Determining the Factors Accounting for Reaction Selectivity: A Relative Energy Gradient - Interacting Quantum Atoms

Aël Cador1, Christophe Morell2, Vincent Tognetti1

  • 1Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821, Mont St Aignan Cedex, France.

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