Studies on Products, Formed when C₂ Hydrocarbon-Ammonia-Water Vapor System was Submitted to an Electric Discharget

Abstract

Previously, products, formed when methane-ammonia-water vapor system was submitted to an electric discharge have been studied. The present experiments are concerned with qualitative and quantitative analyses of the decomposition products formed from C₂ hydrocarbon such as ethane, ethylene or acetylene and of the amino acids produced from C₂ hydrocarbonammonia-water vapor system. C₂ hydrocarbon was abundantly formed from methane and probably would exist in interstellar space, e. g. Jupiter and Saturn. The yield of unsaturated hydrocarbons was generally higher than that of saturated hydrocarbons in the single system hydrocarbon alone. Despite the kinds of hydrocarbon product were quite similar with each other in the single system of methane, ethylene or ethane alone, different kinds of product were found in the single system of acetylene alone. Cyclobutadiene was considered to be an important intermediate to elucidate the mechanism of these reactions. As for C₂ hydrocarbonammonia system and C₂ hydrocarbon-water vapor system, the same kinds of amine, cyanide