Molecules in the Early Universe
 
     Alex Dalgarno
     dalgarno@apjled.harvard.edu
ITAMP at Center for Astrophysics and Harvard University
60 Garden Str., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

A discussion will be given of the mechanisms involved in the formation and destruction of molecules and their possible detection in the early universe and in the first cosmological objects. There have been several calculations of the molecular abundance as functions of the red shift with some differences. New results will be presented and the differences resolved.