Water–Air Interfaces as Environments to Address the Water Paradox in Prebiotic Chemistry: A Physical Chemistry Perspective

Chemistry and Photochemistry of Pyruvic Acid at the Air–Water Interface

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Molecular Fingerprints of Hydrophobicity at Aqueous Interfaces from Theory and Vibrational Spectroscopies

(2021) Simone Pezzotti et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Illuminating Life’s Origins: UV Photochemistry in Abiotic Synthesis of Biomolecules

(2021) Nicholas J. Green et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Prebiotic Peptides: Molecular Hubs in the Origin of Life

(2020) Moran Frenkel-Pinter et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon

(2020) Dimitar D. Sasselov et al.   Science Advances

Accelerated Reaction Kinetics in Microdroplets: Overview and Recent Developments

(2020) Zhenwei Wei et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Simple model for the electric field and spatial distribution of ions in a microdroplet

(2020) Christian F. Chamberlayne et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Catalytic activity of water molecules in gas‐phase glycine dimerization

(2020) Ariel G. Gale et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Sequence-Defined Informational Oligomers

(2020) Kyle R. Strom et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Photoinduced Oxidation Reactions at the Air–Water Interface

(2020) Josep M. Anglada et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids

(2020) R. Trent Stubbs et al.   Nature Chemistry

Micrometer-Sized Water Droplets Induce Spontaneous Reduction

(2019) Jae Kyoo Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

(2019) Tony Z. Jia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous generation of hydrogen peroxide from aqueous microdroplets

(2019) Jae Kyoo Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gibbs Free Energy and Reaction Rate Acceleration in and on Microdroplets

(2019) Adrian F Tuck   Entropy

On the Rise: Experimental and Computational Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy Studies of Pyruvic Acid and Its Surface-Active Oligomer Species at the Air–Water Interface

(2019) Brittany P. Gordon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Prebiotic Phosphorylation of Uridine using Diamidophosphate in Aerosols

(2019) A. D. Castañeda et al.   Scientific Reports

Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

(2018) Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Let there be light: stability of palmitic acid monolayers at the air/salt water interface in the presence and absence of simulated solar light and a photosensitizer

(2018) Mona Shrestha et al.   Chemical Science

Experimentally quantifying anion polarizability at the air/water interface

(2018) Yujin Tong et al.   Nature Communications

Environmental Processing of Lipids Driven by Aqueous Photochemistry of α-Keto Acids

(2018) Rebecca J. Rapf et al.   ACS Central Science

Does interfacial photochemistry play a role in the photolysis of pyruvic acid in water?

(2018) Yao Fu et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Progress in synthesizing protocells

(2018) O Duhan Toparlak et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Studying Chemistry in Micro-compartments by Separating Droplet Generation from Ionization

(2018) Michael I. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY

Photochemical Synthesis of Oligomeric Amphiphiles from Alkyl Oxoacids in Aqueous Environments

(2017) Rebecca J. Rapf et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

(2017) Claudia Bonfio et al.   Nature Chemistry

Abiotic production of sugar phosphates and uridine ribonucleoside in aqueous microdroplets

(2017) Inho Nam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

(2017) Saidul Islam et al.   Chem

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Gas Phase Hydration of Methylglyoxal

(2017) Jay A. Kroll et al.   ACS Earth and Space 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

The Astrobiology Primer v2.0

(2016) Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Influence of the UV Environment on the Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules

(2016) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Water at Interfaces

(2016) Olle Björneholm et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Protons and Hydroxide Ions in Aqueous Systems

(2016) Noam Agmon et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Mechanistic Insights on the Photosensitized Chemistry of a Fatty Acid at the Air/Water Interface

(2016) Liselotte Tinel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Sunlight as an energetic driver in the synthesis of molecules necessary for life

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Atmospheric photochemistry at a fatty acid-coated air-water interface

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Abiotic Regioselective Phosphorylation of Adenosine with Borate in Formamide

(2015) Yoshihiro Furukawa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Heterogeneous Photochemistry in the Atmosphere

(2015) Christian George et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Photosensitized production of functionalized and unsaturated organic compounds at the air-sea interface

(2015) Raluca Ciuraru et al.   Scientific Reports

Photochemical Kinetics of Pyruvic Acid in Aqueous Solution

(2014) Allison E. Reed Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Photoinitiated Synthesis of Self-Assembled Vesicles

(2014) Elizabeth C. Griffith et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enhanced Chemical Synthesis at Soft Interfaces: A Universal Reaction-Adsorption Mechanism in Microcompartments

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Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

(2013) Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Two sides of the acid–base story

(2013) Richard J. Saykally   Nature Chemistry

Photochemistry of aqueous pyruvic acid

(2013) E. C. Griffith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions in the Emergence of Complexity in Simple Chemical Systems

(2012) Elizabeth C. Griffith et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES

(2012) Mark W. Claire et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Ionization state of l-Phenylalanine at the Air–Water Interface

(2012) Elizabeth C. Griffith et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organic molecules on the surface of water droplets – an energetic perspective

(2012) Jochen S. Hub et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

In situ observation of peptide bond formation at the water-air interface

(2012) E. C. Griffith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi

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Chemistry and Photochemistry of Mineral Dust Aerosol

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