Crossed molecular beam studies of astronomically relevant bimolecular reactions

Rendiconti Lincei

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 173-181

  Balucani, Nadia ^a   Casavecchia, Piergiorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemistry of planetary atmospheres; Chemistry of the interstellar medium; Elementary reactions

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR REACTION; BRANCHING RATIO; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; COMPLEX MOLECULES; CROSSED MOLECULAR BEAMS; ELEMENTARY REACTION; ELEMENTARY REACTIONS; EXO-PLANETS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; GASPHASE; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULAR SPECIES; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETS AND SATELLITES; POLYATOMIC MOLECULES; REALISTIC MODELING;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; MOLECULAR BEAMS; SATELLITES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 81855185593     PISSN: 20374631     EISSN: 17200776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12210-011-0128-2     Document Type: Article

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