Characterization of the elusive conformers of glycine from state-of-the-art structural, thermodynamic, and spectroscopic computations: Theory complements experiment

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1533-1547

  Barone, Vincenzo ^a   Biczysko, Malgorzata ^b   Bloino, Julien ^a,c   Puzzarini, Cristina ^d  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NEST   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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EID: 84874888544     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct3010672     Document Type: Article

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