Philip R. Jewell

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the typical environment of dense interstellar clouds is favorable to glycolaldehyde synthesis by means of the polymerization of formaldehyde (H CO) molecules either on grain surfaces or in the 2 gas phase.

TL;DR: In this article, Kuan et al. presented essential criteria which can be used in a straightforward analysis technique to confirm the identity of an interstellar asymmetric rotor such as glycine.

TL;DR: Propylene oxide (CH_3CHCH_2O) was detected in the gas phase in a cold, extended molecular shell around the embedded, massive protostellar clusters in the Sagittarius B2 star-forming region.

TL;DR: Propylene oxide is detected in the gas phase in a cold, extended molecular shell around the embedded, massive protostellar clusters in the Sagittarius B2 star-forming region, representative of the earliest stage of solar system evolution in which a chiral molecule has been found.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that successive hydrogen addition is probably an important chemistry route in the formation of a number of complex interstellar molecules in Sagittarius B2(N) by means of rotational transitions observed with the 100 m Green Bank Telescope.