[HTML][HTML] Formation and growth mechanisms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A mini-review

E Reizer, B Viskolcz, B Fiser - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are mostly formed during the incomplete
combustion of organic materials, but their importance and presence in materials science …

Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules

AGGM Tielens - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules carry the infrared (IR) emission
features that dominate the spectra of most galactic and extragalactic sources. This review …

Detection of the aromatic molecule benzonitrile (c-C6H5CN) in the interstellar medium

BA McGuire, AM Burkhardt, S Kalenskii… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles are thought
to be widespread throughout the universe, because these classes of molecules are probably …

Aromatics and cyclic molecules in molecular clouds: A new dimension of interstellar organic chemistry

MC McCarthy, BA McGuire - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
Astrochemistry lies at the nexus of astronomy, chemistry, and molecular physics. On the
basis of precise laboratory data, a rich collection of more than 200 familiar and exotic …

Accurate Geometries of Large Molecules at DFT Cost by Semiexperimental and Coupled Cluster Templating Fragments

S Di Grande, F Lazzari, V Barone - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accurate geometries of small semirigid molecules in the gas phase are available thanks to
high-resolution spectroscopy and accurate quantum chemical approaches. These results …

Hunting for Complex Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium: the Role of Accurate Low-Cost Theoretical Geometries and Rotational Constants

V Barone, F Lazzari - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
A new approach to computation at affordable cost of accurate geometrical structures and
rotational constants for medium-sized molecules in the gas phase is further improved and …

Discovery of two cyano derivatives of acenaphthylene (C12H8) in TMC-1 with the QUIJOTE line survey

J Cernicharo, C Cabezas, R Fuentetaja… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We report the discovery in TMC-1 of two cyano derivatives of the PAH acenaphthylene (C 12
H 8). We have found two series of lines with the QUIJOTE line survey that we assign to 1-C …

Exploiting the “Lego brick” approach to predict accurate molecular structures of PAHs and PANHs

H Ye, S Alessandrini, M Melosso… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles
(PANHs) are important and ubiquitous species in space. However, their accurate structural …

Accurate geometries of large molecules by integration of the Pisa composite scheme and the templating synthon approach

F Lazzari, M Mendolicchio… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
An effective yet reliable computational workflow is proposed, which permits the computation
of accurate geometrical structures for large flexible molecules at an affordable cost thanks to …

Gas-phase synthetic pathways to benzene and benzonitrile: a combined microwave and thermochemical investigation

KLK Lee, BA McGuire, MC McCarthy - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent astronomical detection of benzonitrile (C6H5CN) in the cold, starless cloud TMC-
1 demonstrates that aromatic chemistry is efficient even in the primordial stages of star and …