"Gas phase synthesis of interstellar cumulenes : mass spectrometric and theoretical studies" / by Stephen J. Blanksby.

Copies of author's previously published articles inserted.Supplement entitled: Addressing referee concerns, stapled to back end paper (5 leaves).Bibliography: leaves 199-212.xii, 212 leaaves : ill. ; 30 cm.Presents methodologies for the synthesis of charged analogues of a number of molecular species residing in the large gas clouds which are present in regions of interstellar and circumstellar space. Quantum chemical calculations have been used to provide further insight into the structure and energetics of these molecules.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Chemistry, 199