Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks

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Peptide ligation by chemoselective aminonitrile coupling in water

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Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

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A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent

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Tuning the reactivity of nitriles using Cu(ii) catalysis – potentially prebiotic activation of nucleotides

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Common and Potentially Prebiotic Origin for Precursors of Nucleotide Synthesis and Activation

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Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions

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Opinion: Studies on the origin of life — the end of the beginning

(2017) John D. Sutherland   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Mixed Anhydride Intermediates in the Reaction of 5(4H )-Oxazolones with Phosphate Esters and Nucleotides

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The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

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

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The Activation of Free Dipeptides Promoted by Strong Activating Agents in Water Does not Yield Diketopiperazines

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Progress Toward Synthetic Cells

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Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

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5(4H)-Oxazolones as Intermediates in the Carbodiimide- and Cyanamide-Promoted Peptide Activations in Aqueous Solution

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A Unified Mechanism for Abiotic Adenine and Purine Synthesis in Formamide

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A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials

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Adsorption and Polymerization of Amino Acids on Mineral Surfaces: A Review

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