Handbook of Astrochemistry

Part 1: Introduction
1. General Introduction: historical perspective and current state-of-the-art
2. Observations and history: From clouds to proto-stars
3. Observations and history: From disks to planets

Part 2: Observations
4. Observations of gas phase: simple molecules inc. mapping
5. Observations of gas phase: COMs inc. mapping
6. Observations of ices

Part 3: Astrochemical modelling
7. The use of databases in astrochemistry
8. Astrochemical modelling

Part 4: Gas phase astrochemistry
9. Experimental gas phase atomic and molecular spectroscopy
10. Theoretical gas phase spectroscopy
11. Experimental gas phase processes: scattering, photodissociation, dynamics and kinetics of molecule formation
12. Theoretical gas phase processes: scattering, photodissociation, dynamics and kinetics of molecule formation

Part 5: Grain and aerosol chemistry
13. Grains: origins, observations and astrophysical roles; composition, size and shape origins, space-weathering, surface composition
14. Bare grain chemistry: small molecule formation; theory and experimental
15. Aerosol Processes - Experiment and Theory

Part 6: Chemistry in ices
16. Ice formation: experimental and theoretical
17. Thermal and non-thermal desorption of ices
18. Energetic processing of ices
19. Ice spectroscopy/solid state spectroscopy/optical constants and theory

Part 7: Moving from molecules to planets and life
20. From dust to planetesimals
21. Experimental, Computational and Modelling studies of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
22. From astrochemistry towards astrobiology
23. The origins of chirality

Part 8: Conclusions
24. Conclusions and Forward Look

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• Química física
• Cosmologia e o Universo

Observational molecular astronomy; Astrochemical modelling; Experimental astrochemistry; Computational astrochemistry; Star and planet formation