Thymine and other prebiotic molecules produced from the ultraviolet photo-irradiation of pyrimidine in simple astrophysical ice analogs

Astrobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 948-962

  Materese, Christopher K ^a,b   Nuevo, Michel ^a,b   Bera, Partha P ^a,c   Lee, Timothy J ^a   Sandford, Scott A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cometary ices; Interstellar ices; Molecular processes; Nucleobases; Prebiotic chemistry; Pyrimidine

Indexed keywords

ICE; METHANE; METHANOL; PYRIMIDINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROCLIMATE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STANDARD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOGENESIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ICE; METHANE; METHANOL; PYRIMIDINES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THYMINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER;

EID: 84886394594     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2013.1044     Document Type: Article

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