Discovery of the pure polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon indene (c-C9H8) with GOTHAM observations of TMC-1

AM Burkhardt, KLK Lee, PB Changala… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have long been invoked in the study of interstellar
and protostellar sources, but the unambiguous identification of any individual PAH has …

Detection of interstellar 1-cyanopyrene: A four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

G Wenzel, IR Cooke, PB Changala, EA Bergin… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic molecules containing adjacent
aromatic rings. Infrared emission bands show that PAHs are abundant in space, but only a …

Copper-catalyzed transfer hydrodeuteration of aryl alkenes with quantitative isotopomer purity analysis by molecular rotational resonance spectroscopy

ZP Vang, A Reyes, RE Sonstrom… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A copper-catalyzed alkene transfer hydrodeuteration reaction that selectively incorporates
one hydrogen and one deuterium atom across an aryl alkene is described. The transfer …

Detections of interstellar aromatic nitriles 2-cyanopyrene and 4-cyanopyrene in TMC-1

G Wenzel, TH Speak, PB Changala, RHJ Willis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most widespread compounds in
the universe, accounting for up to~ 25% of all interstellar carbon. Since most unsubstituted …

Accuracy of quantum chemistry structures of chiral tag complexes and the assignment of absolute configuration

K Mayer, C West, FE Marshall, G Sedo… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The absolute configuration of a molecule can be established by analysis of molecular
rotational spectra of the analyte complexed with a small chiral molecule of known …

Exhaustive product analysis of three benzene discharges by microwave spectroscopy

MC McCarthy, KLK Lee, PB Carroll… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Using chirped and cavity microwave spectroscopies, automated double resonance, new
high-speed fitting and deep learning algorithms, and large databases of computed …

Discovery of interstellar trans-cyanovinylacetylene (HC≡ CCH= CHC≡ N) and vinylcyanoacetylene (H2C= CHC3N) in GOTHAM observations of TMC-1

KLK Lee, RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of two unsaturated organic species, trans-(E)-cyanovinylacetylene
and vinylcyanoacetylene, using the second data release of the GOTHAM deep survey …

Unbiased Comparison between Theoretical and Experimental Molecular Structures and Properties: Toward an Accurate Reduced-Cost Evaluation of Vibrational …

M Mendolicchio, V Barone - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The tremendous development of hardware and software is constantly increasing the role of
quantum chemical (QC) computations in the assignment and interpretation of experimental …

Searches for bridged bicyclic molecules in space—norbornadiene and its cyano derivatives

MA Martin-Drumel, JT Spaniol, H Hölzel… - Faraday …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The norbornadiene (NBD) molecule, C7H8, owes its fame to its remarkable photoswitching
properties that are promising for molecular solar-thermal energy storage systems. Besides …

Molecule identification with rotational spectroscopy and probabilistic deep learning

M McCarthy, KLK Lee - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
A proof-of-concept framework for identifying molecules of unknown elemental composition
and structure using experimental rotational data and probabilistic deep learning is …