Population Analysis and Electron Densities from Quantum Mechanics

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-227

  Bachrach, Steven M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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