INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING PREBIOTIC MOLECULES BY GAS PHASE IONMOLECULE REACTIONS. APPLICATION TO GLYCINE

摘要

In last years, progresses in astrophysics have revealed the presence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and in comets of many organic molecules, like glycine [1], urea [2] and formamide [3]. Due to the extreme conditions in space, it is not clear how such prebiotic molecules can be synthetized. Gas-phase ion chemistry, combining simulations and experiments, can propose some synthetic routes.