Energy dependencies of fast reactions of positive ions X+ with HCl from near thermal to ≂2 eV center-of-mass collision energy (X+=H+,H2+,H3+,N+,N2+,Ar+,C+,CH+, CH2+,CH3+,CH4+,CH5+)

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Abstract
The rate coefficients for the reactions of the ions H+, H2+, H3+, N+, N2+, Ar+, C+, CH+, CH2+, CH3+, CH4+, and CH5+ with HCl have been measured as a function of reactant ion/reactant neutral average center‐of‐mass kinetic energy (KEc.m.). The measurements were performed using a selected ion flow drift tube operated at 300 K with helium buffer gas. Most of these reactions have rate coefficients close to their collisional values at ambient temperature and all of them exhibit a pronounced KEc.m. dependence. A simple model is proposed, in which the measured dependence of the rate coefficients on KEc.m. is expressed in terms of the kinetic‐energy dependence of the rate unimolecular decomposition of the intermediate complex formed in the ion‐neutral collision.