Mechanisms of Autocatalysis

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

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

The origin of life: what we know, what we can know and what we will never know

(2013) A. Pross et al.   Open Biology

Abiotic Self-Replication

(2012) Adam J. Meyer et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Dynamic Molecular Networks: From Synthetic Receptors to Self-Replicators

(2012) Sijbren Otto   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

Transient Fibril Structures Facilitating Nonenzymatic Self-Replication

(2012) Boris Rubinov et al.   ACS Nano

Observation of a Transient Intermediate in Soai’s Asymmetric Autocatalysis: Insights from 1H NMR Turnover in Real Time

(2012) Timo Gehring et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Excess Mutual Catalysis Is Required for Effective Evolvability

(2012) Omer Markovitch et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Evolution before genes

(2012) Vera Vasas et al.   Biology Direct

Theory, modelling and simulation in origins of life studies

(2012) Peter V. Coveney et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators

(2012) Nilesh Vaidya et al.   NATURE

Amplification of enantiomeric excess, mirror-image symmetry breaking and kinetic proofreading in Soai reaction models with different oligomeric orders

(2012) Jean-Claude Micheau et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Robust self-replication of combinatorial information via crystal growth and scission

(2012) R. Schulman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantification of Sophisticated Equilibria in the Reaction Pool and Amplifying Catalytic Cycle of the Soai Reaction

(2012) Ilya D. Gridnev et al.   ACS Catalysis

Asymmetric Autocatalysis Enables an Improved Synthesis of Efavirenz

(2011) Nicka Chinkov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Autocatalysis: Triggered by Chiral Isotopomer Arising from Oxygen Isotope Substitution

(2011) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Induction Arising from Enantiomerically Enriched Carbon-13 Isotopomers and Highly Sensitive Chiral Discrimination by Asymmetric Autocatalysis

(2011) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Chemical and light triggering of peptide networks under partial thermodynamic control

(2011) Zehavit Dadon et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Rates and equilibria of ester hydrolysis: Combination of slow and rapid reactions

(2011) Olatunde Jogunola et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING

Crystalline Architectures as Templates of Relevance to the Origins of Homochirality

(2011) Isabelle Weissbuch et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Sensing through signal amplification

(2011) Paolo Scrimin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Enantioselective Synthesis Induced by Compounds with Chirality Arising from Partially Deuterated Methyl Groups in Conjunction with Asymmetric Autocatalysis

(2011) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Elucidating the Origin of Diastereoselectivity in a Self-Replicating System: Selfishness versus Altruism

(2011) Arne Dieckmann et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Spontaneous Deracemization

(2011) David B. Amabilino et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

A review of the kinetics and mechanisms of formation of supported-nanoparticle heterogeneous catalysts

(2011) Joseph E. Mondloch et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL

Mechanism-Based Chemical Understanding of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in the Soai Reaction. A Combined Probabilistic and Deterministic Description of Chemical Reactions

(2011) Éva Dóka et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Autocatalysis and Surface Catalysis in the Reduction of Imines by SmI2

(2011) Chintada Nageswara Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Regioselective Lithium Diisopropylamide-Mediated Ortholithiation of 1-Chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzene: Role of Autocatalysis, Lithium Chloride Catalysis, and Reversibility

(2011) Alexander C. Hoepker et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Autocatalysis for C–H Bond Activation by Ruthenium(II) Complexes in Catalytic Arylation of Functional Arenes

(2011) Emmanuel Ferrer Flegeau et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Minimal cell mimicry

(2011) Pier Luigi Luisi et al.   Nature Chemistry

Self-reproduction of supramolecular giant vesicles combined with the amplification of encapsulated DNA

(2011) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Nature Chemistry

When chiral product and catalyst are the same: discovery of asymmetric organoautocatalysis

(2010) Svetlana B. Tsogoeva   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Autocatalytic membrane-amplification on a pre-existing vesicular surface

(2010) Hiroshi Takahashi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Achievements and open questions in the self-reproduction of vesicles and synthetic minimal cells

(2010) Pasquale Stano et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Replication NAND gate with light as input and output

(2010) Manickasundaram Samiappan et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Light-Induced Peptide Replication Controls Logic Operations in Small Networks

(2010) Zehavit Dadon et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A concise summary of experimental facts about the Soai reaction

(2010) Timo Gehring et al.   CHIRALITY

Enantioselective Organocatalytic Mannich Reactions with Autocatalysts and Their Mimics

(2010) Xinbo Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Unusual Inverse Temperature Dependence on Reaction Rate in the Asymmetric Autocatalytic Alkylation of Pyrimidyl Aldehydes

(2010) Michela Quaranta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Simple Network of Synthetic Replicators Can Perform the Logical OR Operation

(2010) Victoria C. Allen et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

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

(2010) J. B. Lambert et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanosensitive Self-Replication Driven by Self-Organization

(2010) J. M. A. Carnall et al.   SCIENCE

Cell-sorting of robust self-reproducing giant vesicles tolerant to a highly ionic medium

(2010) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Soft Matter

The Origins of the RNA World

(2010) M. P. Robertson et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The Origin of Biological Homochirality

(2010) D. G. Blackmond   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

“If Pigs Could Fly” Chemistry: A Tutorial on the Principle of Microscopic Reversibility

(2009) Donna G. Blackmond   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-Replicating Amphiphilic β-Sheet Peptides

(2009) Boris Rubinov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamic Combinatorial Evolution within Self-Replicating Supramolecular Assemblies

(2009) Rémi Nguyen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Discrimination of cryptochirality in chiral isotactic polystyrene by asymmetric autocatalysis

(2009) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Asymmetric autocatalysis induced by meteoritic amino acids with hydrogen isotope chirality

(2009) Tsuneomi Kawasaki et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Synthetic autocatalysts show organocatalysis of other reactions

(2009) Seiji Kamioka et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

(2009) Ting F. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Sugar synthesis in a protocellular model leads to a cell signalling response in bacteria

(2009) Paul M. Gardner et al.   Nature Chemistry

Spontaneous Mirror Symmetry Breaking in the Aldol Reaction and its Potential Relevance in Prebiotic Chemistry

(2009) Michael Mauksch et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures

(2009) S. Kamioka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) T. Kawasaki et al.   SCIENCE

Unraveling the Mechanism of the Soai Asymmetric Autocatalytic Reaction by First-Principles Calculations: Induction and Amplification of Chirality by Self-Assembly of Hexamolecular Complexes

(2008) Luca Schiaffino et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Simple Synthetic Replicator Amplifies Itself from a Dynamic Reagent Pool

(2008) Jan W. Sadownik et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Road to Non-Enzymatic Molecular Networks

(2008) Zehavit Dadon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

An Examination of the Role of Autocatalytic Cycles in the Chemistry of Proposed Primordial Reactions

(2008) Donna G. Blackmond   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Autocatalytic oxidation of nitrobenzene using hydrogen peroxide and Fe(III)

(2008) Daniela Nichela et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Asymmetric autocatalytic Mannich reaction in the presence of water and its implication in prebiotic chemistry

(2008) Mohamed Amedjkouh et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Spontaneous Emergence of Homochirality via Coherently Coupled Antagonistic and Reversible Reaction Cycles

(2008) Michael Mauksch et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Challenging the concept of “recycling” as a mechanism for the evolution of homochirality in chemical reactions

(2008) Donna G. Blackmond   CHIRALITY

Making Molecules Make Themselves - the Chemistry of Artificial Replicators

(2008) Annick Vidonne et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Evolution and self-assembly of protocells

(2008) Ricard V. Solé   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Oscillatory Symmetry Breaking in the Soai Reaction

(2008) Károly Micskei et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Autocatalytic Oxidative Addition of PhBr to Pd(PtBu3)2via Pd(PtBu3)2(H)(Br)

(2008) Fabiola Barrios-Landeros et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Duplicating Amplification in a Dynamic Combinatorial Library

(2008) Shengguang Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Population Study of Sizes and Components of Self-Reproducing Giant Multilamellar Vesicles

(2008) Taro Toyota et al.   LANGMUIR

Manipulating Replication Processes within a Dynamic Covalent Framework

(2008) Vicente del Amo et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY