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Complex organic molecules that are stable against radiation may pervade interstellar space, with their degradation products a source of those molecules observed. The connexion between biological and interstellar organic chemistry is, however, analogical rather than substantive, and the prospect for interstellar biology is dim. This article is based on Professor Sagan's contribution to a symposium at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, in October 1971.
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SAGAN, C. Interstellar Organic Chemistry. Nature 238, 77–80 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238077a0
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