Surface processes on interstellar amorphous solid water: Adsorption, diffusion, tunneling reactions, and nuclear-spin conversion

T Hama, N Watanabe - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Since we intend to review experimental and theoretical studies of physicochemical
processes occurring on cosmic dust grains in very cold regions in space, we start with a brief …

Atom tunneling in chemistry

J Meisner, J Kästner - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum mechanical tunneling of atoms is increasingly found to play an important role in
many chemical transformations. Experimentally, atom tunneling can be indirectly detected …

New gas–grain chemical models of quiescent dense interstellar clouds: the effects of H2 tunnelling reactions and cosmic ray induced desorption

TI Hasegawa, E Herbst - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 1993 - academic.oup.com
New models of the chemistry of dense interstellar clouds are presented in which both gas-
phase and grain-surface chemistry occur. The dust-grain and gas temperatures are fixed at …

Tunnelling measured in a very slow ion–molecule reaction

R Wild, M Nötzold, M Simpson, TD Tran, R Wester - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum tunnelling reactions play an important role in chemistry when classical pathways
are energetically forbidden, be it in gas-phase reactions, surface diffusion or liquid-phase …

Chemistry in the interstellar medium

E Herbst - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 1995 - annualreviews.org
Over the past 25 years, astronomers have discovered a large number of gas-phase
molecules in space, ranging in size up to more than 10 atoms. The molecules, which are …

Isotopic fractionation of carbon, deuterium, and nitrogen: a full chemical study

E Roueff, JC Loison, KM Hickson - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The increased sensitivity and high spectral resolution of millimeter telescopes allow
the detection of an increasing number of isotopically substituted molecules in the interstellar …

Unusual chemical processes in interstellar chemistry: past and present

E Herbst - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The chemistry that occurs in interstellar clouds consists of both gas-phase processes and
reactions on the surfaces of dust grains, the latter particularly on and in water-dominated ice …

Experimental investigations of ion–molecule reactions relevant to interstellar chemistry

D Gerlich - Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 1993 - pubs.rsc.org
Based on the method to confine charged particles in inhomogeneous radiofrequency fields,
two experimental set-ups have been developed for the study of ion–molecule reactions …

The astrochemistry of H3+

E Herbst - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2000 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The reactions of the molecular ion H3+ are pivotal to the chemistry of dense interstellar
clouds. Produced by the cosmic-ray ionization of molecular hydrogen, H3+ reacts with a …

Uniform supersonic chemical reactors: 30 years of astrochemical history and future challenges

A Potapov, A Canosa, E Jiménez… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The interstellar medium is of great interest to us as the place where stars and planets are
born and from where, probably, the molecular precursors of life came to Earth. Astronomical …