Evaporite Borate-Containing Mineral Ensembles Make Phosphate Available and Regiospecifically Phosphorylate Ribonucleosides: Borate as a Multifaceted Problem Solver in Prebiotic Chemistry

Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent

(2016) Bradley Burcar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Thermal effects of impact bombardments on Noachian Mars

(2016) Oleg Abramov et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2016) S. Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

(2015) Jay G. Forsythe et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Abiotic Regioselective Phosphorylation of Adenosine with Borate in Formamide

(2015) Yoshihiro Furukawa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Tourmaline B-isotopes as tracers of fluid sources in silicified Palaeoarchaean oceanic crust of the Mendon Formation, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

(2015) Katja Farber et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Boron isotopes in tourmaline from the ca. 3.7–3.8Ga Isua supracrustal belt, Greenland: Sources for boron in Eoarchean continental crust and seawater

(2015) Edward S. Grew et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Occurrence of Tourmaline in Metasedimentary Rocks of the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Greenland: Implications for Ribose Stabilization in Hadean Marine Sediments

(2015) Shinpei Mishima et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Nucleoside phosphorylation by the mineral schreibersite

(2015) Maheen Gull et al.   Scientific Reports

Borophosphates and silicophosphates as plausible contributors to the emergence of life

(2014) José A.L. da Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

The “Strong” RNA World Hypothesis: Fifty Years Old

(2013) Marc Neveu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Reduced, reused and recycled: Detrital zircons define a maximum age for the Eoarchean (ca. 3750–3780Ma) Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec (Canada)

(2013) Nicole L. Cates et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence for biogenic graphite in early Archaean Isua metasedimentary rocks

(2013) Yoko Ohtomo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Selective Stabilization of Ribose by Borate

(2013) Yoshihiro Furukawa et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Boron Enrichment in Martian Clay

(2013) James D. Stephenson et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Raffaele Saladino et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Synthesis of Carbohydrates in Mineral-Guided Prebiotic Cycles

(2011) Hyo-Joong Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Borate Minerals and Origin of the RNA World

(2011) Edward S. Grew et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Serpentinite and the dawn of life

(2011) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2008) M VANKRANENDONK et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The prebiotic geochemistry of formaldehyde

(2008) H. James Cleaves II   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH