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Prebiotic Matter in Interstellar Molecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Ronald D. Brown
Ronald D. Brown*
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia

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With the discovery of the first polyatomic molecules, NH3, H2O and H2CO in 1968/9 there was immediate speculation as to how far biological chemical evolution - from atoms to small carbon compounds of biological significance - could have occurred in the Galaxy. There was also potential conflict with the canonical scientific view of the origin of life, traceable to the production of simple bio-molecules from the influence of energetic atmospheric events on the simple gaseous mixture (CH4, H2, H2O and NH3) presumed to compose the atmosphere of the very young Earth.

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Section III. Planetary, Interplanetary and Interstellar Organic Matter
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 112: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments , 1985 , pp. 123 - 137
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Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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