Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides

Direct Prebiotic Pathway to DNA Nucleosides

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Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations in Natural Waters on Early Earth

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Prebiotic phosphorylation of 2-thiouridine provides either nucleotides or DNA building blocks via photoreduction

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The role of sugar-backbone heterogeneity and chimeras in the simultaneous emergence of RNA and DNA

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Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides

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Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

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A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent

(2018) Angelica Mariani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Selective prebiotic conversion of pyrimidine and purine anhydronucleosides into Watson-Crick base-pairing arabino-furanosyl nucleosides in water

(2018) Samuel J. Roberts et al.   Nature Communications

Inosine, but none of the 8-oxo-purines, is a plausible component of a primordial version of RNA

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The Origin of Chalcogen-Bonding Interactions

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Enhanced Nonenzymatic RNA Copying with 2-Aminoimidazole Activated Nucleotides

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Prebiotic stereoselective synthesis of purine and noncanonical pyrimidine nucleotide from nucleobases and phosphorylated carbohydrates

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RNA-DNA Chimeras in the Context of an RNA World Transition to an RNA/DNA World

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A Highly Reactive Imidazolium-Bridged Dinucleotide Intermediate in Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension

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A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization

(2016) Jianfeng Xu et al.   Nature Chemistry

A high-yielding, strictly regioselective prebiotic purine nucleoside formation pathway

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Serpentinization and the Formation of H2 and CH4 on Celestial Bodies (Planets, Moons, Comets)

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Replacing Uridine with 2-Thiouridine Enhances the Rate and Fidelity of Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension

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Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

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Hydrolytic fitness ofN-glycosyl bonds: comparing the deglycosylation kinetics of modified, alternative, and native nucleosides

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The algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme for the polarization propagator for the calculation of excited states

(2014) Andreas Dreuw et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science

Synthesis of Aldehydic Ribonucleotide and Amino Acid Precursors by Photoredox Chemistry

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Sulfite–sulfide–sulfate–carbonate equilibria with applications to Mars

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On the Origin of the Canonical Nucleobases: An Assessment of Selection Pressures across Chemical and Early Biological Evolution

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A Unified Mechanism for Abiotic Adenine and Purine Synthesis in Formamide

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The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA

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Evolution of functional nucleic acids in the presence of nonheritable backbone heterogeneity

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Recent advances in stereoselective glycosylation through intramolecular aglycon delivery

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Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

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