Density functional theory study of BnC clusters

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1315-1322

  Liu, Chunhui ^a   Han, Peilin ^a   Tang, Mingsheng ^b  

^a XUCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONS;

ATOMIC BINDING; CYCLIC STRUCTURES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL-THEORY; ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION; ELECTRON DETACHMENT ENERGIES; ORBITAL ANALYSIS; RELATIVE STABILITIES; STABLE CONFIGURATION; VERTICAL ELECTRON DETACHMENT ENERGIES;

MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

EID: 79954440883     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4992     Document Type: Article

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