A lot of the chemical reactions we study in textbook chemistry are between two, or a few reactants. However, when one takes a beaker and leaves two reactants in there, they will produce several generations of products which react with each other. Prebiotic chemists believe that life originated from such complex chemistry, in which from simple organic molecules, the biomolecules of today originated. I worked on modelling the “networks” of such chemical reactions in the summer of 2020, after the first year of my undergraduate studies. I worked an intern as part of the Young Scientist Program of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science.
The work is now published (see Arya et al. (2022) Chemical Science) and other articles I co-authored with my colleagues.
Below you can find the talk I gave as a summer student in 2020. I have learnt a lot about giving presentations since then :).
I submitted the following poster to the 43$^\rm{rd}$ COSPAR Scientific Assembly, which I participated in virtually.
