Photochemistry and astrochemistry: Photochemical pathways to interstellar complex organic molecules

KI Öberg - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The interstellar medium is characterized by a rich and diverse chemistry. Many of its
complex organic molecules are proposed to form through radical chemistry in icy grain …

Prebiotic astrochemistry and the formation of molecules of astrobiological interest in interstellar clouds and protostellar disks

SA Sandford, M Nuevo, PP Bera, TJ Lee - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the generally hostile nature of the environments involved, chemistry does occur in
space. Molecules are seen in environments that span a wide range of physical and chemical …

Evaluation of the Orbitrap mass spectrometer for the molecular fingerprinting analysis of natural dissolved organic matter

JA Hawkes, T Dittmar, C Patriarca, L Tranvik… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We investigated the application of the LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (LTQ-Velos Pro,
Thermo Fisher) for resolving complex mixtures of natural aquatic dissolved organic matter …

High-molecular-weight organic matter in the particles of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

N Fray, A Bardyn, H Cottin, K Altwegg, D Baklouti… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The presence of solid carbonaceous matter in cometary dust was established by the
detection of elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in particles from …

Aldehydes and sugars from evolved precometary ice analogs: Importance of ices in astrochemical and prebiotic evolution

P de Marcellus, C Meinert, I Myrgorodska… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Evolved interstellar ices observed in dense protostellar molecular clouds may arguably be
considered as part of precometary materials that will later fall on primitive telluric planets …

Enantiomeric excesses induced in amino acids by ultraviolet circularly polarized light irradiation of extraterrestrial ice analogs: A possible source of asymmetry for …

P Modica, C Meinert, P de Marcellus… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of meteoritic amino acids with enantiomeric excesses of the l-form (ee L) has
suggested that extraterrestrial organic materials may have contributed to prebiotic chemistry …

Earth as a tool for astrobiology—a European perspective

Z Martins, H Cottin, JM Kotler, N Carrasco… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Scientists use the Earth as a tool for astrobiology by analyzing planetary field analogues (ie
terrestrial samples and field sites that resemble planetary bodies in our Solar System). In …

Paris vs. Murchison: Impact of hydrothermal alteration on organic matter in CM chondrites

V Vinogradoff, C Le Guillou, S Bernard, L Binet… - … et Cosmochimica acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Unravelling the origin of organic compounds that were accreted into asteroids requires
better constraining the impact of asteroidal hydrothermal alteration on their isotopic …

Evolution of interstellar organic compounds under asteroidal hydrothermal conditions

V Vinogradoff, S Bernard, C Le Guillou, L Remusat - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbonaceous chondrites (CC) contain a diversity of organic compounds. No definitive
evidence for a genetic relationship between these complex organic molecules and the …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in carbonaceous chondrites can be used as tracers of both pre-accretion and secondary processes

M Lecasble, L Remusat, JC Viennet, B Laurent… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbonaceous chondrites contain a diverse suite of more or less soluble compounds,
including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These compounds are structured …