Nano-FTIR spectroscopic identification of prebiotic carbonyl compounds in Dominion Range 08006 carbonaceous chondrite

• Main Authors: Yeşiltaş, Mehmet, Glotch, Timothy D., Sava, Boğdan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
• Subjects: Insoluble Organic-Matter; Tagish Lake Meteorite; Infrared-Spectroscopy; Carboxylic-Acids; Solar-System; Spectra; Metamorphism; Aldehydes; Minerals; Grains; Tagish; Tagish Lake; Dominion Range
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/3660; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91200-8

Meteorites contain organic matter that may have contributed to the origin of life on Earth. Carbonyl compounds such as aldehydes and carboxylic acids, which occur in meteorites, may be precursors of biologically necessary organic materials in the solar system. Therefore, such organic matter is of as...