Predicting Bond Dissociation Energies and Bond Lengths of Coordinatively Unsaturated Vanadium–Ligand Bonds
- Award ID(s):
- 1900086
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10250246
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Volume:
- 124
- Issue:
- 47
- ISSN:
- 1089-5639
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 9757 to 9770
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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