Benzene dimer: Dynamic structure and thermodynamics derived from on-the-fly ab initio DFT-D molecular dynamic simulations

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1835-1840

  Rezáč, Jan ^a   Hobza, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 58149252302     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct8002282     Document Type: Article

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