The Shape of the Archetypical Oxocarbon Squaric Acid and Its Water Clusters

Miguel Sanz-Novo1, Elena R Alonso1, Iker León1

  • 1Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Edificio Quifima Laboratorios de EspectroscopíayBioespectroscopía, Unidad Asociada CSIC, Parque Científico Uva, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belén 5, 47011, Valladolid, Spain.

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