Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium
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| author | Payra, Siddhartha S. Thakkar, Pratikkumar Gupta, Shiv Mathews, Ruth Ann Lenka, Yash Dutta, Saurav Behera, Nihar Ranjan Nandipati, Krishna R. Aravind, G. |
| author_facet | Payra, Siddhartha S. Thakkar, Pratikkumar Gupta, Shiv Mathews, Ruth Ann Lenka, Yash Dutta, Saurav Behera, Nihar Ranjan Nandipati, Krishna R. Aravind, G. |
| contents | Nitrogen-bearing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (N-PAHs) are key precursors to complex organic molecules in both the interstellar medium and the nitrogen-rich planetary atmospheres. Despite the recent detections of nitrogen-functionalized astromolecules, their formation pathways remain an open question. The discrepancies between their predicted and observed abundances point to unknown mechanism that govern their evolution in the astrophysical environments. Employing an ion trap technique and electronic structure calculations, we unravel multiple barrier-less reactions between gas-phase pyrimidine cations (C$_4$H$_4$N$_2^+$) and acetylene (C$_2$H$_2$) which form an hitherto unreported endocyclic- N-PAHs (C$_8$H$_7$N$_2^+$). The present measurements on reactions involving a double-nitrogen subsituted aromatic heterocycle have implications to the astrochemistry of both the Titan's atmosphere and interstellar medium. |
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| spellingShingle | Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium Payra, Siddhartha S. Thakkar, Pratikkumar Gupta, Shiv Mathews, Ruth Ann Lenka, Yash Dutta, Saurav Behera, Nihar Ranjan Nandipati, Krishna R. Aravind, G. Astrophysics of Galaxies Chemical Physics Nitrogen-bearing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (N-PAHs) are key precursors to complex organic molecules in both the interstellar medium and the nitrogen-rich planetary atmospheres. Despite the recent detections of nitrogen-functionalized astromolecules, their formation pathways remain an open question. The discrepancies between their predicted and observed abundances point to unknown mechanism that govern their evolution in the astrophysical environments. Employing an ion trap technique and electronic structure calculations, we unravel multiple barrier-less reactions between gas-phase pyrimidine cations (C$_4$H$_4$N$_2^+$) and acetylene (C$_2$H$_2$) which form an hitherto unreported endocyclic- N-PAHs (C$_8$H$_7$N$_2^+$). The present measurements on reactions involving a double-nitrogen subsituted aromatic heterocycle have implications to the astrochemistry of both the Titan's atmosphere and interstellar medium. |
| title | Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14424 |