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Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a funct... 1978 2026 1994 2010 87.4k
  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density (1988)
    Chengteh Lee, Weitao Yang et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter
  2. Absolute hardness: companion parameter to absolute electronegativity (1983)
    Robert G. Parr, Ralph G. Pearson Journal of the American Chemical Society
  3. Electrophilicity Index (1999)
    Robert G. Parr, László von Szentpály et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  4. Density functional approach to the frontier-electron theory of chemical reactivity (1984)
    Robert G. Parr, Weitao Yang Journal of the American Chemical Society
  5. Electronegativity: The density functional viewpoint (1978)
    Robert G. Parr, Robert A. Donnelly et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics
  6. Density Functional Theory of Electronic Structure (1996)
    W. Kohn, Axel D. Becke et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry
  7. Density-Functional Theory for Fractional Particle Number: Derivative Discontinuities of the Energy (1982)
    John P. Perdew, Robert G. Parr et al. Physical Review Letters
  8. A Semi-Empirical Theory of the Electronic Spectra and Electronic Structure of Complex Unsaturated Molecules. I. (1953)
    Rudolph Pariser, Robert G. Parr The Journal of Chemical Physics
  9. Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules (1995)
    Robert G. Parr, Weitao Yang Oxford University Press eBooks
  10. Hardness, softness, and the fukui function in the electronic theory of metals and catalysis. (1985)
    Yang Wang, Robert G. Parr Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. A Semi-Empirical Theory of the Electronic Spectra and Electronic Structure of Complex Unsaturated Molecules. II (1953)
    Rudolph Pariser, Robert G. Parr The Journal of Chemical Physics
  12. Principle of maximum hardness (1991)
    Robert G. Parr, Pratim Kumar Chattaraj Journal of the American Chemical Society
  13. Density-Functional Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules (1995)
    Robert G. Parr, Weitao Yang Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  14. Variational Principles for Describing Chemical Reactions:  The Fukui Function and Chemical Hardness Revisited (2000)
    Paul W. Ayers, Robert G. Parr Journal of the American Chemical Society
  15. Activation hardness: new index for describing the orientation of electrophilic aromatic substitution (1990)
    Zhongxiang Zhou, Robert G. Parr Journal of the American Chemical Society
  16. HSAB principle (1991)
    Pratim Kumar Chattaraj, Hsing Lee et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  17. Density Functional Theory (1983)
    Robert G. Parr Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  18. New alternative to the Dunham potential for diatomic molecules (1973)
    Gary Simons, Robert G. Parr et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics
  19. Electron density, Kohn–Sham frontier orbitals, and Fukui functions (1984)
    Weitao Yang, Robert G. Parr et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics

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