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Cristina Consani1, Stefan Ruetzel, Patrick Nuernberger

  • 1Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg , Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A
|November 21, 2014
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