A combined crossed molecular beam and ab initio study of the reactions C2(X1Σg +, a3Πu) + C2H4 → n-C4H3(X2A′) + H(2S1/2)

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2001, Pages

  Balucani, Nadia ^a,b   Mebel, Alexander M ^a   Lee, Yuan T ^a   Kaiser, Ralf I ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ETHYLENE; GROUND STATE; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; RATE CONSTANTS;

DICARBON CLUSTERS;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

EID: 0035526019     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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