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What are the products of polyatomic ion-electron dissociative recombination reactions

Eric Herbst

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A statistical theory of polyatomic ion-electron dissociative recombination reactions is presented and applied to the calculation of branching ratios for the various sets of neutral products of the reactions HCNH(+) + e, H3O(+) + e, CH3(+) + e, and NH4(+) + e, all thought to be important in interstellar cloud chemistry.

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Key concepts: Dissociative recombination, Polyatomic ion, Interstellar cloud, Physics, Ion, Dissociation (chemistry), Atomic physics, Cosmochemistry