Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation of Interstellar Nitriles

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008apj...689.1448r&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 689, Issue 2, pp. 1448-1455.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astrochemistry, Comets: General, Ism: Molecules, Meteors, Meteoroids, Molecular Processes

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In light of recent measurement of nitrogen isotope ratios in CN and HCN in several comets, and the correlation between 15N excess and the presence of nitrile (-CN) functional groups in meteoritic samples, we have reassessed the potential of interstellar chemistry to directly fractionate nitriles. We focus in particular on the 15N chemistry in selective depletion cores where O-bearing molecules are depleted yet N- and C-bearing species remain in the gas, as revealed by the recent detection of CN in dense CO-depleted cores. We show that large HC15N/HC14N ratios can be generated if the reaction of CN with N has a barrier, and suggest that cometary HCN and CN may trace material originally formed in dense interstellar clouds.

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