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Methyl carbamate CH$_3$OC(O)NH$_2$ is an isomer of glycine. Quantum chemical analyses show that methyl carbamate is more stable isomer than glycine. Because of this, there could be a higher chance for methyl carbamte to exist in the interstellar medium as compared to glycine. Despite immense searches, till now glycine has not been detected in the ISM, therefore it is worthwhile to search its isomer methyl carbamate. In this paper, we present the constraints of methyl carbamate formation under the interstellar conditions. Large complex organic molecules are favorably produced in hot-corino environments of low mass protostars. We for the first time carried out astrochemical modeling focusing on the formation of methyl carbamate in physical conditions similar to hot-corino objects. Consequently, we examined ALMA archival data for existing spectral line observations toward hot corinos NGC1333 IRAS 4A2 and IRAS 16293B. Within the common spectral range towards these sources, we found three features are possibly related to the spectral transitions of methyl carbamate and consequently estimate the upper limit of column densities. Results of chemical modeling are consistent with the observational upper limit of estimated column density/abundance toward the sources. This may hint the validation of the proposed formation mechanism. Future observations using telescope like ngVLA may confirm the presence of MC toward the hot corinos.
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Methyl formate, HCOOCH$_3$, and many of its isotopologues have been detected in astrophysical regions with considerable abundances. However, the recipe for the formation of this molecule and its isotopologues is not yet known. In this work, we attempt to investigate, theoretically, the successful recipe for the formation of interstellar HCOOCH$_3$ and its deuterated isotopologues. We used the gas-grain chemical model, UCLCHEM, to examine the possible routes of formation of methyl formate on grain surfaces and in the gas-phase in low-mass star-forming regions. Our models show that radical-radical association on grains are necessary to explain the observed abundance of DCOOCH$_3$ in the protostar IRAS~16293--2422. H-D substitution reactions on grains significantly enhance the abundances of HCOOCHD$_2$, DCOOCHD$_2$, and HCOOCD$_3$. The observed abundance of HCOOCHD$_2$ in IRAS 16293--2422 can only be reproduced if H-D substitution reactions are taken into account. However, HCOOCH$_2$D remain underestimated in all of our models. The deuteration of methyl formate appears to be more complex than initially thought. Additional studies, both experimentally and theoretically, are needed for a better understanding of the interstellar formation of these species.
Amino acids are the essential keys in chemistry that contribute to the study of the formation of life. The complex organic molecule glycine (NH$_{2}$CH$_{2}$COOH) is the simplest amino acid that has been investigated in the interstellar medium for a long period to search for a potential connection between the Universe and the origin of life. In the last forty years, several attempts have failed to detect the interstellar glycine in the hot molecular cores and star-forming regions. We report the possible detection of the rotational emission lines of interstellar glycine with conformer I and II in the hot molecular core G10.47+0.03 between the frequency range of $ u$ = 158.6$-$160.4 GHz with Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation. Under the Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE) condition, we apply the rotational diagram method to estimate the column density ($N$) and rotational temperature ($T_{rot}$) of the detected amino acid glycine. Using rotational diagram, we find the column density of glycine $N$(NH$_{2}$CH$_{2}$COOH) = 2.8$times$10$^{18}$ cm$^{-2}$ with rotational temperature $T_{rot}$ = 115.9 K. We also apply the Levenberg$-$Marquardt algorithm to extract the line parameters of detected emission lines of glycine.
Context: Solar-like protostars are known to be chemically rich, but it is not yet clear how much their chemical composition can vary and why. So far, two chemically distinct types of Solar-like protostars have been identified: hot corinos, which are enriched in interstellar Complex Organic Molecules (iCOMs), such as methanol (CH$_3$OH) or dimethyl ether (CH$_3$OCH$_3$), and Warm Carbon Chain Chemistry (WCCC) objects, which are enriched in carbon chain molecules, such as butadiynyl (C$_4$H) or ethynyl radical (CCH). However, none of these have been studied so far in environments similar to that in which our Sun was born, that is, one that is close to massive stars. Aims: In this work, we search for hot corinos and WCCC objects in the closest analogue to the Suns birth environment, the Orion Molecular Cloud 2/3 (OMC-2/3) filament located in the Orion A molecular cloud. Methods: We obtained single-dish observations of CCH and CH$_3$OH line emission towards nine Solar-like protostars in this region. As in other, similar studies of late, we used the [CCH]/[CH$_3$OH] abundance ratio in order to determine the chemical nature of our protostar sample. Results: Unexpectedly, we found that the observed methanol and ethynyl radical emission (over a few thousands au scale) does not seem to originate from the protostars but rather from the parental cloud and its photo-dissociation region, illuminated by the OB stars of the region. Conclusions: Our results strongly suggest that caution should be taken before using [CCH]/[CH$_3$OH] from single-dish observations as an indicator of the protostellar chemical nature and that there is a need for other tracers or high angular resolution observations for probing the inner protostellar layers.
(Abridged) We aim to enlarge the number of known hot corinos and carry out a first comparative study with hot cores. The ultimate goal is to understand whether complex organic molecules form in the gas phase or on grain surfaces, and what the possible key parameters are. We observed millimeter rotational transitions of HCOOH, HCOOCH3, CH3OCH3, CH3CN, and C2H5CN in a sample of low-mass protostars with the IRAM-30m. Using the rotational diagram method coupled with the information about the sources structure, we calculate the abundances of the observed molecules. To interpret these abundances, we review the proposed formation processes of the above molecules. We report the detection of HCOOCH3 and/or CH3CN towards NGC1333-IRAS4B and NGC1333-IRAS2A. We find that abundance ratios of O-bearing molecules to methanol or formaldehyde in hot corinos are comparable and about unity, and are relatively (depending on how the ratios are determined) higher than those in hot cores and in Galactic center clouds. So far, complex organic molecules were detected in all the hot corinos where they were searched for, suggesting that it is a common phase for low-mass protostars. While some evidence points to grain-surface synthesis (either in the cold or warm-up phase) of these molecules (in particular for HCOOH and HCOOCH3), the present data do not allow us to disregard gas-phase formation. More observational, laboratory, and theoretical studies are required to improve our understanding of hot corinos.
G31.41+0.31 is a well known chemically rich hot molecular core (HMC). Using Band 3 observations of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), we have analyzed the chemical and physical properties of the source. We have identified methyl isocyanate (CH3NCO), a precursor of prebiotic molecules, towards the source. In addition to this, we have reported complex organic molecules (COMs) like methanol (CH3OH), methanethiol (CH3SH), and methyl formate (CH3OCHO). Additionally, we have used transitions from molecules like HCN, HCO+, SiO to trace the presence of infall and outflow signatures around the star-forming region. For the COMs, we have estimated the column densities and kinetic temperatures, assuming molecular excitation under local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) conditions. From the estimated kinetic temperatures of certain COMs, we found that multiple temperature components may be present in the HMC environment. Comparing the obtained molecular column densities between the existing observational results toward other HMCs, it seems that the COMs are favourably produced in the hot-core environment ($sim 100$ K or higher). Though the spectral emissions towards G31.41+0.31 are not fully resolved, we find that CH$_3$NCO and other COMs are possibly formed on the grain/ice phase and populate the gas environment similar to other hot cores like Sgr B2, Orion KL, and G10.47+0.03, etc.
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