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Vanessa P. McCaffrey
Researcher at Albion College
Publications - 3
Citations - 12
Vanessa P. McCaffrey is an academic researcher from Albion College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glycolaldehyde & Comet. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 3 citations.
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Cometary Glycolaldehyde as a Source of pre-RNA Molecules.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that up to 1023 kg of cometary GLA could have survived impact delivery, with substantial amounts of threose, erythrose, glycolic acid, and ethylene glycol also produced or delivered.
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Substituent effects in dioxovanadium(V) schiff-base complexes: Tuning the outcomes of oxidation reactions
Vanessa P. McCaffrey,Olivia Q. Conover,Michael A. Bernard,Jonathan T. Yarranton,Nicholas R. Lessnau,Jordan P. Hempfling +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, Dioxovanadium(V) salicylaldehyde semicarbazone complexes with substituents on the ligand that span the range of electron donating (methoxy) to electron withdrawing (nitro) have been synthesized and characterized.
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Cometary glycolaldehyde as a source of pre-RNA molecules
TL;DR: Impact experiments conducted at the Experimental Impact Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center have shown that samples of GLA and GLA mixed with montmorillonite clays can survive impact delivery in the pressure range of 4.5 to 25 GPa, indicating that comets may have been important delivery vehicles for starting molecules necessary for life as the authors know it.