NSF Division of Chemistry Highlight Template

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NSF Division of Chemistry Highlight Template
Principal Investigator Name/Institution Ralf I.
Kaiser, University of Hawaii Award Number
NSF-CRC 0627854 Highlight Title Untangling
Titans Cool Hydrocarbon Chemistry
Caption Crossed beam experiments, electronic
structure computations, and atmos- pheric
modeling showed that polyacetylenes can be formed
via bimolecular gas pha-se processes involving
ethynyl radical reactions with acetylene and
diacetylene. Credit Xibin Gu, Reaction Dynamics
Group, University of Hawaii at Manoa.