Are roaming and conventional saddle points for H2CO and CH 3CHO dissociation to molecular products isolated from each other?

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 834-838

  Shepler, Benjamin C ^a,b   Han, Yongchang ^a   Bowman, Joel M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO AND CH; DYNAMICAL APPROACHES; HIGH-LEVEL AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; INTRINSIC REACTION; REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY; SADDLE POINT; UNIMOLECULAR DISSOCIATION;

CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

DISSOCIATION;

EID: 79953798950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2002138     Document Type: Article

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