Reactions of nitriles in ices relevant to Titan, comets, and the interstellar medium: formation of cyanate ion, ketenimines, and isonitriles

Details Reactions of nitriles in ices relevant to Titan, comets, and the interstellar medium: formation of cyanate ion, ketenimines, and isonitriles Reactions of nitriles in ices relevant to Titan, comets, and the interstellar medium: formation of cyanate ion, ketenimines, and isonitriles

Dec 2004

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Icarus, Volume 172, Issue 2, p. 466-478.

Physics

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Motivated by detections of nitriles in Titan's atmosphere, cometary comae, and the interstellar medium, we report laboratory investigations of the low-temperature chemistry of acetonitrile, propionitrile, acrylonitrile, cyanoacetylene, and cyanogen (CH3CN, CH3CH2CN, CH2CHCN, HCCCN, and NCCN, respectively). A few experiments were also done on isobutyronitrile and trimethylacetonitrile ((CH3)2CHCN and (CH3)3CCN, respectively). Trends were sought, and found, in the photo- and radiation chemical products of these molecules at 12 25 K. In the absence of water, all of these molecules isomerized to isonitriles, and CH3CN, CH3CH2CN, and (CH3)2CHCN also formed ketenimines. In the presence of H2O, no isonitriles were detected but rather the cyanate ion (OCN-) was seen in all cases. Although isonitriles, ketenimines, and OCN- were the main focus of our work, we also describe cases of hydrogen loss, to make smaller nitriles, and hydrogen addition (reduction), to make larger nitriles. HCN formation also was seen in most experiments. The results are presented in terms of nitrile ice chemistry on Titan, in cometary ice, and in the interstellar medium. Possible connections to prebiotic chemistry are briefly discussed.

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