Result: The detection of free radicals in the laboratory and in astrophysical media : Commentary on an article of Goldfinger, le Goff and Letort

Title:
The detection of free radicals in the laboratory and in astrophysical media : Commentary on an article of Goldfinger, le Goff and Letort
Authors:
Source:
Un siècle de chimie physique : 1903-1999Journal de chimie physique. :109-115
Publisher Information:
Les Ulis: EDP Sciences, 2000.
Publication Year:
2000
Physical Description:
print, Illustration, 36 ref HS
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Academic journal Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Département Atomes et Molécules en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 5 place Jules-Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
ISSN:
0021-7689
Rights:
Copyright 2000 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Astronomy
Accession Number:
edscal.1309710
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

A Paneth-Rice metallic mirror technique study of CH2 production in an electric discharge through various molecules, and correlation with the emission spectra of these discharges, enabled Goldfinger et al. to refute the Swings-Herzberg assignment to the CH2 radical of the cometary and laboratory 405 nm emission spectrum. Developments since 1950 concerning the spectroscopic identification of free radicals in the laboratory and in astrophysical media are discussed and a plea is made for use of the imaginative approach of Goldfinger et al. to resolve present problems of the assignment of astrophysical spectra.