Discovery of interstellar 2-cyanoindene (2-C9H7CN) in GOTHAM observations of TMC-1

ML Sita, PB Changala, C Xue… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present laboratory rotational spectroscopy of five isomers of cyanoindene (2-, 4-, 5-, 6-,
and 7-cyanoindene) using a cavity Fourier transform microwave spectrometer operating …

Detections of interstellar aromatic nitriles 2-cyanopyrene and 4-cyanopyrene in TMC-1

G Wenzel, TH Speak, PB Changala, RHJ Willis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most widespread compounds in
the universe, accounting for up to~ 25% of all interstellar carbon. Since most unsubstituted …

Low-temperature reaction dynamics of paramagnetic species in the gas phase

LY Wu, C Miossec, BR Heazlewood - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Radicals are abundant in a range of important gas-phase environments. They are prevalent
in the atmosphere, in interstellar space, and in combustion processes. As such …

Quantum information scrambling in molecules

C Zhang, PG Wolynes, M Gruebele - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be used to probe how quickly a quantum system
scrambles information when the initial conditions of the dynamics are changed. In sufficiently …

Hunting the relatives of benzonitrile: Rotational spectroscopy of dicyanobenzenes

O Chitarra, KLK Lee, Z Buchanan, M Melosso… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The recent interstellar detections of–CN containing aromatic species, namely
benzonitrile, 1-cyanonaphthalene, and 2-cyanonaphthalene, bring renewed interest in …

From Benzonitrile to Dicyanobenzenes: The Effect of an Additional CN Group on the Thermochemistry and Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectra of Dicyanobenzene …

KT Workman, RA Firth, WK Gichuhi - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The negative ion photoelectron spectra of 1, 2-dicyanobenzene (o-DCNB), 1, 3-
dicyanobenzene (m-DCNB), and 1, 4-dicyanobenzene (p-DCNB) radical anions (DCNB·–) …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a predictive model for low-temperature Laval nozzles with applications in chemical kinetics

L Driver, K Douglas, DI Lucas, T Guillaume… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Laval nozzles are used in the CRESU (“Cinétique de Réaction en Écoulement
Supersonique Uniforme”) method to generate a collimated low temperature (5–200 K), low …

Reactions dynamics for X+ H2 insertion reactions (X= C (1D), N (2D), O (1D), S (1D)) with Cayley propagator ring-polymer molecular dynamics

W Jiang, Y Chen, Y Li - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, rate coefficients of four prototypical insertion reactions, X+ H 2→ H+ XH (X= C (1
D), N (2 D), O (1 D), S (1 D)), and associated isotope reactions are calculated based on ring …

Detections of interstellar 2-cyanopyrene and 4-cyanopyrene in TMC-1

G Wenzel, TH Speak, PB Changala, RHJ Willis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most ubiquitous compounds in the
universe, accounting for up to~ 25% of all interstellar carbon. Since most unsubstituted …

Combined experimental and theoretical study on photoionization cross sections of benzonitrile and o/m/p-cyanotoluene

J Huang, C Huang, X Wu, Q Hou, G Tian… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Photoionization cross sections (PICSs) for the products of the reaction from CN with toluene,
including benzonitrile and o/m/p-cyanotoluene, were obtained at photon energies ranging …