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Geochemical and Photochemical Constraints on S[IV] Concentrations in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth

open access: yesAGU Advances, 2023
Aqueous S[IV] species (HSO3−, SO32−) derived from volcanogenic atmospheric SO2 are important to planetary habitability through their roles in proposed origins‐of‐life chemistry and influence on atmospheric sulfur haze formation, but the early cycling of ...
Sukrit Ranjan   +8 more
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Prebiotic Reaction Networks in Water

open access: yesLife, 2020
A prevailing strategy in origins of life studies is to explore how chemistry constrained by hypothetical prebiotic conditions could have led to molecules and system level processes proposed to be important for life’s beginnings. This strategy has yielded
Quoc Phuong Tran   +2 more
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Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth [PDF]

open access: yesNature Astronomy
Earth’s surface is deficient in available forms of many elements considered limiting for prebiotic chemistry. In contrast, many extraterrestrial rocky objects are rich in these same elements.
C. Walton   +7 more
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A Chemist’s Perspective on the Role of Phosphorus at the Origins of Life

open access: yesLife, 2017
The central role that phosphates play in biological systems, suggests they also played an important role in the emergence of life on Earth. In recent years, numerous important advances have been made towards understanding the influence that phosphates ...
Christian Fernández-García   +2 more
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DNA Renaturation at the Water-Phenol Interface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We study DNA adsorption and renaturation in a water-phenol two-phase system, with or without shaking. In very dilute solutions, single-stranded DNA is adsorbed at the interface in a salt-dependent manner.
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The Origin of Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 1974
The origin of life is in a sense a genetic problem, for, as H. J. Muller pointed out many years ago, the essential attribute that identifies living matter is its capacity to replicate itself and its variants (1). Because this uniquely biological property
Horowitz, N. H., Hubbard, Jerry S.
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Organic compounds in fluid inclusions of Archean quartz-Analogues of prebiotic chemistry on early Earth. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The origin of life is still an unsolved mystery in science. Hypothetically, prebiotic chemistry and the formation of protocells may have evolved in the hydrothermal environment of tectonic fault zones in the upper continental crust, an environment where ...
Ulrich Schreiber   +9 more
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Scum of the Earth: A Hypothesis for Prebiotic Multi-Compartmentalised Environments

open access: yesLife, 2021
Compartmentalisation by bioenergetic membranes is a universal feature of life. The eventual compartmentalisation of prebiotic systems is therefore often argued to comprise a key step during the origin of life.
Craig Robert Walton, Oliver Shorttle
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Step by Step Strecker Amino Acid Synthesis from Ab Initio Prebiotic Chemistry.

open access: yesJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021
The amino acids synthesis from elementary precursors in abiotic conditions is traditionally described according to the Strecker reaction, thoroughly invoked to justify the observation of amino acids in extraterrestrial samples and their emergence in the ...
T. Magrino, F. Pietrucci, A. M. Saitta
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Phosphorus in prebiotic chemistry [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006
The prebiotic synthesis of phosphorus-containing compounds—such as nucleotides and polynucleotides—would require both a geologically plausible source of the element and pathways for its incorporation into chemical systems on the primitive Earth. The mineral apatite, which is the only significant source of phosphate on Earth, has long been thought to be
openaire   +2 more sources

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