scholarly journals Formation of complex organic molecules in cold objects: the role of gas-phase reactions

2015 ◽  
Vol 449 (1) ◽  
pp. L16-L20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Balucani ◽  
Cecilia Ceccarelli ◽  
Vianney Taquet
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Complex Organic

Complex Organic Molecules Formation in Space Through Gas Phase Reactions: A Theoretical Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 836 (2) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Redondo ◽  
Carmen Barrientos ◽  
Antonio Largo
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Complex Organic

scholarly journals The role of radiolysis in the modelling of C2H4O2 isomers and dimethyl ether in cold dark clouds

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (3) ◽  
pp. 3414-3424
Author(s):  
Alec Paulive ◽  
Christopher N Shingledecker ◽  
Eric Herbst
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Dimethyl Ether ◽  
Recent Observation ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Thermal Method ◽  
Dark Clouds ◽  
Ice Surface ◽  
Dust Grain ◽  
Complex Organic

ABSTRACT Complex organic molecules (COMs) have been detected in a variety of interstellar sources. The abundances of these COMs in warming sources can be explained by syntheses linked to increasing temperatures and densities, allowing quasi-thermal chemical reactions to occur rapidly enough to produce observable amounts of COMs, both in the gas phase, and upon dust grain ice mantles. The COMs produced on grains then become gaseous as the temperature increases sufficiently to allow their thermal desorption. The recent observation of gaseous COMs in cold sources has not been fully explained by these gas-phase and dust grain production routes. Radiolysis chemistry is a possible non-thermal method of producing COMs in cold dark clouds. This new method greatly increases the modelled abundance of selected COMs upon the ice surface and within the ice mantle due to excitation and ionization events from cosmic ray bombardment. We examine the effect of radiolysis on three C2H4O2 isomers – methyl formate (HCOOCH3), glycolaldehyde (HCOCH2OH), and acetic acid (CH3COOH) – and a chemically similar molecule, dimethyl ether (CH3OCH3), in cold dark clouds. We then compare our modelled gaseous abundances with observed abundances in TMC-1, L1689B, and B1-b.

The Role of Starting Potential in the Kinetics of Chemical Reactions under Electrodeless Discharge

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1772
Author(s):  
T.S.R Ao ◽  
A. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Electric Discharge ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Electrodeless Discharge ◽  
First Order ◽  
Kinetics Of

Abstract It has been shown that in kinetically first order gas phase reactions occuring under electric discharge, such as the decomposition of N2O, the application, at various initial pressures, of the same multiple of the respective starting potential ensures that the reaction occurs at the same specific rate.

Photocatalytic degradation of trichloroethylene in dry and humid atmospheres: role of gas-phase reactions

2004 ◽  
Vol 217 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Placidus B. Amama ◽  
Kiminori Itoh ◽  
Masayuki Murabayashi
Keyword(s):  
Photocatalytic Degradation ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions

Gas-phase reactions of anions with halogenated methanes at 297 ± 2 K

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 1643-1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Tanaka ◽  
G. I. Mackay ◽  
J. D. Payzant ◽  
D. K. Bohme
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Hydrogen Atom Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Phase Measurements ◽  
Displacement Reactions ◽  
Nucleophilic Reactivity ◽  
Apparent Activation Energies

The rate constants for a number of exothermic displacement (SN2) reactions of the type X− + CH3Y → Y− + CH3X where X− = H−, O−, C−, F−, S−, Cl−, OH−, C2−, CN−, SH−, S2−, C2H−, NH2−, NO2−, CHF−, CH2Cl−, CH2Br−, CH3O−, CH3S−, and CH3NH− and Y = F, Cl, and Br, have been measured in the gas phase at 297 ± 2 K using the flowing after-glow technique. These gas-phase measurements provided an opportunity to determine the intrinsic nucleophilic reactivity of 'nude' anions and hence to assess the role of solvation in the kinetics of SN2 reactions proceeding in solution. Comparisons of the experimental rate constants with rate constants calculated using classical theories of capture indicate that several displacement reactions may possess large intrinsic energies of activation, [Formula: see text]. Correlations were found between apparent activation energies and the heats of reaction. These correlations provided a convenient classification of the various anion nucleophiles. Displacement was observed to compete with proton transfer in reactions involving nucleophiles of high intrinsic basicity and with hydrogen atom transfer and H2+ transfer in the reactions of the O− radical anion.

Epitaxial Si1−yCy alloys: The role of surface and gas phase reactions

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 1240-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Mocuta ◽  
D. W. Greve
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions

scholarly journals The formation of urea in space

2018 ◽  
Vol 610 ◽  
pp. A26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavio Siro Brigiano ◽  
Yannick Jeanvoine ◽  
Antonio Largo ◽  
Riccardo Spezia
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Interstellar Medium ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Peptide Bond ◽  
Biological Molecules ◽  
Gas Phase Reactions ◽  
Molecule Reaction ◽  
Quantum Chemistry Calculations ◽  
Highly Correlated

Context. Many organic molecules have been observed in the interstellar medium thanks to advances in radioastronomy, and very recently the presence of urea was also suggested. While those molecules were observed, it is not clear what the mechanisms responsible to their formation are. In fact, if gas-phase reactions are responsible, they should occur through barrierless mechanisms (or with very low barriers). In the past, mechanisms for the formation of different organic molecules were studied, providing only in a few cases energetic conditions favorable to a synthesis at very low temperature. A particularly intriguing class of such molecules are those containing one N–C–O peptide bond, which could be a building block for the formation of biological molecules. Urea is a particular case because two nitrogen atoms are linked to the C–O moiety. Thus, motivated also by the recent tentative observation of urea, we have considered the synthetic pathways responsible to its formation. Aims. We have studied the possibility of forming urea in the gas phase via different kinds of bi-molecular reactions: ion-molecule, neutral, and radical. In particular we have focused on the activation energy of these reactions in order to find possible reactants that could be responsible for to barrierless (or very low energy) pathways. Methods. We have used very accurate, highly correlated quantum chemistry calculations to locate and characterize the reaction pathways in terms of minima and transition states connecting reactants to products. Results. Most of the reactions considered have an activation energy that is too high; but the ion-molecule reaction between NH2OHNH2OH2+ and formamide is not too high. These reactants could be responsible not only for the formation of urea but also of isocyanic acid, which is an organic molecule also observed in the interstellar medium.

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