Inorganic Fe-O and Fe-S oxidoreductases: paradigms for prebiotic chemistry and the evolution of enzymatic activity in biology. [PDF]
Front ChemOxidoreductases play crucial roles in electron transfer during biological redox reactions. These reactions are not exclusive to protein-based biocatalysts; nano-size (
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Plasma Modeling and Prebiotic Chemistry: A Review of the State-of-the-Art and Perspectives. [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 We review the recent progress in the modeling of plasmas or ionized gases, with compositions compatible with that of primordial atmospheres. The plasma kinetics involves elementary processes by which free electrons ultimately activate weakly reactive ...
Micca Longo G +4 more
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An XPS study of HCN-derived films on pyrite surfaces: a prebiotic chemistry standpoint towards the development of protective coatings. [PDF]
RSC Adv, 2021 Traditionally, the effect of mineral surfaces on increasing molecular complexity has been considered a major issue in studies about the origin of life.
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Nanoscale Anatomy of Iron-Silica Self-Organized Membranes: Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry. [PDF]
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2021 Iron‐silica self‐organized membranes, so‐called chemical gardens, behave as fuel cells and catalyze the formation of amino/carboxylic acids and RNA nucleobases from organics that were available on early Earth.
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Extraterrestrial hexamethylenetetramine in meteorites-a precursor of prebiotic chemistry in the inner solar system. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 Despite extensive studies on the formation of organic molecules in various extraterrestrial environments, it still remains under debate when, where, and how such molecules were abiotically formed.
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Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: from minerals to microbes
Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 Phosphorus availability is considered a limiting factor in many scenarios for the origin of life. The concentration of P in environments of prebiotic interest will have been governed by the available mineral sources of P on the early Earth.
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Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments. [PDF]
Orig Life Evol Biosph, 2022 The Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium is a community of researchers seeking to understand the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. PCE3 is one of five Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) within NASA's Astrobiology Program.
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Prebiotic Chemistry: Geochemical Context and Reaction Screening [PDF]
Life, 2013 The origin of life on Earth is widely believed to have required the reactions of organic compounds and their self- and/or environmental organization. What those compounds were remains open to debate, as do the environment in and process or processes by ...
Henderson James Cleaves
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Komatiites as Complex Adsorption Surfaces for Amino Acids in Prebiotic Environments, a Prebiotic Chemistry Essay [PDF]
Life, 2022 Komatiites represent the oldest known terrestrial rocks, and their composition has been cataloged as the closest to that of the first terrestrial crust after the cooling of the magma ocean.
Abigail E. Cruz-Hernández +3 more
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Radicals in prebiotic chemistry
Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2020 Radical chemistry is tightly interwoven in proposed prebiotic synthetic pathways, reaction networks and geochemical scenarios that have helped shape our understanding of how life could have originated.
Renee Lim, A. Fahrenbach
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