A combined experimental and computational investigation of the microscopic external heavy atom effect in van der

Richard J Doyle1, Raffaello Da Campo, Peter R Taylor

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

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