Theoretical study of glycine conformers

Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 889-909

  Ke, Hong Wei ^a   Rao, Li ^b   Xu, Xin ^b   Yan, Yi Jing ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DFT; Glycine conformer; MP2; PCM

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449107729     PISSN: 02196336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219633608004192     Document Type: Article

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