October 21, 2010 Journal article Closed Access

Balucani, Nadia

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{
  "DOI": "10.1017/s1743921310010938", 
  "abstract": "AbstractA variety of molecular species up to complex polyatomic molecules/radicals have been identified in many extraterrestrial gaseous environments, including interstellar clouds, cometary comae and planetary atmospheres. Amongst the identified molecules/radicals, a large percentage are organic in nature and encompass also prebiotic molecules. Different types of microscopic processes are believed to be involved in their formation, including surface processes, ion- and radical- molecule reactions. A thorough characterization of such a complex chemistry relies on a multi-disciplinary approach, where the observations are complemented by accurate chemical modeling. Unfortunately, a literature survey reveals that only a small percentage of the elementary reactions considered in the available models have been characterized in laboratory experiments. In this contribution, a brief overview will be given of recent experimental techniques that have allowed us to reach a better description of neutral-neutral gas-phase reactions, which might be responsible for the formation of simple prebiotic molecules.", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Balucani, Nadia"
    }
  ], 
  "id": "161516", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2010, 
        10, 
        21
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "language": "eng", 
  "title": "Gas-phase prebiotic chemistry in extraterrestrial environments", 
  "type": "article-journal"
}