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Isotopic Effect in Double Proton Transfer Process of Porphycene Investigated by Enhanced QM/MM Method
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An unexpected bonding interaction between dxy and a1u orbitals mediated by porphyrin deformation

Ru-Jen Cheng1, Yen-Ku Wang, Ping-Yu Chen

  • 1Department of Chemistry, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 402, Republic of China. rjcheng@mail.nchu.edu.tw

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 3, 2005
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