Chemical Evolution in Space: The Case of Imines

One of the main aims of astrochemistry is to understand the chemical evolution occurring in space: from diatomics to molecules of a certain degree of complexity and beyond. A significant number of features in astronomical spectra are still unassigned, thus pointing out that we are far from a complete census of interstellar molecules. This calls for new laboratory (experimental-computational) efforts. In parallel, the identification of an increasing number of molecules raises the issue of how these species can be produced in the typical harsh conditions of the interstellar medium. On these grounds, this contribution presents some results obtained by applying a new computational strategy to the specific case of imines, a prototypical class of prebiotic molecules.