Neutral-Neutral Gas-Phase Reactions In Extraterrestrial Environments: Laboratory Investigations By Crossed Molecular Beams

Author(s):  
Nadia Balucani ◽  
Piergiorgio Casavecchia
2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. 3810-3819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surajit Maity ◽  
Dorian S. N. Parker ◽  
Ralf I. Kaiser ◽  
Brad Ganoe ◽  
Stefan Fau ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 682-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Balucani

AbstractA variety of molecular species up to complex polyatomic molecules/radicals have been identified in many extraterrestrial gaseous environments, including interstellar clouds, cometary comae and planetary atmospheres. Amongst the identified molecules/radicals, a large percentage are organic in nature and encompass also prebiotic molecules. Different types of microscopic processes are believed to be involved in their formation, including surface processes, ion- and radical- molecule reactions. A thorough characterization of such a complex chemistry relies on a multi-disciplinary approach, where the observations are complemented by accurate chemical modeling. Unfortunately, a literature survey reveals that only a small percentage of the elementary reactions considered in the available models have been characterized in laboratory experiments. In this contribution, a brief overview will be given of recent experimental techniques that have allowed us to reach a better description of neutral-neutral gas-phase reactions, which might be responsible for the formation of simple prebiotic molecules.


Author(s):  
Chao He ◽  
Shane Joseph Goettl ◽  
Zhenghai Yang ◽  
Srinivas Doddipatla ◽  
Ralf I. Kaiser ◽  
...  

The reaction of the D1-silylidyne radical (SiD; X2Π) with phosphine (PH3; X1A1) was conducted in a crossed molecular beams machine under single collision conditions. Merging of the experimental results with...


2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (4) ◽  
pp. 4298-4310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Puzzarini ◽  
Zoi Salta ◽  
Nicola Tasinato ◽  
Jacopo Lupi ◽  
Carlo Cavallotti ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the majority of current models assume that interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs) are formed on dust–grain surfaces, there is some evidence that neutral gas-phase reactions play an important role. In this paper, we investigate the reaction occurring in the gas phase between methylamine (CH3NH2) and the cyano (CN) radical, for which only fragmentary and/or inaccurate results have been reported to date. This case study allows us to point out the pivotal importance of employing quantum-chemical calculations at the state of the art. Since the two major products of the CH3NH2 + CN reaction, namely the CH3NH and CH2NH2 radicals, have not been spectroscopically characterized yet, some effort has been made for filling this gap.


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (33) ◽  
pp. 17580-17587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Yang ◽  
Beni B. Dangi ◽  
Dorian S. N. Parker ◽  
Ralf I. Kaiser ◽  
Yi An ◽  
...  

Bimolecular gas phase formation of vinylsulfidoboron (C2H311B32S) under single collision conditions.


Author(s):  
Victor N. Kondratiev ◽  
Evgeniĭ E. Nikitin

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