Delocalization error and "functional tuning" in Kohn-Sham calculations of molecular properties

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2592-2602

  Autschbach, Jochen ^a   Srebro, Monika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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EID: 84906245056     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar500171t     Document Type: Article

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