Abdul Rahman Al Nabulsi, Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh, Ramón Alain Miranda-Quintana, Paul W. Ayers
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Abstract
We perform a thorough test of the “ big is good” principle (DMB) using double-exchange reactions between diatomic molecules. We conclude that DMB is “not bad” at predicting whether or not a reaction will be favorable, but its performance is inferior to alternatives like the maximum hardness principle.
期刊介绍:
Since its first formulation quantum chemistry has provided the conceptual and terminological framework necessary to understand atoms, molecules and the condensed matter. Over the past decades synergistic advances in the methodological developments, software and hardware have transformed quantum chemistry in a truly interdisciplinary science that has expanded beyond its traditional core of molecular sciences to fields as diverse as chemistry and catalysis, biophysics, nanotechnology and material science.