Studies of reactions relevant to astrochemistry
Abstract
We review experimental studies of bimolecular exchange reactions between neutral species that can occur in dense molecular clouds: kinetics experiments performed with the so-called CRESU technique which measure global reaction rates and dynamics measurements performed with crossed molecular beam apparatuses which bring information on the products and branching ratios. Special attention is devoted to reactions of the carbon atom which may contribute to the synthesis of long polyyne or polyene chains. Results on the reactions of C(3PJ) atoms with