Prebiotic molecules and interstellar grain clumps

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Mar 1977

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Nature, Volume 266, Issue 5599, pp. 241-242 (1977).

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INTERSTELLAR molecules detected by radioastronomical techniques in clouds such as OMC 1 and 2 in the Orion Nebula and Sgr B2 in the galactic centre span a wide range of types and complexity. Among the heaviest of the molecules recently discovered is cyanodiacetylene1 (H-C≡C-C≡C-C≡N). There have been earlier detections of precursors to the simplest known amino acid glycine (formic acid and methanimine), and probable detections of polyoxymethylene polymers and co-polymers2-5 in interstellar clouds. We discuss here a possible identification of organic molecules of even greater complexity, and its implications for the start of biological activity.

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