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20142026
most citedExperimental evidence for Glycolaldehyde and Ethylene Glycol formation by surface hydrogenation of CO molecules under dense molecular cloud conditions

198 citations · 1.4k across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Methanimine as a sink in the HCN and HNC solid state hydrogenation network

Joan Enrique-Romero, Thanja Lamberts

We aim to provide a systematic and quantitative description of the hydrogenation network connecting HCN and HNC to methylamine on interstellar water ices, while identifying dominan…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A sensitivity analysis of interstellar ice chemistry in astrochemical models

Tobias M. Dijkhuis, Thanja Lamberts, Serena Viti +1

Astrochemical models are essential to bridge the gap between the timescales of reactions, experiments, and observations. Ice chemistry in these models experiences a large computati…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Chemical templates of the Central Molecular Zone. Shock and protostellar object signatures under Galactic Center conditions

Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Gijs Vermariën, Serena Viti +21

(Abridged) The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way exhibits extreme conditions, including high gas densities, elevated temperatures, enhanced cosmic-ray ionization rates,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Interstellar Chemistry of CN Radicals on Ices: The formation of CH3CN and CH3NC and potential connection to acetamide

Joan Enrique-Romero, Thanja Lamberts

Context. Among the most significant chemical functional groups of interstellar molecules are the class of nitriles, which are proposed as key prebiotic molecules due to their chemi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Toward Unraveling Cyanopolyyne Surface Chemistry: A Preview on Isolated Systems From HC_{3}N to Ethyl Cyanide and Propylamine

Marten T. Raaphorst, Joan Enrique-Romero, Thanja Lamberts

Cyanopolyynes, a family of nitrogen containing carbon chains, are common in the interstellar medium and possibly form the backbone of species relevant to prebiotic chemistry. Follo…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hydrogenation of HOCO and formation of interstellar CO: A not so straightforward relation

Germán Molpeceres, Joan Enrique-Romero, Atsuki Ishibashi +5

Carbon dioxide (CO) is one of the most important interstellar molecules. While it is considered that it forms on the surface of interstellar dust grains, the exact contribution…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 18 cited

Modelling methanol and hydride formation in the JWST Ice Age era

Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Andrés Megías, Joseph Salaris +19

(Abridged) JWST observations have measured the ice composition toward two highly-extinguished field stars in the Chamaeleon I cloud. The observed extinction excess on the long-wave…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

Proposed importance of HOCO chemistry: Inefficient formation of CO from CO and OH reactions on ice dust

Atsuki Ishibashi, Germán Molpeceres, Hiroshi Hidaka +3

With the advent of JWST ice observations, dedicated studies on the formation reactions of detected molecules are becoming increasingly important. One of the most interesting molecu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 23 cited

Formation of S-bearing complex organic molecules in interstellar clouds via ice reactions with C2H2, HS, and atomic H

Julia C. Santos, Joan Enrique-Romero, Thanja Lamberts +2

The chemical network governing interstellar sulfur has been the topic of unrelenting discussion for the past decades due to the conspicuous discrepancy between its expected and obs…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 29 cited

Detection of Interstellar -1-cyano-1,3-butadiene in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1

Ilsa R. Cooke, Ci Xue, P. Bryan Changala +12

We report the detection of the lowest energy conformer of -1-cyano-1,3-butadiene (-1-CHCN), a linear isomer of pyridine, using the fourth data reduction of the GOTHAM…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Investigating the impact of reactions of C and CH with molecular hydrogen on a glycine gas-grain network

Johannes Heyl, Thanja Lamberts, Serena Viti +1

The impact of including the reactions of C and CH with molecular hydrogen in a gas-grain network is assessed via a sensitivity analysis. To this end, we vary 3 parameters, namely,…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

First experimental confirmation of the CH3O + H2CO -> CH3OH + HCO reaction: expanding the CH3OH formation mechanism in interstellar ices

Julia C. Santos, Ko-Ju Chuang, Thanja Lamberts +3

The successive addition of H atoms to CO in the solid phase has been hitherto regarded as the primary route to form methanol in dark molecular clouds. However, recent Monte Carlo s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Surface astrochemistry: a computational chemistry perspective

H. M. Cuppen, A. Fredon, T. Lamberts +3

Molecules in space are synthesized via a large variety of gas-phase reactions, and reactions on dust-grain surfaces, where the surface acts as a catalyst. Especially, saturated, hy…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Methoxymethanol Formation Starting from CO-Hydrogenation

Jiao He, Mart Simons, Gleb Fedoseev +7

Methoxymethanol (CH3OCH2OH, MM) has been identified through gas-phase signatures in both high- and low-mass star-forming regions. This molecule is expected to form upon hydrogen ad…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

Hydrogenation of accreting C-atoms and CO molecules -- simulating ketene and acetaldehyde formation under dark and translucent cloud conditions

Gleb Fedoseev, Danna Qasim, Ko-Ju Chuang +4

Simple and complex organic molecules (COMs) are observed along different phases of star and planet formation and have been successfully identified in prestellar environments such a…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

Carbon Atom Reactivity with Amorphous Solid Water: HO Catalyzed Formation of HCO

Germán Molpeceres, Johannes Kästner, Gleb Fedoseev +4

We report new computational and experimental evidence of an efficient and astrochemically relevant formation route to formaldehyde (HCO). This simplest carbonylic compound is c…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

Methane formation in cold regions from carbon atoms and molecular hydrogen

Thanja Lamberts, Gleb Fedoseev, Marc van Hemert +4

Methane is typically thought to be formed in the solid state on the surface of cold interstellar icy grain mantles via the successive atomic hydrogenation of a carbon atom. In the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Revisiting the reactivity between HCO and CH on interstellar grain surfaces

J. Enrique-Romero, S. Álvarez-Barcia, F. J. Kolb +7

Formation of interstellar complex organic molecules is currently thought to be dominated by the barrierless coupling between radicals on the interstellar icy grain surfaces. Previo…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 76 cited

Formation of COMs through CO hydrogenation on interstellar grains

M. A. J. Simons, T. Lamberts, H. M. Cuppen

Glycoaldehyde, ethylene glycol, and methyl formate are complex organic molecules that have been observed in dark molecular clouds. Because there is no efficient gas-phase route to…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 99 cited

Efficient Production of S in Interstellar Ices: The effects of cosmic ray-driven radiation chemistry and non-diffusive bulk reactions

Christopher N. Shingledecker, Thanja Lamberts, Jacob C. Laas +4

In this work, we reexamine sulfur chemistry occurring on and in the ice mantles of interstellar dust grains, and report the effects of two new modifications to standard astrochemic…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 44 cited

Formation of interstellar propanal and 1-propanol ice: a pathway involving solid-state CO hydrogenation

D. Qasim, G. Fedoseev, K. -J. Chuang +6

1-propanol (CH3CH2CH2OH) is a three carbon-bearing representative of primary linear alcohols that may have its origin in the cold dark cores in interstellar space. To test this, we…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 21 cited

Extension of the HCOOH and CO2 solid-state reaction network during the CO freeze-out stage: inclusion of H2CO

D. Qasim, T. Lamberts, J. He +5

Formic acid (HCOOH) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are simple species that have been detected in the interstellar medium. The solid-state formation pathways of these species under experi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 18 cited

Alcohols on the rocks: solid-state formation in a H3CCCH + OH cocktail under dark cloud conditions

D. Qasim, G. Fedoseev, T. Lamberts +5

A number of recent experimental studies have shown that solid-state complex organic molecules (COMs) can form under conditions that are relevant to the CO freeze-out stage in dense…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 36 cited

Formation of Acetaldehyde on CO-rich Ices

Thanja Lamberts, Max N. Markmeyer, Florian J. Kolb +1

The radicals HCO and CH on carbon monoxide ice surfaces were simulated using density functional theory. Their binding energy on amorphous CO ice shows broad distributions, with…