The concept of protobranching and its many paradigm shifting implications for energy evaluations.

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Published in Chemistry on January 01, 2007

Authors

Matthew D Wodrich1, Chaitanya S Wannere, Yirong Mo, Peter D Jarowski, Kendall N Houk, Paul von Ragué Schleyer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

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