Microwave Spectra of Molecules of Astrophysical Interest VI. Carbonyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Cyanide

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Maki
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Cyanide ◽  
Carbonyl Sulfide ◽  
Astrophysical Interest ◽  
Microwave Spectra

Microwave Spectra of Molecules of Astrophysical Interest. XXIII. Acetaldehyde

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1113-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kleiner ◽  
F. J. Lovas ◽  
M. Godefroid
Keyword(s):  
Astrophysical Interest ◽  
Microwave Spectra

Microwave spectra and structure of hydrogen cyanide-boron trifluoride: an almost weakly bound complex

1993 ◽  
Vol 97 (41) ◽  
pp. 10630-10637 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. W. Reeve ◽  
W. A. Burns ◽  
F. J. Lovas ◽  
R. D. Suenram ◽  
K. R. Leopold
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Cyanide ◽  
Boron Trifluoride ◽  
Weakly Bound ◽  
Microwave Spectra

scholarly journals The Transformation by Catalysis of Prebiotic Chemical Systems to Useful Biochemicals: A Perspective Based on IR Spectroscopy of the Primary Chemicals II. Catalysis and the Building of RNA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4712
Author(s):  
Ragnar Larsson ◽  
Abdul Malek ◽  
Ingemar Odenbrand
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Ir Spectroscopy ◽  
Hydrogen Cyanide ◽  
Ribonucleic Acid ◽  
Carbonyl Sulfide ◽  
Catalyst System ◽  
Chemical Systems ◽  
Prebiotic Chemical

Having found that carbonyl sulfide (COS), works well as a catalyst in the transformation of amino acids to polypeptides, we have now tested COS as a catalyst also for the formation of substances that might be thought of as partners in the building of RNA. The model used was selective energy transfer (SET). This model implies that a certain number of vibrational quanta are donated from the catalyst system and a corresponding number of quanta of the reactant accept the energy thus transferred. In this way, we found that carbonyl sulfide, COS, was a perfect catalyst for combining, first, five molecules of formaldehyde to form one molecule of ribose, and next, five molecules of hydrogen cyanide, HCN, to form one molecule of adenine, one of the nucleobases of RNA. However, beyond this, we found that COS was a perfect catalyst for precisely all reactions, needed to build the RNA, ribonucleic acid.

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