Molecular tensegrity: Predicting 1,3-X- - -X distance in gas-phase MX n (n ≤ 4) compounds from atomic sizes

Current Science

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1505-1508

  Ganguly, Parthasarathy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Atomic size; Gas phase; Molecular tensegrity; Non bonded distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846326301     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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