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Paul L. A. Popelier

The University of ManchesterIN
ORCID0000-0001-9053-1363
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Paul L. A. Popelier is a researcher affiliated with The University of Manchester. With over 313 publications spanning multiple decades, his work focuses on quantitative structure-toxicity relationships and chemometric modeling. He has explored predictive models using quantum topological molecular similarity descriptors for toxicity prediction and developed transparent and interpretable QSAR models.

Research areas

  • Chemistry
  • Computer science
  • Molecule
  • Physics
  • Quantum mechanics

Publications (313)

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  1. 71 cites
  2. How to Embrace the Quantum Topological Atom

    Handbook of electronic structure methods and applications2026book chapter

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  3. CHQuant: A Protocol for Quantifying Conformational Sampling with Convex Hulls

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2026journal article

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  4. Quantum Mechanics and Human Dynamics

    Pure and Applied Chemistry2025journal article

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  5. Modeling Many-Body Interactions in Water with Gaussian Process Regression

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A2024journal article

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  6. Towards Gaussian Process Regression modelling of a Urea Force Field

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A2024journal article

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  9. Calibration of uncertainty in the active learning of machine learning force fields

    Machine Learning: Science and Technology2023journal article

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  10. Application of the FFLUX Force Field to Molecular Crystals: A Study of Formamide

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2023journal article

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  11. REG-MULTI: Lifting the Veil on Electrostatic Interactions

    Advances in Quantum Chemistry2023book chapter

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  12. How to Compute Atomistic Insight in DFT Clusters: The REG-IQA Approach

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2023journal article

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  13. Gaussian Process Regression Models for Predicting Atomic Energies and Multipole Moments

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2023journal article

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  16. Flexible multipole moments in smooth particle mesh Ewald

    The Journal of Chemical Physics2022journal article

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  17. DL_FFLUX: a parallel, quantum chemical topology force field

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2021preprint

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  18. On the many‐body nature of intramolecular forces in FFLUX and its implications

    Journal of Computational Chemistry2021journal article

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  21. Nine Question on Energy Decomposition Analysis

    Journal of Computational Chemistry2019journal article

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  22. Description of Potential Energy Surfaces of Molecules Using FFLUX Machine Learning Models

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2019journal article

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  25. Machine Learning of Dynamic Electron Correlation Energies from Topological Atoms

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2018journal article

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  29. Quantifying Electron Correlation of the Chemical Bond

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters2017journal article

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  30. Toward amino acid typing for proteins in FFLUX

    Journal of Computational Chemistry2016journal article

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  31. Exponential Relationships Capturing Atomistic Short-Range Repulsion from the Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA) Method

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment and General Theory2016journal article

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  32. FEREBUS: Highly Parallelized Engine for Kriging Training

    Journal of Computational Chemistry2016journal article

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  33. Kriging atomic properties with a variable number of inputs

    The Journal of chemical physics2016journal article

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  34. Polarizable multipolar electrostatics for cholesterol

    Chemical Physics Letters2016journal article

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  36. Molecular simulation by knowledgeable quantum atoms

    Physica Scripta2016journal article

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  37. Hydrogen-Bond Accepting Properties of New Heteroaromatic Ring Chemical Motifs: A Theoretical Study

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2016journal article

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  38. The AIBLHiCoS method

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2016journal article

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  39. Prediction of Conformationally Dependent Atomic Multipole Moments in Carbohydrates

    Journal of Computational Chemistry2015journal article

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  40. The Raman Optical Activity of β-D-xylose

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics2015journal article

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  41. Transferable Atoms: The Topological Energy Partitioning (TEP) Perspective

    Theoretical Chemistry Group Graduate Student Meeting, The University of Manchester, 22/04/152015conference poster

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  43. Methodology Matters

    International Innovation2013journal article

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  44. Characterization of heterocyclic rings through quantum chemical topology

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2013journal article

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  46. PKa Prediction from an ab initio bond length: Part 2 - Phenols

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics2011journal article

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  47. PKa prediction from an ab initio bond length: Part 3 - Benzoic acids and anilines

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics2011journal article

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  48. Nature of chemical interactions from the profiles of electron delocalization indices

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2011journal article

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  49. Models for Bonding in Chemistry by V. Magnasco. Book Review

    Chemistry World2011journal article

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  51. Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS)

    Quantum Biochemistry|Quantum Biochemistry2010book chapter

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  52. In silico techniques for the identification of bioisosteric replacements for drug design

    Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry2010journal article

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  53. Potential energy surfaces fitted by Artificial Neural Networks

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A2010journal article

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  54. Prediction of the basicities of pyridines in the gas phase and in aqueous solution

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2010journal article

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  55. pKa prediction from "quantum chemical topology" descriptors

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling2009journal article

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  56. Dynamically polarizable water potential based on multipole moments trained by machine learning

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2009journal article

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  57. Role of short-range electrostatics in torsional potentials

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A2008journal article

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  58. Quantum topological QSAR models based on the MOLMAP approach

    Chemical Biology and Drug Design2008journal article

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  59. Beyond point charges: Dynamic polarization from neural net predicted multipole moments

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation2008journal article

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  60. Exploring predictive QSAR models for hepatocyte toxicity of phenols using QTMS descriptors

    Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters2008journal article

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  61. The asymptotic behavior of the dipole and quadrupole moment of a single water molecule from gas phase to large clusters: A QCT analysis

    Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry2008journal article

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  62. Topological Atom-Atom Partitioning of Molecular Exchange Energy and its Multipolar Convergence

    The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules: From Solid State to DNA and Drug Design|The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules: From Solid State to DNA and Drug Des.2007book chapter

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  65. QSAR models based on quantum topological molecular similarity

    European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry2006journal article

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  66. A convergent multipole expansion for 1,3 and 1,4 Coulomb interactions

    Journal of Chemical Physics2006journal article

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  67. Rendering of quantum topological atoms and bonds

    Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling2005journal article

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  69. Quantum chemical topology: On bonds and potentials

    Structure and Bonding|Struct. Bond.2005book chapter

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  71. Simulation of liquid water using a high-rank quantum topological electrostatic potential

    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry2004journal article

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  72. The quantum topological electrostatic potential as a probe for functional group transferability

    Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography2004journal article

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  73. Functional groups expressed as graphs extracted from the Laplacian of the electron density

    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry2003journal article

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  74. The elusive atomic rationale for DNA base pair stability

    Journal of the American Chemical Society2002journal article

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  75. Distributed response analysis of conductive behavior in single molecules

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2002journal article

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  76. Convergence of the electrostatic interaction based on topological atoms

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A2001journal article

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  78. Atomic partitioning of molecular electrostatic potentials

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A2000journal article

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  79. Molecular Atoms compute the future of chemistry

    Scientific Computing World1999journal article

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  80. Characterization of an agostic bond on the basis of the electron density

    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry1998journal article

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  81. Characterization of a dihydrogen bond on the basis of the electron density

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A1998journal article

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  82. The polarizabilities of halide ions in crystals

    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter1997journal article

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  83. Integration of atoms in molecules : A critical examination

    MOLECULAR PHYSICS1996journal article

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  84. MORPHY, a program for an automated "atoms in molecules" analysis

    Computer Physics Communications1996journal article

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  85. Conformational dependence of atomic multipole moments

    Chemical Physics Letters1995journal article

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  86. Similarity and complementarity in chemistry

    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM1992journal article

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  87. On Topological Atoms and Bonds

    Intermolecular Interactions in Crystals1970book chapter

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  88. Distinguishing Epimers Through Raman Optical Activity

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment and General Theory1970journal article

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  89. On Quantum Chemical Topology

    Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry1970book chapter

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  90. Optimization Algorithms in Optimal Predictions of Atomistic Properties by Kriging

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation1970journal article

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  92. QCTFF: on the construction of a novel protein force field

    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry1970journal article

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  94. Six questions on topology in theoretical chemistry

    Computational and Theoretical Chemistry1970journal article

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  95. A Novel Interpretation Of The Rotation Barrier In Biphenyl: Are Textbooks Misleading?

    odeling cellular life: From single molecules to cellular function, CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 19/08/131970conference poster

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  96. Characterising Heterocyclic Rings Through Quantum Chemical Topology

    Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry 38,1970book chapter

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  97. Comprehensive Analysis of Energy Minima of the 20 Natural Amino Acids

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A1970journal article

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  98. Multipolar Electrostatics for Proteins: Atom-Atom Electrostatic Energies in Crambin

    Journal of Computational Chemistry1970journal article

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  99. Multipolar electrostatics

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics1970journal article

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  100. The QTAIM Perspective of Chemical Bonding

    The Nature of the Chemical Bond Revisited1970book chapter

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  101. The hydration of serine: multipole moments versus point charges

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics1970journal article

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  102. Theoretical Prediction of Hydrogen-Bond Basicity pKBHX Using Quantum Chemical Topology Descriptors

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling1970journal article

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  103. Unified approach to multipolar polarisation and charge transfer for ions: microhydrated Na+

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics1970journal article

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  104. A generic force field based on Quantum Chemical Topology

    Modern Charge Density Analysis1970book chapter

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  105. New insights in atom-atom interactions for future drug design

    Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry1970journal article

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  106. Perspectives from Medicinal Chemistry

    Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry1970book chapter

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  107. Quantum Chemical Topology in Drug Design

    RSC Drug Discovery Series No. 20: Drug Design Strategies.1970book chapter

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  108. Quantum Chemical Topology: Knowledgeable Atoms in Peptides

    AIP Conference Proceedings1970journal article

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  109. Atomis in Molecules and Population Analysis

    Chemical Reactivity Theory. A Density Functional View1970book chapter

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  113. Preface

    Faraday Discussions1970journal article

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  114. "Quantum Leaps" Book review

    Chemistry & Industry1970journal article

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  115. Towards a Force Field via Quantum Chemical Topology

    Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences1970journal article

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  116. A topological study of homonuclear multiple bonds between the elements of group 14

    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions1970journal article

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  117. Design and quantification of a nanoscale field effect transistor: Distributed response analysis for investigating conductive behaviour

    Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings|Mater Res Soc Symp Proc1970book chapter

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  118. Quantum topological Atoms

    Royal Society of Chemistry Specialist Periodical Report1970book chapter

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  120. Distributed Response Analysis of the Water Dimer

    Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society1970book chapter

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  122. Quantum Molecular Similarity. 3. QTMS Descriptors

    Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences1970journal article

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  123. Atoms in Molecules

    Specialist Periodical Report1970book chapter

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  124. On the full topology of the Laplacian of the electron density

    Coordination Chemistry Reviews1970journal article

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  125. Quantum molecular similarity: Use of atoms in molecules derived quantities as QSAR variables

    European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2000|Eur. Congr. Comput. Methods Appl. Sci. Eng., ECCOMAS1970conference paper

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  126. Quantum Molecular Similarity. 1. BCP Space

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A1970journal article

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  127. On the differential geometry of interatomic surfaces

    Canadian Journal of Chemistry1970journal article

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  128. The electron pair

    Journal of Physical Chemistry1970journal article

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  129. Topological studies of the charge density of some group 2 metallocenes M(eta(5)-C5H5)(2) (M=Mg or Ca)

    Canadian Journal of Chemistry-Revue Canadienne De Chimie1970journal article

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  130. Characterization of C-H-O hydrogen bonds on the basis of the charge density

    Journal of Physical Chemistry1970journal article

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  131. Molecular Similarity and Complementarity based on the Theory of Atoms in Molecules

    Molecular Similarity in Drug Design1970book chapter

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  133. Effect of twisting a polypeptide on its geometry and electron distribution

    Journal of Physical Chemistry1970journal article

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  134. Theoretical definition of a functional group and the molecular orbital paradigm

    Angewandte Chemie - International Edition1970journal article

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  136. ATOMIC THEOREMS

    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry1970journal article

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  137. The Heptadecagon : A curious Object....

    Mathematical Education1970journal article

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  138. STRUCTURES OF CUBIC AND ORTHORHOMBIC PHASES OF ACETYLENE BY SINGLE-CRYSTAL NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION

    Acta Crystallographica Section B-Structural Science1970journal article

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  140. Towards an atomistic understanding of polymorphism in molecular solids

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics1970journal article

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  141. AN ABINITIO STUDY OF CRYSTAL-FIELD EFFECTS - SOLID-STATE AND GAS-PHASE GEOMETRY OF ACETAMIDE

    Journal of the American Chemical Society1970journal article

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  142. LITHIUM HYDROGEN MALEATE DIHYDRATE

    Acta Crystallographica Section C-Crystal Structure Communications1970journal article

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  143. ABINITIO STUDIES OF CRYSTAL-FIELD EFFECTS IN ACETYLENE

    Acta Chemica Scandinavica. Series A, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry1970journal article

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  144. Polarisation Induced Hydrogen Shifts in Lithium Hydrogen Maleate

    Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie1970other

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