Prebiotic synthesis of carboxylic acids, amino acids and nucleic acid bases from formamide under photochemical conditions⋆

Prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids and their building blocks at the atomic level – merging models and mechanisms from advanced computations and experiments

(2016) Judit E. Šponer et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Accumulation of formamide in hydrothermal pores to form prebiotic nucleobases

(2016) Doreen Niether et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environment

(2016) Luca Rotelli et al.   Scientific Reports

Current Advances in Prebiotic Chemistry Under Space Conditions

(2015) Eleonora Carota et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Shedding light on the formation of the pre-biotic molecule formamide with ASAI

(2015) A. López-Sepulcre et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Deuterium Studies Reveal a New Mechanism for the Formose Reaction Involving Hydride Shifts

(2014) Chandrakumar Appayee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Miller experiments in atomistic computer simulations

(2014) A. M. Saitta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-energy chemistry of formamide: A unified mechanism of nucleobase formation

(2014) Martin Ferus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Many Paths to the Origin of Life

(2014) J. Gollihar et al.   SCIENCE

Observations of Interstellar Formamide: Availability of a Prebiotic Precursor in the Galactic Habitable Zone

(2013) Gilles R. Adande et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Materials for the Onset. A story of necessity and chance.

(2013) Ernesto Mauro   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Decomposition Pathways of the Neutral and Protonated Formamide in Some Lower-Lying Excited States

(2013) Huyen Thi Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

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

From the one-carbon amide formamide to RNA all the steps are prebiotically possible

(2012) Raffaele Saladino et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Genetics first or metabolism first? The formamide clue

(2012) Raffaele Saladino et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

On the Road from Formamide Ices to Nucleobases: IR-Spectroscopic Observation of a Direct Reaction between Cyano Radicals and Formamide in a High-Energy Impact Event

(2012) Martin Ferus et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photochemical Synthesis of Citric Acid Cycle Intermediates Based on Titanium Dioxide

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Theoretical Study of Formamide Decomposition Pathways

(2011) Vinh Son Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Formamide and the origin of life

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Photochirogenesis: Photochemical Models on the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality

(2010) Cornelia Meinert et al.   Symmetry-Basel

A comparative photocatalytic activity of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide by investigating the degradation of vanillin

(2009) M. Qamar et al.   DESALINATION

Luminescence tuning and enhanced nonlinear optical properties of nanocomposites of ZnO–TiO2

(2008) Litty Irimpan et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants over titanium dioxide: A review of fundamentals, progress and problems

(2008) Umar Ibrahim Gaya et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS