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Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a protoplanetary disk

Bérenger Gans
Edwin Bergin
Jan Cami
John Black
Oskar Asvany
Boris Trahin
Stephan Schlemmer
Christiaan Boersma
Daniel Dicken
Meriem Elyajouri
Yoko Okada
Takashi Onaka
Marc Pound
Markus Röllig
Bethany Schefter
Benoit Tabone
Dries van de Putte
Mark Wolfire

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Forty years ago it was proposed that gas phase organic chemistry in the interstellar medium was initiated by the methyl cation CH + 3 (1-3), but hitherto it has not been observed outside the Solar System (4,5). Alternative routes involving processes on grain surfaces have been invoked
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hal-04207385 , version 1 (14-09-2023)

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Olivier Berné, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Ilane Schroetter, Javier Goicoechea, Ugo Jacovella, et al.. Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a protoplanetary disk. Nature, 2023, 621 (7977), pp.56-59. ⟨10.1038/s41586-023-06307-x⟩. ⟨hal-04207385⟩
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