C9H8
Common Name: indene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First pure hydrocarbon polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon discovered in space
Below is a rogue's gallery of the molecules discovered for the first time in the interstellar medium by the McGuire group and its members.
1-C10H7CN
Common Name: 1-cyanonaphthalene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon discovered in space (alongside 2-cyanonapthalane)
2-C10H7CN
Common Name: 2-cyanonaphthalene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon discovered in space (alongside 1-cyanonapthalane)
H2CCCHC3N
Common Name: cyanoacetyleneallene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
H2CCHC3N
Common Name: vinylcyanoacetylene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
HCCCHCHCN
Common Name: cyanovinylacetylene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
2-C5H5CN
Common Name: 2-cyano-cyclopentadiene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
1-C5H5CN
Common Name: 1-cyano-cyclopentadiene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First molecule containing a five-membered ring detected in space
HC11N
Common Name: Cyanopentaacetylene Year Discovered: 2021 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
HC4NC
Common Name: Isocyanoacetylene Year Discovered: 2020 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
HCCCH2CN
Common Name: Propargyl cyanide Year Discovered: 2020 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
C6H5CN
Common Name: Benzonitrile Year Discovered: 2018 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First molecule containing a benzene ring seen by radio astronomy
CH3OCH2OH
Common Name: Methoxymethanol Year Discovered: 2017 Source: NGC6334I Telescope: ALMA Fun Fact: Several orders of magnitude more abundant than predicted by models
HC7O
Common Name: Hexadiynylformyl radical Year Discovered: 2017 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: Confirmed in Cordiner et al. 2017
HC5O
Common Name: Butadiynylformyl radical Year Discovered: 2017 Source: TMC-1 Telescope: GBT
CH3CHCH2O
Common Name: Propylene oxide Year Discovered: 2016 Source: Sgr B2(N) Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: First chiral molecule discovered outside the solar system
HNCNH
Common Name: Carbodiimide Year Discovered: 2012 Source: Sgr B2(N) Telescope: GBT Fun Fact: Discovered by maser transitions