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

Shielding from UV Photodamage: Implications for Surficial Origins of Life Chemistry on the Early Earth

(2021) Zoe R. Todd et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Chemistry of Abiotic Nucleotide Synthesis

(2020) Mahipal Yadav et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon

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

Review on the Ugi Multicomponent Reaction Mechanism and the Use of Fluorescent Derivatives as Functional Chromophores

(2020) Rafael O. Rocha et al.   ACS Omega

Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides

(2020) Jianfeng Xu et al.   NATURE

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

(2020) Ziwei Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotic phosphorylation of 2-thiouridine provides either nucleotides or DNA building blocks via photoreduction

(2019) Jianfeng Xu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Organometallic compounds as carriers of extraterrestrial cyanide in primitive meteorites

(2019) Karen E. Smith et al.   Nature Communications

Alkaline lake settings for concentrated prebiotic cyanide and the origin of life

(2019) J.D. Toner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sulfidic Anion Concentrations on Early Earth for Surficial Origins-of-Life Chemistry

(2018) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean–Archaean Earth

(2018) Zoe R. Todd et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

(2018) Jianfeng Xu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent

(2018) Angelica Mariani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Selective prebiotic conversion of pyrimidine and purine anhydronucleosides into Watson-Crick base-pairing arabino-furanosyl nucleosides in water

(2018) Samuel J. Roberts et al.   Nature Communications

The Origin of Chalcogen-Bonding Interactions

(2017) Dominic J. Pascoe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2017) John D. Sutherland   Nature Reviews Chemistry

High Energy Radical Chemistry Formation of HCN-rich Atmospheres on early Earth

(2017) Martin Ferus et al.   Scientific Reports

Influence of the UV Environment on the Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules

(2016) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization

(2016) Jianfeng Xu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Life in the light: nucleic acid photoproperties as a legacy of chemical evolution

(2016) Ashley A. Beckstead et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

(2015) John D. Sutherland   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

UV-Induced Charge Transfer States in DNA Promote Sequence Selective Self-Repair

(2015) Dominik Benjamin Bucher et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Replacing Uridine with 2-Thiouridine Enhances the Rate and Fidelity of Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension

(2015) Benjamin D. Heuberger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

Molecular Mechanism of Diaminomaleonitrile to Diaminofumaronitrile Photoisomerization: An Intermediate Step in the Prebiotic Formation of Purine Nucleobases

(2014) Rafał Szabla et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Conversion of Biosynthetic Precursors of RNA to Those of DNA by Photoredox Chemistry

(2014) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Photochemical Steps in the Prebiotic Synthesis of Purine Precursors from HCN

(2013) Eliot Boulanger et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of Aldehydic Ribonucleotide and Amino Acid Precursors by Photoredox Chemistry

(2013) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

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

Sulfite–sulfide–sulfate–carbonate equilibria with applications to Mars

(2013) G.M. Marion et al.   ICARUS

On the Origin of the Canonical Nucleobases: An Assessment of Selection Pressures across Chemical and Early Biological Evolution

(2013) Andro C. Rios et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

(2013) Frank R. Bowler et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials

(2011) Jason E. Hein et al.   Nature Chemistry

Phosphate-Mediated Interconversion of Ribo- and Arabino-Configured Prebiotic Nucleotide Intermediates

(2010) Matthew W. Powner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

High molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite revealed 40 years after its fall

(2010) P. Schmitt-Kopplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNA Before Proteins? Recent Discoveries in Nucleic Acid Catalysis Strengthen the Case

(2009) Aaron S. Burton et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Deciphering synonymous codons in the three domains of life: Co-evolution with specific tRNA modification enzymes

(2009) Henri Grosjean et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Systems chemistry on early Earth

(2009) Jack W. Szostak   NATURE

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Potentially Prebiotic Passerini-Type Reactions of Phosphates

(2008) John Sutherland et al.   SYNLETT