Local Bond-Stretch Coordinates for Anharmonic Vibrational Computations

Sebastian Riis Thomsen1, Nicolai Machholdt Høyer1, Mads Greisen Højlund1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark.

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