Chemical dynamics of triacetylene formation and implications to the synthesis of polyynes in Titan's atmosphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16078-16083

  Gu, X ^a   Kim, Y S ^a   Kaiser, R I ^a   Mebel, A M ^b   Liang, M C ^c,d,e   Yung, Y L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossed molecular beams; Electronic structure calculations; Photochemical model; Planetary chemistry

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE DERIVATIVE; TRIACETYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

ACETYLENE; ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYACETYLENES; SATURN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 70349583009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900525106     Document Type: Article

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