Just hitting the shelves in PCCP is our collaborative work with Helen Maynard-Casely at ANSTO and Sam Duyker at USyd where we have solved the solid structure of propanal ice absent from the literature. Based on Nick Yevstigneyev’s CHEM390 and Summer Scholarship project at Chemistry Otago, we now have data to look for this small astromolecule, and potential amino acid precursor, in planetary environments.
Read Here: Maynard-Casely, Yevstigneyev, Duyker & Ennis, PCCP, 2021
