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Extremely floppy molecules are not describable by the traditional picture of a ball-and-stick molecular structure. Their ground state wave function is highly delocalized and a number of large amplitude motions makes it impossible to define a fixed equilibrium structure. In this chapter, the most basic properties of this class of molecules is introduced and an outlook on the following chapters is given, where a fundamentally new approach for describing the respective dynamics is developed.
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Schmiedt, H. (2017). Introducing Extreme Floppiness. In: Molecular Symmetry, Super-Rotation, and Semiclassical Motion. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 97. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66071-4_5
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