Reply to Choukroun et al.: IR and TPD data suggest the formation of clathrate hydrates in laboratory experiments simulating ISM

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¹ Department of Science and Technology (DST) Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
² Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India rajnish@iitm.ac.in pradeep@iitm.ac.in.
⁴ Department of Science and Technology (DST) Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India; rajnish@iitm.ac.in pradeep@iitm.ac.in.

Comment

Jyotirmoy Ghosh et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 16;116(29):14409-14410.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905894116. Epub 2019 Jul 3.

¹ Department of Science and Technology (DST) Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
² Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India rajnish@iitm.ac.in pradeep@iitm.ac.in.
⁴ Department of Science and Technology (DST) Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India; rajnish@iitm.ac.in pradeep@iitm.ac.in.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Clathrate hydrates in interstellar environment.
Ghosh J, Methikkalam RRJ, Bhuin RG, Ragupathy G, Choudhary N, Kumar R, Pradeep T. Ghosh J, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jan 29;116(5):1526-1531. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1814293116. Epub 2019 Jan 10. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 30630945 Free PMC article.
No compelling evidence for clathrate hydrate formation under interstellar medium conditions over laboratory time scales.
Choukroun M, Vu TH, Fayolle EC. Choukroun M, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 16;116(29):14407-14408. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902381116. Epub 2019 Jul 3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31270233 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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