===== SiCN and SiNC in IRC+10216 =====

Cyanosilylidyne was identified in spectra recorded toward IRC+10216 by\\
M. Guélin, S. Muller, J. Cernicharo, A. J. Apponi, M. C. McCarthy, C. A. Gottlieb, and P. Thaddeus,\\
**[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000A%26A...363L...9G|Astronomical detection of the free radical SiCN]]**\\
//Astron. Astrophys.// **363**, L9–L12 (2000).

According to //ab initio// calcultions, the isocyanosilylidyne isomer has a thermodynamic stability very similar to that of SiCN, but a slightly smaller dipole moment. Therefore, its reported detection was only a matter of time:\\
M. Guélin, S. Muller, J. Cernicharo, M. C. McCarthy, and P. Thaddeus,\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200400074|Detection of the SiNC Radical in IRC+10216]]**\\
//Astron. Astrophys.// **426**, L49–L52 (2004).


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Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 11, 2004

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