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Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life
Nature Communications, 2018 Prebiotic chemistry, driven by changing environmental parameters provides canonical and a multitude of non-canonical nucleosides. This suggests that Watson-Crick base pairs were selected from a diverse pool of nucleosides in a pre-Darwinian chemical ...
Sidney Becker +3 more
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Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.The study of the Diels–Alder reaction of cinnamaldehyde and cyclopentadiene, catalyzed by chiral imidazolidine‐4‐thiones, led to the discovery of a highly regio‐ and stereoselective Michael‐addition and consecutive ring closure. Here, the imidazolidine‐4‐thione not only catalytically activates cinnamaldehyde but also participates as the nucleophile to ...
Marian S. R. Ebeling +5 more
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Silent Partners in the Mill: Unveiling the Role of Additives in Mechanochemical Synthesis
Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.Mechanochemistry offers a sustainable, solvent‐free alternative to traditional synthesis, often enhanced by additives in a process known as additive‐assisted grinding. This review discusses how various additives, including liquids, ionic solids, and advanced materials like ionic liquids and piezoelectric compounds, improve reaction efficiency ...
Johanna Breinsperger +3 more
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Control of self-assembly pathways toward conglomerate and racemic supramolecular polymers
Nature Communications, 2020 Homo- and heterochiral aggregation is a process of interest to prebiotic and chiral separation chemistry. Here, the authors analyze the self-assembly of a racemic mixture into 1D supramolecular polymers and find homochiral aggregation into conglomerates ...
Marius Wehner +3 more
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Motility at the origin of life: Its characterization and a model
, 2013 Due to recent advances in synthetic biology and artificial life, the origin of life is currently a hot topic of research. We review the literature and argue that the two traditionally competing "replicator-first" and "metabolism-first" approaches are ...
Froese, Tom +2 more
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract On the centennial of higher education in Chemical Engineering in Mexico, it is pertinent to revisit the key stages that have contributed to its consolidation as a vital discipline for the nation's scientific and technological advancement. Although the initial mission of chemical engineering education was primarily oriented toward the training ...
Agustín López Munguía +3 more
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Prebiotic thiol-catalyzed thioamide bond formation
Geochemical TransactionsThioamide bonds are important intermediates in prebiotic chemistry. In cyanosulfidic prebiotic chemistry, they serve as crucial intermediates in the pathways that lead to the formation of many important biomolecules (e.g., amino acids).
Andrew S. Hyde, Christopher H. House
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Considering planetary environments in origin of life studies
Nature Communications, 2018 Early Earth geological conditions would have affected prebiotic chemistry: particularly the lack of atmospheric oxygen, presence of dissolved iron, and increased high-energy radiation.
Laura M. Barge
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The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA. [PDF]
, 2011 In the early 'RNA world' stage of life, RNA stored genetic information and catalyzed chemical reactions. However, the RNA world eventually gave rise to the DNA-RNA-protein world, and this transition included the 'genetic takeover' of information storage ...
Chen, Irene A +4 more
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Computer‐Aided Functional Oligosaccharide Screening and the Regulatory Role in Lipid Metabolism
Food Bioengineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigated the lipid‐lowering effects and intervention mechanisms of structurally diverse functional oligosaccharides on non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). By integrating computational tools such as molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations (MDS), a comprehensive “in silico‐in vitro‐in vivo” tri‐dimensional ...
Rui Jing +3 more
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