Gas-phase syntheses for interstellar carboxylic and amino acids

Blagojevic, Voislav; Petrie, Simon; Bohme, Diethard

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Gas-phase syntheses for interstellar carboxylic and amino acids

Date

2003

Authors

Blagojevic, Voislav

Petrie, Simon

Bohme, Diethard

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We report experimental results that demonstrate gas-phase, ionic syntheses of glycine and β-alahine, as well as acetic and propanoic acid, from smaller molecules found in space; in doing so, we infer the formation of these acids in the interstellar envir