Między biologią a astrofizyką – ewolucja chemiczna, cyjanopoliyny i dicyjanopoliyny
Between biology and astrophysics – chemical evolution, cyanopolyynes and dicyanopolyynes

Summary/Abstract: We still cannot explain the origins of life on Earth. Theories concerning this subject have to take into account not only the formation of organisms from available macromolecules such as amino acids or purine and pyrimidine nitrogen bases, but also the processes of forming large and complex molecules from small and simple ones. That is, namely, chemical evolution. This may have occurred both on the early Earth and in Space. As such, prebiotic molecules could have been delivered to the surface of our planet or formed directly on it. Studies of the elongation of cyanopolyynes and dicyanopolyynes – potentially prebiotic molecules that have been discovered in interstellar space – allow a glimpse into one step of chemical evolution. These molecules are of interest to modern astrophysics and astrochemistry.

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