The introduction of chemistry into astronomy is relatively recent and can be dated back to
about half a century ago, when molecules were discovered in space. In the 1930s it was …

▪ Abstract This review discusses recent quantum scattering calculations on bimolecular
chemical reactions in the gas phase. This theory provides detailed and accurate predictions …

There has been great progress in the development of potential energy surfaces (PESs) for
reaction dynamics that are fits to ab initio energies. The fitting techniques described here …

There is now ample evidence from an assortment of experiments, especially those involving
the CRESU (Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme) technique, that …

Evolved stars are foundries of chemical complexity, gas and dust that provide the building
blocks of planets and life, and dust nucleation first occurs in their photosphere. The …

A new era in chemical kinetics was heralded 20 years ago by the results reported by
Bertrand Rowe, then at the Laboratoire d AØrothermique in Meudon.[1] Using an apparatus …

Linear carbon chains are common in various types of astronomical molecular sources.
Possible formation mechanisms involve both bottom-up and top-down routes. We have …

We report the detection of linear and cyclic isomers of C3H and C3H2 towards various
starless cores and review the corresponding chemical pathways involving neutral (C3H x …

The interdisciplinary science of astrochemistry is 45 years of age, if we pinpoint its origin to
have occurred when the first polyatomic molecules were detected in the interstellar gas …

In this paper we study the oxygen chemistry in the C-rich circumstellar shells of IRC+ 10216.
The recent discoveries of oxygen-bearing species (water, hydroxyl radical, and …