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

AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap

(2016) Gerda Horneck et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Global Scale Scenario for Prebiotic Chemistry: Silica-Based Self-Assembled Mineral Structures and Formamide

(2016) Raffaele Saladino et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Origins of volatile elements (H, C, N, noble gases) on Earth and Mars in light of recent results from the ROSETTA cometary mission

(2016) Bernard Marty et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

Cover Picture: Sandmeyer-Type Trifluoromethylthiolation and Trifluoromethylselenolation of (Hetero)Aromatic Amines Catalyzed by Copper (Chem. Eur. J. 1/2016)

(2015) Christian Matheis et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

Hydrothermal Systems of Kamchatka are Models of the Prebiotic Environment

(2015) V. N. Kompanichenko et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Meteorite-catalyzed syntheses of nucleosides and of other prebiotic compounds from formamide under proton irradiation

(2015) Raffaele Saladino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early aqueous activity on the ordinary and carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies recorded by fayalite

(2015) Patricia M. Doyle et al.   Nature Communications

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

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Meteorites as Catalysts for Prebiotic Chemistry

(2013) Raffaele Saladino et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Mn–Cr ages of dolomites in CI chondrites and the Tagish Lake ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite

(2013) Wataru Fujiya et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2013) Ernesto Mauro   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Relationships between organics, water and early stages of aqueous alteration in the pristine CR3.0 chondrite MET 00426

(2013) Corentin Le Guillou et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Genetics first or metabolism first? The formamide clue

(2012) Raffaele Saladino et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites

(2012) Aaron S. Burton 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

Modelling peptide–metal dication interactions: formamide–Ca2+ reactions in the gas phase

(2012) Ane Eizaguirre et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets

(2012) C. M. O. Alexander et al.   SCIENCE

Formamide and the origin of life

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

Clues on the importance of comets in the origin and evolution of the atmospheres of Titan and Earth

(2011) Josep Ma Trigo-Rodriguez et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

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

The Organic Composition of Carbonaceous Meteorites: The Evolutionary Story Ahead of Biochemistry

(2010) S. Pizzarello et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Synthesis and Degradation of Nucleic Acid Components by Formamide and Iron Sulfur Minerals

(2008) Raffaele Saladino et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Record of Low-Temperature Alteration in Asteroids

(2008) M. E. Zolensky et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry