Urea, glycolic acid, and glycerol in an organic residue produced by ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar/pre-cometary ice analogs

Astrobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-256

  Nuevo, Michel ^a,b   Bredehöft, Jan Hendrik ^c   Meierhenrich, Uwe J ^d   D'hendecourt, Louis ^a   Thiemann, Wolfram H P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Ice; Interstellar molecules; Laboratory simulation experiments; Prebiotic chemistry; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ACID; AMIDE; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLIC ACID; GLYCOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ICE; UREA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACETAMIDES; ACIDS; AMIDES; BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLATES; ICE; METEOROIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UREA;

EID: 77951262216     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2009.0358     Document Type: Article

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