The formation of NH+ following the reaction of N22+ with H2

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-156

  Lockyear, Jessica F ^a   Ricketts, Claire L ^a,b   Parkes, Michael A ^a   Price, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND FORMING; CENTRE OF MASS; COINCIDENCE TECHNIQUES; COLLISION ENERGIES; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; DICATIONS; ENCOUNTER COMPLEX; EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATE; MONOCATIONS; POSITION SENSITIVE; RATE COEFFICIENTS; REACTION CROSS-SECTIONS; SATURN'S MOONS; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSFER; STATIONARY POINTS; TITAN'S ATMOSPHERE;

ELECTRONIC STATES; EXCITED STATES; IONOSPHERE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79955644293     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00344a     Document Type: Article

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