Phenol, which belongs to the C6H6O isomeric group, is the simplest molecule in the family of alcohol of the aromatic series. Although phenol has yet to be detected in the interstellar medium, a tentative identification was reported toward the Orion KL hot core using the IRAM-30 m line survey. To explore some more species of this isomeric group, we consider ten species to study the fate of their astronomical detection. It is noticed that phenol is the most energetically favorable isomer of this group. In contrast, propargyl ether is the least favorable (having relative energy ～103 kcal mol-1 compared to phenol) species of this group. So far, the studies associated with the formation of phenol are heavily concentrated on combustion chemistry. Here, we suggest a few key reactions (C6H6+OH→C6H5+H2O, C6H6+O→C6H5OH, C6H6+H→C6H5+H2, and C6H5+OH→C6H5OH+hν) for the formation of phenol. All these pathways are included in a large gas-grain chemical network to study its formation in high mass star-forming regions and dark cloud environments. It is noticed that the phenyl (-C6H5) formation by the ice-phase hydrogen abstraction reaction of benzene (i.e., C6H6+OH→C6H5+H2O if allowed at～10 K) could serve as the starting point for the formation of phenol in the gas phase by radiative association reaction C6H5+OH→C6H5OH+hν. The gas-phase reaction C6H6+O→C6H5OH significantly contributes to the formation of phenol, when the ice-phase reaction C6H6+OH→C6H5+H2O is not considered at low temperature. Band 4 ALMA archival data of a hot molecular core, G10.47+0.03, are analyzed. It yields an upper limit on phenol abundance of 5.19 × 10-9. Our astrochemical model delivers an upper limit on phenol abundance of～2.20 × 10-9 in the hot molecular core, whereas its production in the dark cloud is not satisfactory.

Rana Ghosh;Milan Sil;Suman Kumar Mondal;Prasanta Gorai;Dipen Sahu;Rahul Kumar Kushwaha;Bhalamurugan Sivaraman;Ankan Das

Indian Centre for Space Physics,43 Chalantika,Garia Station Road,Kolkata 700084,India;S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,Salt Lake,Kolkata 700106,India;Department of Space,Earth&Environment,Chalmers University of Technology,SE-41296 Gothenburg,Sweden;Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Academia Sinica Taipei,Taipei 10617,China;Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory,Institute for Nuclear Research(Atomki),Debrecen H-4026,Hungary;Physical Research Laboratory,Navrangpura,Ahmedabad 380009,India

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[1]Rana Ghosh;Milan Sil;Suman Kumar Mondal;Prasanta Gorai;Dipen Sahu;Rahul Kumar Kushwaha;Bhalamurugan Sivaraman;Ankan Das-.Phenol in High-mass Star-forming Regions)[J].天文和天体物理学研究,2022(06):256-268

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