactions

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 73-81

  Ensing, Bernd ^a   De Vivo, Marco ^a   Liu, Zhiwei ^a,c   Moore, Preston ^b,c   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 33644968698     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar040198i     Document Type: Article

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