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The Formation of Complex Interstellar Molecules by Radiative Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

E. Herbst
E. Herbst*
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

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A new statistical theory of ion-molecule association reaction rate coefficients has been formulated and found to give good agreement with three-body association rate coefficients studied in the laboratory in the temperature range 100-300 K (Herbst 1979a). The theory indicates that certain radiative association reactions proceed rapidly at low interstellar temperatures to produce complex interstellar molecules, as suggested by Smith and Adams (1978).

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 87: Interstellar Molecules , 1980 , pp. 317 - 321
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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