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The chemistry and prospects for interstellar detection of somedicyanoacetylenes and other cyanoacetylene-related species

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Recent cryochemical and photochemical findings for cyanoacetylene and cyanopolyacetylene-related molecules (including various isomeric species), backed up with quantum-chemical predictions, are analysed. A new class of interstellar molecules, distinguished by bare (hydrogen-less), unsaturated carbon-nitrogen chains of the general formula C n N2 is postulated. It is recommended to look for some relevant IR spectral features in space.

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Kołos, R., Grabowski, Z.R. The chemistry and prospects for interstellar detection of somedicyanoacetylenes and other cyanoacetylene-related species. Astrophysics and Space Science 271, 65–72 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002183604278

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