Carbon Tunneling from a Single Quantum State

@article{Zuev2003CarbonTF,  title={Carbon Tunneling from a Single Quantum State},  author={Peter S. Zuev and Robert S. Sheridan and Titus V. Albu and Donald G. Truhlar and David A. Hrovat and Weston Thatcher Borden},  journal={Science},  year={2003},  volume={299},  pages={867 - 870},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20959068}}
Calculations indicated that at this temperature the reaction proceeds from a single quantum state of the reactant so that the computed rate constant has achieved a temperature-independent limit.

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