ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
We have calculated the capture rate coefficients for collisions of C (3Pj) and Ge (1S0) with unsaturated hydrocarbons and compared them with the experiments of Husain and co-workers [Clary, Haider, Husain, and Kabir, Astrophys. J. 422, 416 (1994); Husain, Ioannou, and Kabir, Z. Phys. Chemie 203, 213 (1998)]. Our findings indicate (i) that all nine electronic surfaces for the C (3P) reactions must contribute to the observed reaction rate coefficients, (ii) a central multipole approach is inappropriate for calculating the capture rate coefficients involving the larger hydrocarbons, (iii) the trends observed in the measured rate coefficients for the Ge and C reactions can simply be understood in terms of the physical size of the hydrocarbons, and (iv) the electrostatic interaction plays a significant role in the determination of capture rate coefficients for reactions involving C (3P) and highly polar species as well as acetylene. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1371957
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