Gas-phase formation of glycolonitrile in the interstellar medium

Abstract

Our automated reaction discovery program, AutoMeKin, has been utilized to investigate the formation of glycolonitrile (HOCH2CN in the gas phase under the low temperatures of the interstellar medium (ISM). The...

Effect of temperature on the gas-phase reaction of CH3CN with OH radicals: experimental (T = 11.7–177.5 K) and computational (T = 10–400 K) kinetic study

“…It is worth noting that reaction (1a) is part of a much larger reaction network recently studied by some of us. 74 The OH-addition to the nitrogen atom, as well as other 4 additional channels previously investigated by Tian et al 51 have very high barriers and are not competitive with reactions (1a) and (1b).…”