Phenomenological chemical reactivity theory for mobile electrons

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-54

  Gonzalez Suarez, Mauricio ^a   Aizman, Arie ^b   Contreras, Renato ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Phenomenological reactivity theory; Self and mutual softnesses; Semi empirical response functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951498093     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0674-1     Document Type: Article

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