In order to assist the interpretation of the spectra recorded
in this work, computations in
GAUSSIAN
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using den-
sity functional theory (DFT)
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were performed for all sub-
stances. The Becke, 3-parameter, Lee-Yang-Parr (B3LYP)
functional,
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,
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which has been used in several previous
works on diamondoids was employed,
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