Extraterrestrial hexamethylenetetramine in meteorites-a precursor of prebiotic chemistry in the inner solar system

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Oba, Yasuhiro, Takano, Yoshinori, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Furukawa, Yoshihiro, Glavin, Daniel P., Dworkin, Jason P., Tachibana, Shogo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research
• Subjects: 430; Tagish; Tagish Lake; Murchison
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/81866; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20038-x

Despite extensive studies on the formation of organic molecules in various extraterrestrial environments, it still remains under debate when, where, and how such molecules were abiotically formed. A key molecule to solve the problem, hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) has not been confirmed in extraterres...