Chiral encoding may provide a simple solution to the origin of life

New insights into prebiotic chemistry from Stanley Miller's spark discharge experiments

(2013) Jeffrey L. Bada   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Functional RNAs exhibit tolerance for non-heritable 2′–5′ versus 3′–5′ backbone heterogeneity

(2013) Aaron E. Engelhart et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

(2013) Frank R. Bowler et al.   Nature Chemistry

Origins of Chemical Evolution

(2012) David Lynn et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Natural versus Artificial Creation of Base Pairs in DNA: Origin of Nucleobases from the Perspectives of Unnatural Base Pair Studies

(2012) Ichiro Hirao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

On the Origin of Single Chirality of Amino Acids and Sugars in Biogenesis

(2012) Jason E. Hein et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Asphalt, Water, and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Ribose, Ribonucleosides, and RNA

(2012) Steven A. Benner et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Chirality, photochemistry and the detection of amino acids in interstellar ice analogues and comets

(2012) Amanda C. Evans et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Pathways for the formation and evolution of peptides in prebiotic environments

(2012) Grégoire Danger et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

Polyaldehydes: homopolymers, block copolymers and promising applications

(2012) Stefan Köstler   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

(2012) V. B. Pinheiro et al.   SCIENCE

Etiology of Potentially Primordial Biomolecular Structures: From Vitamin B12 to the Nucleic Acids and an Inquiry into the Chemistry of Life’s Origin: A Retrospective

(2011) Albert Eschenmoser   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Efficient enzyme-free copying of all four nucleobases templated by immobilized RNA

(2011) Christopher Deck et al.   Nature Chemistry

A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials

(2011) Jason E. Hein et al.   Nature Chemistry

Ribozyme-Catalyzed Transcription of an Active Ribozyme

(2011) A. Wochner et al.   SCIENCE

Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter As Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite

(2011) C. D. K. Herd et al.   SCIENCE

Synthesis and Properties of the Simplified Nucleic Acid Glycol Nucleic Acid

(2010) Eric Meggers et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

An overview of the recent developments in polylactide (PLA) research

(2010) K. Madhavan Nampoothiri et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

The Silicate-Mediated Formose Reaction: Bottom-Up Synthesis of Sugar Silicates

(2010) J. B. Lambert et al.   SCIENCE

Racemic β-Sheets as Templates of Relevance to the Origin of Homochirality of Peptides: Lessons from Crystal Chemistry

(2009) Isabelle Weissbuch et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Chemistry and the Missing Era of Evolution

(2008) A. Graham Cairns-Smith   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL