Astrochemistry during the formation of stars

JK Jørgensen, A Belloche… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

Aromatics and cyclic molecules in molecular clouds: A new dimension of interstellar organic chemistry

MC McCarthy, BA McGuire - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
Astrochemistry lies at the nexus of astronomy, chemistry, and molecular physics. On the
basis of precise laboratory data, a rich collection of more than 200 familiar and exotic …

2018 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 204 individual molecular species, comprised of 16 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 241 individual molecular species, composed of 19 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

Discovery of the interstellar chiral molecule propylene oxide (CH3CHCH2O)

BA McGuire, PB Carroll, RA Loomis, IA Finneran… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Life on Earth relies on chiral molecules—that is, species not superimposable on their mirror
images. This manifests itself in the selection of a single molecular handedness, or …

Complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium: IRAM 30 m line survey of Sagittarius B2 (N) and (M)

A Belloche, HSP Müller, KM Menten, P Schilke… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. The discovery of amino acids in meteorites fallen to Earth and the detection of
glycine, the simplest of them, in samples returned from a comet to Earth strongly suggest that …

The census of interstellar complex organic molecules in the Class I hot corino of SVS13-A

E Bianchi, C Codella, C Ceccarelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the first census of the interstellar Complex Organic Molecules (iCOMs) in the low-
mass Class I protostar SVS13-A, obtained by analysing data from the IRAM-30 m Large …

A rigorous detection of interstellar CH3NCO: An important missing species in astrochemical networks

J Cernicharo, Z Kisiel, B Tercero, L Kolesniková… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The recent analysis of the composition of the frozen surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-
Gerasimenko has revealed a significant number of complex organic molecules. Methyl …

ALMA detection of interstellar methoxymethanol (CH3OCH2OH)

BA McGuire, CN Shingledecker, ER Willis… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the detection of interstellar methoxymethanol (CH 3 OCH 2 OH) in Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Bands 6 and 7 toward the MM1 core in the high-mass …

The detection of interstellar ethanimine (CH3CHNH) from observations taken during the GBT PRIMOS survey

RA Loomis, DP Zaleski, AL Steber… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We have performed reaction product screening measurements using broadband rotational
spectroscopy to identify rotational transition matches between laboratory spectra and the …