Updated branching plane for finding conical intersections without coupling derivative vectors

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1538-1545

  Maeda, Satoshi ^a,b,c   Ohno, Koichi ^b   Morokuma, Keiji ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952334627     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct1000268     Document Type: Article

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