molecules:ism:cyanomethanimin [CDMS classic documentation]

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===== The Detection of Cyanomethanimine in the ISM =====

Cyanomethanimine, HNCHCN, is a slightly unsaturated sibling of [[molecules:ism:aan|aminoacetonitrile]], H<sub>2</sub>NCH<sub>2</sub>CN. It has been identified recently by\\
D. P. Zaleski, N. A. Seifert, A. L. Steber, M. T. Muckle, R. A. Loomis, J. F. Corby, O. Martinez, Jr., K. N. Crabtree, P. R. Jewell, J. M. Hollis, F. J. Lovas, D. Vasquez, J Nyiramahirw, N. Sciortino, K. Johnson, M. C. McCarthy, A. J. Remijan, and B. H. Pate,\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/765/1/L10|Detection of //E//-Cyanomethanimine toward Sagittarius B2(N) in the Green Bank Telescope PRIMOS Survey]]**\\
//Astrophys. J// **765**, Art. No. 10 (2013).\\
8 rotational transitions were detected for the higher energy //E//-conformer and none for the lower energy //Z//-conformer. The non-observation of the //Z//-conformer was attributed to the much smaller dipole moment components. The transitions had //J// < 5 and //K<sub>a</sub>// < 1, occured between 9 and 48 GHz and were all seen in absorption. Some transitions displayed <sup>14</sup>N hyperfine splitting. The lines were detected in the two well known velocity components 64 km/s and 82 km/s, though (partial) overlap occured for the latter in some lines. A rotational temperature of about 8 K was derived.\\
These, as well as other observations of fairly complex molecules toward Sgr B2(N) at apperently low rotational temperatures, may be related to findings by\\
M. A. Requena-Torres, J. Martín-Pintado, A. Rodríguez-Franco, S. Martín, N. J. Rodríguez-Fernández, and P. de Vicente,\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065190|Organic Molecules in the Galactic Center – Hot Core Chemistry without Hot Cores]]**\\
//Astron. Astrophys.// **455**, 971–985 (2006);\\
and by\\
M. A. Requena-Torres, J. Martín-Pintado, S. Martín, and M. R. Morris,\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1086/523627|The Galactic Center: The Largest Oxygen-bearing Organic Molecule Repository]]**\\
//Astrophys. J.// **672**, 352–360 (2008).

V. M. Rivilla, J. Martín-Pintado, I. Jiménez-Serra, S. Zeng, S. Martín, J. Armijos-Abendañdo, M. A. Requena-Torres, R. Aladro, and D. Riquelme\\
reported on\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly228|Abundant Z-cyanomethanimine in the Interstellar Medium: Paving the Way to the Synthesis of Adenine]]**\\
//Mon. Not. R. Soc. Astron.// **483**, L114–L119 (2019).\\
The results were obtained in the course of a line survey of the Galactic center source G 0.693–0.03 at 3 mm using the IRAM 30 m dish; additional observation around 1.3 cm were carried out with the GBT 100 m dish. The E-conformer was also identified. The Z/E ratio of about six indicated thermal equilibrium at the kinetic temperature of the cloud. The excitation temperature, in contrast, is rather cold, about 8 K.


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Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 02, 2013; 01, 2019

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