Search of manifolds of nonsymmetric valley-ridge inflection points on the potential energy surface of HCN

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Schmidt, Benjamin ^a   Quapp, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Universität Leipzig ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Manifold of VRIs; Point bifurcation of reaction paths; Potential energy surface; Valley ridge inflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870331162     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-012-1305-9     Document Type: Article

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