Copper(I) carbene hydride complexes acting both as reducing agent and precursor for Cu ALD: A study through density functional theory

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Dey, Gangotri ^a   Elliott, Simon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ALD; Carbene hydride; CU; DFT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897602252     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-013-1416-y     Document Type: Article

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