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Complex Organic Synthesis: Structure, Properties, and/or Function?

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The role of proton shuttling mechanisms in solvent-free and catalyst-free acetalization reactions of imines

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Positive Effect of Water in Asymmetric Direct Aldol Reactions with Primary Amine Organocatalyst: Experimental and Computational Studies

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Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…

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A theoretical study of the nornicotine-catalyzed Mannich reaction in wet solvents and water

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An unprecedented use for glycerol: chemoselective reducing agent for sulfoxides

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Glycerol/hypophosphorous acid: an efficient system solvent-reducing agent for the synthesis of 2-organylselanyl pyridines

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Glycerol: A promising Green Solvent and Reducing Agent for Metal-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions and Nanoparticles Formation

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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

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Computational Analysis of the Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Terms of Reaction Phases: Hidden Intermediates and Hidden Transition States

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Water: Nature’s Reaction Enforcer—Comparative Effects for Organic Synthesis “In-Water” and “On-Water”

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Dyotropic Reactions: Mechanisms and Synthetic Applications†

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Mechanism of the Hydration of Carbon Dioxide: Direct Participation of H2O versus Microsolvation

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Calculation of Solvation Free Energies of Charged Solutes Using Mixed Cluster/Continuum Models

(2008) Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

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A Reassessment of Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres

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