Infrared Spectra and Chemical Abundance of Methyl Propionate in Icy Astrochemical Conditions
We carried out an experiment in order to obtain the InfraRed (IR) spectra of methyl propionate (CH3CH2COOCH3) in astrochemical conditions and present the IR spectra for future identification of this molecule in the InterStellar Medium (ISM).
The experimental IR spectrum is compared with the theoretical spectrum and an attempt was made to assign the observed peak positions to their corresponding molecular vibrations in condensed phase. Moreover, our calculations suggest that methyl propionate must be synthesized efficiently within the complex chemical network of the ISM and therefore be present in cold dust grains, awaiting identification.
B. Sivaraman, N. Radhika, A. Das, G. Gopakumar, L. Majumdar, S. K. Chakrabarti, K. P. Subramanian, B. N. Raja Sekhar, M. Hada (Submitted on 17 Dec 2014)
Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted in MNRAS for publication
Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1412.5582 [astro-ph.GA] (or arXiv:1412.5582v1 [astro-ph.GA] for this version)
Submission history From: Ankan Das [v1] Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:40:02 GMT (754kb) http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5582
