Looking for Clues of Extant or Extinct Life on Mars: GC-MS Analysis of Amino AcidEnantiomers using N,N-Dimethylformamide Dimethylacetal (DMF-DMA)

摘要

In the frame of the future MOMA experiment of the European Exomars 2013 space missionaimed at finding traces of life, our work deals with the optimization of the derivatizationparameters of chiral organic molecules such as amino acids using N,N-DimethylformamideDimethylacetal (DMF-DMA) as derivatizing agent.