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The importance of the external potential on group electronegativity

Tom Leyssens1, Paul Geerlings, Daniel Peeters

  • 1Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, Bâtiment Lavoisier, Université catholique de Louvain, place Louis Pasteur 1, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. t.leyssens@chim.ucl.ac.be

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A
|July 13, 2006
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