Addition of one and two units of C2H to styrene: A theoretical study of the C10H9 and C12H9 systems and implications toward growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at low temperatures

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Landera, Alexander ^a   Kaiser, Ralf I ^b   Mebel, Alexander M ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-HEXENE; AB INITIO; AROMATIC RINGS; BRANCHING RATIO; DOMINANT PRODUCT; ETHYNYL; ETHYNYL RADICALS; EXOTHERMICITY; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH; LOW TEMPERATURES; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVES; PRODUCT BRANCHING RATIOS; REACTION CHANNELS; RING CLOSURES; RRKM CALCULATIONS; SIDE CHAINS; SINGLE-COLLISION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TITAN'S ATMOSPHERE; TRANSITION STATE; VERY LOW TEMPERATURES;

ADDITION REACTIONS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; AROMATIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BENZENE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; STYRENE; SURFACE REACTIONS;

NAPHTHALENE;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; STYRENE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78751537909     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3526957     Document Type: Article

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