Cyanide compounds are very
reactive, so reactions on early Earth could have led to the more complex organic
molecules that
life needed (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009gl040252).
In a new paper published online today in Nature Chemistry («On - surface generation and imaging of arynes by atomic force microscopy»), scientists from IBM Research and CIQUS at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, have confirmed the existence and characterized the structure of arynes, a family of highly -
reactive short -
lived molecules which was first suggested 113 years ago.