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The survival of aromatic molecules in protoplanetary disks
Elettra L. Piacentino, Aurelia Balkanski, Jenny Calahan +3
Aromaticity is a common chemical functionalities in bioactive molecules. In interstellar and circumstellar environments benzene and other small aromatics are considered the precurs…
Methyl Isocyanate Formation from Oxygen Insertion in Methyl Cyanide Ices
Michelle R. Brann, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan
In cold molecular clouds, UV photolysis of icy grain mantles generates radicals that lead to new molecule formation. When radical diffusion is limited by low temperatures, oxygen a…
H2S ice sublimation dynamics: experimentally constrained binding energies, entrapment efficiencies, and snowlines
Julia C. Santos, Elettra L. Piacentino, Jennifer B. Bergner +2
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is thought to be an important sulfur reservoir in interstellar ices. It serves as a key precursor to complex sulfur-bearing organics, and has been proposed t…
Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg +1
Organosulfur species are potential major carriers of sulfur in the interstellar medium, as well as interesting ingredients in prebiotic chemistry. The most fundamental question reg…