Complex organic interstellar molecules

E Herbst, EF Van Dishoeck - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Of the over 150 different molecular species detected in the interstellar and circumstellar
media, approximately 50 contain 6 or more atoms. These molecules, labeled complex by …

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 …

Formation of complex organic molecules in hot molecular cores through nondiffusive grain-surface and ice-mantle chemistry

RT Garrod, M **, KA Matis, D Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new, more comprehensive model of gas–grain chemistry in hot molecular cores is
presented, in which nondiffusive reaction processes on dust-grain surfaces and in ice …

Complex chemistry in star-forming regions: An expanded gas-grain warm-up chemical model

RT Garrod, SLW Weaver, E Herbst - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Gas-phase processes were long thought to be the key formation mechanisms for complex
organic molecules in star-forming regions. However, recent experimental and theoretical …

The molecular universe

A Tielens - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Molecular absorption and emission bands dominate the visible, infrared, and submillimeter
spectra of most objects with associated gas. These observations reveal a surprisingly rich …

Formation of methyl formate and other organic species in the warm-up phase of hot molecular cores

RT Garrod, E Herbst - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2006 - aanda.org
Aims. The production of saturated organic molecules in hot cores and corinos is not well
understood. The standard approach is to assume that, as temperatures heat up during star …

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 …

The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2006

J Woodall, M Agúndez, AJ Markwick-Kemper… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a new version of the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry, the fourth such
version to be released to the public. The current version contains some 4573 binary gas …

Simulating the density of organic species in the atmosphere of Titan with a coupled ion-neutral photochemical model

V Vuitton, RV Yelle, SJ Klippenstein, SM Hörst… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a one-dimensional coupled ion-neutral photochemical kinetics and diffusion
model to study the atmospheric composition of Titan in light of new theoretical kinetics …

Surface processes on interstellar amorphous solid water: Adsorption, diffusion, tunneling reactions, and nuclear-spin conversion

T Hama, N Watanabe - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Since we intend to review experimental and theoretical studies of physicochemical
processes occurring on cosmic dust grains in very cold regions in space, we start with a brief …