First Evidence on the Role of Heavy Ion Irradiation of Meteorites and Formamide in the Origin of Biomolecules

Meteorite-catalyzed synthesis of nucleosides and other prebiotic compounds

(2015) Martin Ferus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

(2014) Martin Ferus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asteroids and the origin of life—two steps of chemical evolution on the surface of these objects

(2014) M. B. Simakov   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Observations of Interstellar Formamide: Availability of a Prebiotic Precursor in the Galactic Habitable Zone

(2013) Gilles R. Adande et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Meteorites as Catalysts for Prebiotic Chemistry

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

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

(2013) Ernesto Mauro   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Natural versus Artificial Creation of Base Pairs in DNA: Origin of Nucleobases from the Perspectives of Unnatural Base Pair Studies

(2012) Ichiro Hirao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

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

FORMATION OF PEPTIDE BONDS IN SPACE: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF FORMAMIDE AND ACETAMIDE IN Sgr B2(N)

(2011) D. T. Halfen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Catalytic effects of Murchison Material: Prebiotic Synthesis and Degradation of RNA Precursors

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Formamide and the origin of life

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

Detection and formation scenario of citric acid, pyruvic acid, and other possible metabolism precursors in carbonaceous meteorites

(2011) G. Cooper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Photochirogenesis: Photochemical Models on the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality

(2010) Cornelia Meinert et al.   Symmetry-Basel

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

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