From Interstellar Chemistry to Exoplanet Atmospheres: New Frontiers at the Intersection of Chemical Physics and Astrophysics

Presentations

• Ionization-Driven Chemistry in CO₂–H₂O Clusters: Cooperative Peroxide Bond Formation Relevant to Interstellar Ices and Icy Worlds

  ORAL · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Musahid Ahmed

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Musahid Ahmed

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Molecular Astrophysics: A Quantum Chemical Perspective on Molecular Synthesis and Destruction in Astrophysical Environments

  ORAL · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Josie Hendrix, Partha P. Bera, Timothy J. Lee & Martin Head-Gordon (25 Sep
  2023): Quantum chemical exploration of the binding motifs and binding energies of neutral
  molecules, radicals and ions with small water clusters: characterisation and astrochemical
  implications, Molecular Physics, DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2252100

  Presenters

  • Partha P Bera

    • NASA Ames Research Center

  Authors

  • Partha P Bera

    • NASA Ames Research Center

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• The Chemistry of Exoplanet Atmospheres

  ORAL · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Caroline Morley

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Caroline Morley

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• The Cosmochemical Cycle of Organic Matter

  ORAL · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: M. Patch, R. McClish, S. Panchagnula, D. B. Rap, S. Banhatti, H. R. Hrodmarsson, S. Brünken, H. Linnartz, A. G. G. M. Tielens, and J. Bouwman, "Radical Isomerization upon Dissociative Electron Ionization of Anthracene and Phenanthrene", Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2025), 147, 38, 34508–34516
  
  J. Bouwman, M.N. McCabe, C.N. Shingledecker, J. Wandishin, V. Jarvis, E. Reusch, P. Hemberger and A. Bodi, "Five-membered ring compounds from the ortho-benzyne + methyl radical reaction under interstellar conditions", Nature Astronomy, 7 (2023), 423–430
  
  J. Bouwman, A.J. de Haas, J. Oomens, "Spectroscopic evidence for the formation of pentalene+ in the dissociative ionization of naphthalene", Chemical Communications, 52 (2016), 2636-2638
  
  A. J. de Haas, J. Oomens, and J. Bouwman*, "Facile pentagon formation in the dissociation of polyaromatics", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (2017), 2974-2980
  

  Presenters

  • Jordy Bouwman

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Jordy Bouwman

    • University of Colorado Boulder

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