Pure hydrocarbon cycles in TMC-1: Discovery of ethynyl cyclopropenylidene, cyclopentadiene, and indene
A&A, 649 (2021) L15
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Spectral survey of the diffuse gas toward BL Lac in the Q band
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Centimeter-Wave Rotational Spectroscopy of Ethynylbenzonitriles: Structural Analysis and Astronomical Search
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Detection of the linear SiC3 and SiC5 radicals in IRC+10216
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Rotational spectroscopy and astronomical search of the HCCSO radical
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Extending the rotational spectrum of cyclopentadiene towards higher frequencies and vibrational states
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Gas‐Phase Conformational Landscape and Ring‐Puckered Structure of 1‐aminoindane
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From Anti‐Van't Hoff Le Bel Molecules of C6NH to Astronomically Relevant and Experimentally Known and Unknown Carbenes
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The missing giant: do FAST spectroscopic observations reveal a scarcity of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in astronomical environments?
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1393
The role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in astrochemical modeling at different evolutionary stages of cold dense cloud cores
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https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452590
Shock-induced evolution: Tracing the fate of coronene in astrophysical environments
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https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202556417
Vibrational perturbations in the spectra of N-substituted polycyclic aromatic heterocycles revealed by rotational analysis
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https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP04769A
Ultrafast dynamics of fluorene initiated by highly intense laser fields
Diksha Garg, Pragya Chopra, Jason W. L. Lee, Denis S. Tikhonov, Sonu Kumar, Oender Akcaalan, Felix Allum, Rebecca Boll, Alexander A. Butler, Benjamin Erk, Eva Gougoula, Sébastien P. Gruet, Lanhai He, David Heathcote, Ellen Jones, Mehdi M. Kazemi, Jan Lahl, Alexander K. Lemmens, Zhihao Liu, Donatella Loru, Sylvain Maclot, Robert Mason, James Merrick, Erland Müller, Terry Mullins, et al.Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26 (30) 20261 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP05063G
Cyano-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Interstellar Candidates: Laboratory Identification, Equilibrium Structure and Astronomical Search of Cyanobiphenylene
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01500
Noncovalent Interactions Steer the Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c03395
Rotational spectroscopy of 2,4,6-cycloheptatriene-1-carbonitrile: facilitating the search for complex cyclic molecules in the ISM
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https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP01899K
On the Origin of Infrared Bands Attributed to Tryptophan in Spitzer Observations of IC 348
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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad4d9a
First close-coupling study of the excitation of a large cyclic molecule: collision of c-C5H6 with He
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https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP01380H
Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C10H8)2
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https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP01200C
The isomer distribution of C6H6 products from the propargyl radical gas-phase recombination investigated by threshold-photoelectron spectroscopy
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First direct detection of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on asteroid (162173) Ryugu samples: An interstellar heritage
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20240010
Exploring the chemical dynamics of phenanthrene (C14H10) formation via the bimolecular gas-phase reaction of the phenylethynyl radical (C6H5CC) with benzene (C6H6)
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https://doi.org/10.1039/D3FD00159H