Conspectus This Account presents recent advances in our understanding on the formation
pathways of complex organic molecules (COMs) within interstellar analog ices on ice-coated …

The capacity of transition metals to bind and transform carbon monoxide (CO) is critical to its
use in many chemical processes as a sustainable, inexpensive C1 building block. By …

Quantum chemistry can uniquely answer astrochemical questions that no other technique
can provide. Computations can be parallelized, automated, and left to run continuously …

Context. Many molecules observed in the interstellar medium are thought to result from the
thermal desorption of ices. Parameters such as the desorption energy and pre-exponential …

Unravelling the generation of complex organic molecules (COMs) on interstellar
nanoparticles (grains) is essential in establishing predictive astrochemical reaction networks …

Owing to the unique conditions in cold molecular clouds, enols—the thermodynamically less
stable tautomers of aldehydes and ketones—do not undergo tautomerization to their more …

Because of their nucleophilic character and high reactivity, enols─ reaction intermediates
carrying a hydroxyl group connected to a carbon–carbon double bond─ play a key role in …

Ices of acetylene (C2H2) and ammonia (NH3) were irradiated with energetic electrons to
simulate interstellar ices processed by galactic cosmic rays in order to investigate the …

We unravel, for the very first time, the formation pathways of hydroxyacetone
(CH3COCH2OH), methyl acetate (CH3COOCH3), and 3-hydroxypropanal …

The reaction of water molecules with alane (AlH3) or magnesium hydride (MgH2) ultimately
produces metal oxide clusters with surrounding hydrogen atoms. This quantum chemical …