Chemical Reactions in Astrochemistry

Chemical reactions.

Chemical salt reactions as algebraic hyperstructures

A salt metathesis reaction is a chemical process involving the exchange of bonds between two reacting chemical species, which results in the creation of products with similar or identical bonding affiliations. Hyperstructure theory is studied from the theoretical point of view and for its applications. In this paper, we provide some examples of hyperstructures associated with salt m...

Astrochemistry and Observations

The past few years has seen dramatic improvements in our ability to extract chemical information from molecular line observations. These advances have been driven by new observational platforms and techniques. In the following I will outline the various methods and uncertainties in computing chemical information from observations across the spectrum of star formation activity (from diffuse clou...

Dynamics in Tangible Chemical Reactions

Spatial understanding and the understanding of dynamic change in the spatial structure of molecules during a reaction is essential for designing new molecules. Knowing the physical processes in the reactions helps to speed up the designing process. To support the designer with the correct representation of the designed molecule as well as showing the dynamic behavior of the whole reacting syste...

Quantum Indistinguishability in Chemical Reactions

Quantum indistinguishability plays a crucial role in many low-energy physical phenomena, from quantum fluids to molecular spectroscopy. It is, however, typically ignored in most high temperature processes, particularly for ionic coordinates, implicitly assumed to be distinguishable, incoherent and thus well-approximated classically. We explore chemical reactions involving small symmetric molecu...