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Research Topics:
   Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs)

  The Spectra and the Vibrations

 Non-Planar Porphyrins

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The Queen's University of Belfast

List of references used in these pages

  1. Oakes R.E., Beattie J.R., Moss B.W., Bell S.E.J. Conformations, Vibrational Frequencies and Raman Intensities of Short-Chain Fatty Acid Methyl Esters using DFT with 6-31G(d) and Sadlej pVTZ Basis Sets. Journal of Molecular Structure Journal of Molecular Structure - Theochem Vol 586, Issue 1-3, p 91-110
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  8. Sadlej AJ. Sadlej's polarised electric property basis set was obtained from the Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment Basis Set Database, Version 1.0 Pacific Northwest Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352 (http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:/2080/forms/basisform.html). In.