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. 2025 Jun 25;125(14):6609–6652. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c01014

3. Characteristic Temperature T VLT for Transition to the Classical Langevin Capture Rate in Collisions of Diatomic Hydrogen Isotopologues with Selected Diatomic and Polyatomic Isotopologues .

Molecular Ion Neutral Molecule TVLT [mK]
H2 H2 17.2
HD 12.0
D2 9.70
HD+ H2 12.0
HD 7.65
D2 5.86
D2 H2 9.70
HD 5.86
D2 4.30
H3 H2 12.0
HD 7.65
D2 5.86
H2D+ H2 9.70
HD 5.86
D2 4.30
HD2 H2 8.43
HD 4.90
D2 3.48
D3 H2 7.65
HD 4.30
D2 3.00
CH3 H2 5.53
HD 2.75
D2 1.73
C2H2 H2 5.00
HD 2.38
D2 1.43
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Note all temperatures considered occur in the cold regime well below 1 K. Adapted from E. I. Dashevskaya and I. Litvin, Rates of complex formation in collisions of rotationally excited homonuclear diatoms with ions at very low temperatures: Application to hydrogen isotopes and hydrogen-containing ions, Journal of Chemical Physics, 122 (2005) 184311, with the permission of AIP Publishing.