New alcohol added to space-stuff catalog

Astrochemists have discovered another organic chemical in the same region of space

Radio emissions revealed the telltale signature of vinyl alcohol’s arrangement of two carbons, four hydrogens, and one oxygen. R. Savidge

where other researchers had identified the first extraterrestrial sugar (SN:

6/24/00, p. 405). On Earth, the alcohol is used to make packaging polymers.