Submillimeter wave spectroscopy and ISM search for propionic acid

Margulès, L.

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Title

Submillimeter wave spectroscopy and ISM search for propionic acid

Author(s)

Margulès, L.

Contributor(s)

• Guillemin, J.-C.
• Cernicharo, Jose
• Kolesniková, Lucie
• Alonso, Elena R.
• Alekseev, E.A.
• Dorovskaya, Olga
• Ilyushin, V.
• Motiyenko, R.A.

Issue Date

2019-06-20

Keyword(s)

Astrochemistry and astrobiology in the age of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

Abstract

Two compounds with a C$_{2}$H$_{4}$O$_{2}$ formula have been detected in the Interstellar Medium (ISM): acetic acid (CH$_{3}$CO$_{2}$H) and methyl formate (CH$_{3}$OC(O)H), the latter being thermodynamically less stable than the former but more abundant. Among the higher homologues with a C$_{3}$H$_{6}$O$_{2}$ formula where a hydrogen atom in C$_{2}$H$_{4}$O$_{2}$ has been replaced by a CH$_{3}$ group, two compounds have already been detected: ethyl formate (EtOC(O)H) and methyl acetate (CH$_{3}$OC(O)CH$_{3}$). The higher thermodynamic stability of another isomer, the propionic acid (EtCO$_{2}$H), pushed us to record its rotational spectrum, since this compound has a high probability of being present in the ISM. The methyl top internal rotation should be taken into account, therefore the analysis is performed using RAM36 code.\footnote{Ilyushin, V.V. et al;{\em J. Mol. Spectrosc.}~{\bf259}, (2010) 26} The spectroscopic results and its search in ISM will be presented.\\ \em{This work was supported by the CNES and the Action sur Projets de l'INSU, PCMI}

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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Language

eng

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2019.RG08

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Copyright 2019 L. Margulès

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