A Microwave Spectroscopic investigation of 2-Propene-1-Imine for Astrochemical purposes

Abstract

In the attempt of studying the processes that lead to the building blocks of life, in this work the microwave spectroscopic survey conducted on 2-Propene-1-Imine will be presented. This molecule, a possible intermediate in the synthesis of amino acids, would be an important tracer of the aforementioned reaction. In this regard, rotational spectroscopic measurements have been carried out in a range of frequencies ranging from 85GHz to 500GHz, in order to obtain the conformational constants of the two conformers, TA and TS, that come to form precursor pyrolysis, a process made necessary by the instability of the investigated compound. Additionally, what has been collected offer the spectroscopical fingerprints of these two conformational isomers, possibly contributing in the astrochemical evolutional search of more complex compounds from which life, as we know it, may have on Earth originated from.