First glycine isomer detected in the interstellar medium: glycolamide (NH2C (O) CH2OH)

VM Rivilla, M Sanz-Novo, I Jiménez-Serra… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first detection in the interstellar medium (ISM) of a C 2 H 5 O 2 N isomer: syn-
glycolamide (NH 2 C (O) CH 2 OH). The exquisite sensitivity at sub-mK levels of an …

[HTML][HTML] Full-dimensional, ab initio potential energy surface for glycine with characterization of stationary points and zero-point energy calculations by means of …

R Conte, PL Houston, C Qu, J Li… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A full-dimensional, permutationally invariant potential energy surface (PES) for the glycine
amino acid is reported. A precise fit to energies and gradients calculated at the density …

Structural Investigation of Diprotonated Glycine, Diprotonated Glycine Methyl Ester, and Monoprotonated Glycinoyl Fluoride

D Hollenwäger, Y Morgenstern… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Glycine and its methyl ester hydrochloride were investigated in superacidic media HF/M F5
(M= As, Sb). The diprotonated species were obtained as [M F6]− salts (M= As, Sb). The …

Tunneling Lifetime of the ttc/VIp Conformer of Glycine in Low-Temperature Matrices

G Bazso, G Magyarfalvi, G Tarczay - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Conformer ttc/VIp of glycine and glycine-N, N, Od 3 has been prepared in low-temperature
Ar, Kr, Xe, and N2 matrices by near-infrared (NIR) laser irradiation of the first OH stretching …

Accurate and reliable thermochemistry by data analysis of complex thermochemical networks using Active Thermochemical Tables: the case of glycine …

B Ruscic, DH Bross - Faraday Discussions, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT) were successfully used to resolve the existing
inconsistencies related to the thermochemistry of glycine, based on statistically analyzing …

Adsorption of glycine on cometary dust grains: II—Effect of amorphous water ice

E Escamilla-Roa, F Moreno - Planetary and Space Science, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent years glycine, the simplest amino acid, has become a topic of great importance in
astrobiology owing to its unambiguous detection in comet 81P/Wild 2 dust by Stardust …

Chaotic exchange of solid material between planetary systems: Implications for lithopanspermia

E Belbruno, A Moro-Martín, R Malhotra, D Savransky - Astrobiology, 2012 - liebertpub.com
We examined a low-energy mechanism for the transfer of meteoroids between two planetary
systems embedded in a star cluster using quasi-parabolic orbits of minimal energy. Using …

Ab initio study of glycine formation in the condensed phase: carbon monoxide, formaldimine, and water are enough

F Carrascoza, P Lukasiak, W Nowak… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Glycine is considered to be crucial in the formation of proteins and prebiotic substances.
Nevertheless, the mechanism of spontaneous glycine formation under prebiotic Earth …

Near-infrared laser induced conformational change and UV laser photolysis of glycine in low-temperature matrices: Observation of a short-lived conformer

G Bazsó, G Magyarfalvi, G Tarczay - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2012 - Elsevier
The near-infrared spectrum (NIR) of glycine was measured in Ar and Kr matrices. Matrix-
isolated glycine was irradiated with NIR laser light at the first OH or NH stretching overtone …

Millimetre-wave laboratory study of glycinamide and a search for it with ALMA towards Sagittarius B2 (N)

Z Kisiel, L Kolesniková, A Belloche… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Glycinamide (NH 2 CH 2 C (O) NH 2) is considered to be one of the possible
precursors of the simplest amino acid, glycine. Its only rotational spectrum reported so far …