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

Control of the Chirality and Helicity of Oligomers of Serinol Nucleic Acid (SNA) by Sequence Design

(2011) Hiromu Kashida et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: (3′→2′)-D-Phosphoglyceric Acid Linked Acyclic Oligonucleotides Tagged with 2,4-Disubstituted 5-Aminopyrimidines as Recognition Elements

(2011) Marcos Hernández-Rodríguez et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases

(2011) M. P. Callahan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ribozyme-Catalyzed Transcription of an Active Ribozyme

(2011) A. Wochner et al.   SCIENCE

Synthesis and Properties of the Simplified Nucleic Acid Glycol Nucleic Acid

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

A Stereoelectronic Effect in Prebiotic Nucleotide Synthesis

(2010) Amit Choudhary et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase: Isotope Exchange is Consistent with Formation of a σ-Alkane-Nickel Complex

(2010) Silvan Scheller et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Vitamin B12 Mimics Having a Peptide Backbone and Tuneable Coordination and Redox Properties

(2010) Kai Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis: Charting the Mechanistic Landscape

(2010) Teresa B. Fitzpatrick et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Nucleic Acids with a Six-Membered ‘Carbohydrate’ Mimic in the Backbone

(2010) Piet Herdewijn   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Oligonucleotides with Sugars Other Than Ribo- and 2′-Deoxyribofuranose in the Backbone: the Solution Structures Determined by NMR in the Context of the ‘Etiology of Nucleic Acids’ Project of Albert Eschenmoser

(2010) Marc-Olivier Ebert et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Theoretical Studies on the Intermolecular Interactions of Potentially Primordial Base-Pair Analogues

(2010) Judit E. Šponer et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Isovitamin B12: A Vitamin B12 Derivative That Flips Its Tail

(2010) Shahzad Murtaza et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Chemoselective Multicomponent One-Pot Assembly of Purine Precursors in Water

(2010) Matthew W. Powner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Der zerrissene Mensch und unser geteiltes Gedächtnis

(2010)   NACHRICHTEN AUS DER CHEMIE

Enzymes that catalyse SN2 reaction mechanisms

(2010) David O'Hagan et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

The key nickel enzyme of methanogenesis catalyses the anaerobic oxidation of methane

(2010) Silvan Scheller et al.   NATURE

Abiotic formation of uroporphyrinogen and coproporphyrinogen from acyclic reactants

(2010) Jonathan S. Lindsey et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Organocatalysis

(2010) E. N. Jacobsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Attractive noncovalent interactions in asymmetric catalysis: Links between enzymes and small molecule catalysts

(2010) R. R. Knowles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

L-amino acids catalyze the formation of an excess of D-glyceraldehyde, and thus of other D sugars, under credible prebiotic conditions

(2010) R. Breslow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligo-dipeptides Tagged with Orotic Acid Derivatives as Recognition Elements

(2009) Xuejun Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Highly Efficient Small Organic Molecules for Enantioselective Direct Aldol Reaction in Organic and Aqueous Media

(2009) Monika Raj Vishnumaya et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

N2′→P3′ Phosphoramidate Glycerol Nucleic Acid as a Potential Alternative Genetic System

(2009) Jesse J. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Helical Structure of Xylose-DNA

(2009) Amutha Ramaswamy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

On the Emergence of Biochemical Homochirality: An Elusive Beginning

(2009) Sandra Pizzarello et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Asymmetric Autocatalysis Triggered by Carbon Isotope (13C/12C) Chirality

(2009) T. Kawasaki et al.   SCIENCE

Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

(2009) T. A. Lincoln et al.   SCIENCE

Self-Assembling Sequence-Adaptive Peptide Nucleic Acids

(2009) Yasuyuki Ura et al.   SCIENCE

Systems Chemistry on Ribozyme Self-Construction: Evidence for Anabolic Autocatalysis in a Recombination Network

(2008) Eric J. Hayden et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

An Alternative Nucleobase Code: Characterization of Purine-Purine DNA Double Helices Bearing Guanine-Isoguanine and Diaminopurine 7-Deaza-Xanthine Base Pairs

(2008) Benjamin D. Heuberger et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

How can a chemical system act purposefully? Bridging between life and non-life

(2008) Addy Pross   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The Structure of a TNA−TNA Complex in Solution: NMR Study of the Octamer Duplex Derived from α-(l)-Threofuranosyl-(3′-2′)-CGAATTCG

(2008) Marc-Olivier Ebert et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Interactions of d-ribose with polyatomic anions, and alkaline and alkaline-earth cations: possible clues to environmental synthesis conditions in the pre-RNA world

(2008) Ana F. Amaral et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY

Organocatalysis Lost: Modern Chemistry, Ancient Chemistry, and an Unseen Biosynthetic Apparatus

(2007) Carlos F. Barbas   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Achiral Nucleobase Cytosine Acts as an Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules in Conjunction with Asymmetric Autocatalysis

(2007) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION