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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 708, Issue 2, Pages 1452-1458Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/1452
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astrochemistry; ISM: molecules; molecular data; molecular processes
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of SPAIN [AYA2008-00446, AYA2009-05801-E/AYA]
- PCMI (INSU, CNRS)
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Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, we investigate the stable isomers of C-4(-), C4H and C4H-. Three of them are relevant for astrophysics and astrochemistry. These computations are performed using highly correlated ab initio methods and the aug-cc-pVXZ (X = T, Q) basis sets. In addition to the linear isomers, we predict the existence of several cyclic and branched forms for these molecules. For all the molecular species of interest here, sets of spectroscopic parameters are determined with perturbation theory, which compare quite well with experiment. For l - C4H-(X1 Sigma(+)), the quartic force field is computed at the coupled cluster level of theory. This force field is derived from full nine-dimensional potential energy surface generated close to the equilibrium geometry of this anion. Finally, we treat the thermochemistry of the hydrogen attachment and the electron attachment reactions that may lead to the formation of the C4H- from either C-4(-) or C4H.
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