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ReviewACS earth & space chemistry2026

Interstellar Stereoisomerism.

Víctor M Rivilla, Miguel Sanz-Novo, David San Andrés

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Review in ACS earth & space chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Víctor M RivillaCSIC-INTA, Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Ctra. de Ajalvir, km. 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid E-28850, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2887-5859
Miguel Sanz-NovoCSIC-INTA, Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Ctra. de Ajalvir, km. 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid E-28850, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9629-0257
David San AndrésCSIC-INTA, Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Ctra. de Ajalvir, km. 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid E-28850, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-4397

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing detection of new molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) shows that stereoisomerism is a fundamental contributor to interstellar molecular complexity. This work presents the first comprehensive overview of interstellar stereoisomerism. A total of 16 stereoisomeric pairs have been identified (13 conformational and 3 geometric), spanning molecules with 5-12 atoms and energy separations from ∼10 K to 2667 K. They were observed across diverse astrophysical environments with kinetic temperatures ranging from low to high values (∼7.5 to 300 K). The observed stereoisomeric ratios (OSR)defined as the column density ratio of the higher-energy isomer divided by that of the lower-energy isomervary widely (0.009-4). While systems with small energy differences (<600 K; i.e., ∼1.2 kcal mol

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energyenvironmentshigher-energyinterstellarisomermoleculesratiosstereoisomerismstereoselective

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