Gas Phase Synthesis of (Iso)Quinoline and Its Role in the Formation of Nucleobases in the Interstellar Medium

Parker, Dorian S.  N.; Kaiser, Ralf. I.; Kostko, Oleg; Troy, Tyler P.; Ahmed, Musahid; Mebel, Alexander M.; Tielens, Alexander G.  G.  M.

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/53

Gas Phase Synthesis of (Iso)Quinoline and Its Role in the Formation of Nucleobases in the Interstellar Medium

Journal Article · Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/53· OSTI ID:1602877

Parker, Dorian S. N. ^[1]; Kaiser, Ralf. I. ^[2]; Kostko, Oleg ^[3]; Troy, Tyler P. ^[3]; Ahmed, Musahid ^[3]; Mebel, Alexander M. ^[4]; Tielens, Alexander G. G. M. ^[5]

Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); University of Hawaii at Manoa
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States)
Univ. of Leiden, Leiden (The Netherlands)

Nitrogen-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) have been proposed to play a key role in the astrochemical evolution of the interstellar medium, yet the formation mechanisms of even their simplest prototypes—quinoline and isoquinoline—remain elusive. Here, we reveal a novel concept that under high temperature conditions representing circumstellar envelopes of carbon stars, (iso)quinoline can be synthesized via the reaction of pyridyl radicals with two acetylene molecules. The facile gas phase formation of (iso)quinoline in circumstellar envelopes defines a hitherto elusive reaction class synthesizing aromatic structures with embedded nitrogen atoms that are essential building blocks in contemporary biological-structural motifs. Once ejected from circumstellar shells and incorporated into icy interstellar grains in cold molecular clouds, these NPAHs can be functionalized by photo processing forming nucleobase-type structures as sampled in the Murchison meteorite.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-03ER15411

OSTI ID:: 1602877

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22522505

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 803; ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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