Abstract
In the gas-phase theory of the chemistry in dense interstellar clouds most polyatomic neutral molecules are assumed to be formed by dissociative recombination reactions in which a positive molecular ion captures an electron and dissociates into neutral fragments. The physical process of dissociative recombination was introduced by Bates and Massey [1] to account for the rapid rate of recombination of various molecular ions in the upper atmosphere of the Earth. Since then this reaction has also come to be recognized as an important process in plasmas, lasers, and in interstellar molecular clouds. The subject has been reviewed by several authors [2–8].
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