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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 12, 期 20, 页码 5285-5294出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b923439j
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- Ramon Areces Foundation
- Italian Ministry MIUR [COFIN2006, 2006032335_ 005]
A Strecker-type synthesis of glycine by reacting NH3, H2C=O and HCN in presence of ice water (H2O-ice) as a catalyst has been theoretically studied at B3LYP/6-31+G(d, p) level within a cluster approach in order to mimic reactions occurring in the interstellar and circumstellar medium (ICM). Results indicate that, despite the exoergonic character of the considered reactions occurring at the H2O-ice surface, the kinetics are slow due to relatively high electronic energy barriers (Delta U-0(not equal) = 15-45 kcal mol(-1)). Reactions occurring within H2O-ice cavities, in which ice bulk effects have been modeled by assuming a dielectric continuum (e = 78), show energy barriers low enough to allow NH2CH2OH formation but not NH=CH2 (DUa0 = 2 and 21 kcal mol(-1), respectively) thus hindering the NH2CH2CN formation, i.e. the precursor of glycine, through Strecker channels. Moreover, hydrolysis of NH2CH2CN to give glycine is characterized by high electronic energy barriers (Delta U-0(not equal) = 27-34 kcal mol(-1)) and cannot readily occur at cryogenic temperatures. Nevertheless, the facts that NHQCH2 formation can readily be achieved through the radical -radical HCN+2H -NHQCH2 reaction [ D. E. Woon, Astrophys. J., 2002, 571, L177 -L180], and that present results indicate that the Strecker step of NH=CH2+ HCN-NH2CH2CN exhibits a relative low energy barrier (DUa0 = 8 -(kcal mol(-1)), suggest that a combination of these two mechanisms allows for the formation of NH2CH2CN in the ICM. These results strengthen the thesis that NH2CH2CN could have been formed and protected by icy dust particles, and then delivered through micro-bombardments onto the early Earth, leading to glycine formation upon contact with the primordial ocean.
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