Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

CR Walton, S Ewens, JD Coates, RE Blake… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorus (P) is critical to modern biochemical functions and can control ecosystem
growth. It was presumably important as a reagent in prebiotic chemistry. However, on the …

Exploiting photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry to explore molecular mass growth processes to complex organic molecules in interstellar and …

AM Turner, RI Kaiser - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account presents recent advances in our understanding on the formation
pathways of complex organic molecules (COMs) within interstellar analog ices on ice-coated …

Phosphine on Venus cannot be explained by conventional processes

W Bains, JJ Petkowski, S Seager, S Ranjan… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The recent candidate detection of∼ 1 ppb of phosphine in the middle atmosphere of Venus
is so unexpected that it requires an exhaustive search for explanations of its origin …

[HTML][HTML] The emergence of life

E Camprubi, JW De Leeuw, CH House, F Raulin… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
The aim of this article is to provide the reader with an overview of the different possible
scenarios for the emergence of life, to critically assess them and, according to the …

Phosphine generation pathways on rocky planets

A Omran, C Oze, B Jackson, C Mehta, LM Barge… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The possibility of life in the venusian clouds was proposed in the 1960s, and recently this
hypothesis has been revived with the potential detection of phosphine (PH3) in Venus' …

Reaction dynamics on amorphous solid water surfaces using interatomic machine-learned potentials-Microscopic energy partition revealed from the P+ H→ PH …

G Molpeceres, V Zaverkin, K Furuya, Y Aikawa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Energy redistribution after a chemical reaction is one of the few mechanisms that
can explain the diffusion and desorption of molecules which require more energy than the …

Interstellar formation of biorelevant pyruvic acid (CH3COCOOH)

NF Kleimeier, AK Eckhardt, PR Schreiner, RI Kaiser - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Pyruvic acid represents a key molecule in prebiotic chemistry to form metabolites and amino
acids. Without liquid water on the early Earth, endogenous formation of pyruvic acid is …

On the formation of complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium: untangling the chemical complexity of carbon monoxide–hydrocarbon containing ice …

MJ Abplanalp, RI Kaiser - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, over 200 molecules have been detected in the interstellar medium (ISM), with
about one third being complex organic molecules (COMs), molecules containing six or more …

Thin‐Film Composite Cyclomatrix Poly (Phenoxy) Phosphazenes Membranes for Hot Hydrogen Separation

F Radmanesh, EJR Sudhölter, A Tena… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An interfacial polymerization process is introduced for the fabrication of thermally stable
cyclomatrix poly (phenoxy) phosphazenes thin‐film composite membranes that can sieve …

An experimental and theoretical investigation into the formation of ketene (H2CCO) and ethynol (HCCOH) in interstellar analog ices

AM Turner, AS Koutsogiannis… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The formation of isomers of C 2 H 2 O—ketene (H 2 CCO), ethynol (HCCOH), and oxirene (c-
CHCHO)—was investigated in interstellar ice analogs composed of carbon monoxide and …