Hydrogen transfer between dimethyl ether and the methoxy radical: Understanding and kinetic modeling with anharmonic torsions

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1089, Issue , 2016, Pages 43-53

  Guan, Yulei ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Zhao, Lida ^a   Song, Yiming ^a   Ma, Haixia ^a   Song, Jirong ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anharmonic torsion; Computational chemistry; Hydrogen abstraction; Kinetic modeling; Tunneling correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969902768     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2016.05.011     Document Type: Article

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