http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112887638/quantum-tunneling-methoxy-radicals-space-chemical-compounds-063013/
"In this new work, methanol and an oxidizing chemical called the ‘hydroxyl radical’ were allowed to mix at minus 210 degrees Celsius, simulating conditions of deep space. They found that the methoxy radicals were produced as a result of quantum tunneling. Not only that, but the reaction rate was 50 times that of similar mixing at room temperature." “If our results continue to show a similar increase in the reaction rate at very cold temperatures, then scientists have been severely underestimating the rates of formation and destruction of complex molecules, such as alcohols, in space,”
