Biochemistry on Earth makes use of the key elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
phosphorus, and sulfur (or CHONPS). Chemically accessible molecules containing these …

In recent years, phosphorus monoxide (PO), an important molecule for prebiotic chemistry,
has been detected in star-forming regions and in the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko …

The reaction dynamics of P (4 S)+ O 2 (X 3 Σ g-)→ O (3 P)+ PO (X 2 Π) are thought to be
important in atmospheric and interstellar chemistry. Based on the state-of-the-art ab initio …

Despite the importance of phosphorus-bearing molecules for life and their abundance
outside Earth, the chemistry of those compounds still is poorly described. The present study …

The reactions of the low-lying metastable states of atomic phosphorus, P (2D) and P (2P),
with H2O and H2 were studied by the pulsed laser photolysis at 248 nm of PCl3, combined …

Phosphorus monoxide (PO) is a key brick of prebiotic chemistry since it is a potential
precursor of phosphates, which are present in all living systems. Prompted by the lack of …

The ablation of phosphorus from interplanetary dust particles entering the Earth's
atmosphere is a potentially significant source of this key bioelement. In this study, the …

This study explores the delivery of phosphorus to the upper atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and
Venus via the ablation of cosmic dust particles. Micron-size meteoritic particles were flash …

The kinetics of the reactions of PO with O2 and PO2 with O3 were studied at temperatures
ranging from∼ 190 to 340 K, using a pulsed laser photolysis-laser induced fluorescence …

Semiclassical instanton theory is a form of quantum transition-state theory which can be
applied to the computation of thermal reaction rates in complex molecular systems including …