Actinoid(III) Hydration-First Principle Gibbs Energies of Hydration Using High Level Correlation Methods

Norah Heinz1, Jun Zhang1, Michael Dolg1

  • 1Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität zu Köln , Greinstraße 4, D-50939 Cologne, Germany.

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