From Elemental Carbon to Complex Macromolecular Networks in Space

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Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004assl..305...97c&link_type=abstract

Asrobiology: Future Perspectives, by P. Ehrenfreund et al., Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE L

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Elemental carbon is formed in stars at the end of their life cycle and is ejected in the interstellar medium. Through a review of the elemental forms of carbon, it is possible to have a clearer picture of the formation and the evolution of this element in space, its ability to build complex molecular and macromolecular species, and its basis for the subsequent formation, under prebiotic conditions, of the molecules that are the precursors of life. The aim of the present chapter is to combine, in a tutorial way, the chemical knowledge of elemental carbon forms with the knowledge and hypotheses concerning elemental carbon present in the interstellar medium, from micron-sized grains to nanosized particles and gas-phase molecules.

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