Resonance revisited: A consideration of the calculation of cyclic conjugation energies

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 584-593

  Chesnut, D B ^a   Davis, K M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748509713     PISSN: 01928651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(199703)18:4<584::AID-JCC11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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