Prebiotic selection and assembly of proteinogenic amino acids and natural nucleotides from complex mixtures

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

(2016) S. Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Ribose and related sugars from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogs

(2016) C. Meinert et al.   SCIENCE

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

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

On the Emergence of RNA

(2015) Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

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

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

Evaluating the Plausibility of Prebiotic Multistage Syntheses

(2013) Alan W. Schwartz   ASTROBIOLOGY

Detection of Potential TNA and RNA Nucleoside Precursors in a Prebiotic Mixture by Pure Shift Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy

(2013) Saidul Islam et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Multicomponent Assembly of Proposed DNA Precursors in Water

(2012) Matthew W. Powner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exploratory Experiments on the Chemistry of the “Glyoxylate Scenario”: Formation of Ketosugars from Dihydroxyfumarate

(2012) Vasudeva Naidu Sagi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Etiology of Potentially Primordial Biomolecular Structures: From Vitamin B12 to the Nucleic Acids and an Inquiry into the Chemistry of Life’s Origin: A Retrospective

(2011) Albert Eschenmoser   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

Expanding Roles for Diverse Physical Phenomena During the Origin of Life

(2010) Itay Budin et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Chemoselective Multicomponent One-Pot Assembly of Purine Precursors in Water

(2010) Matthew W. Powner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

L-amino acids catalyze the formation of an excess of D-glyceraldehyde, and thus of other D sugars, under credible prebiotic conditions

(2010) R. Breslow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of the RNA World

(2010) M. P. Robertson et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Setting the Stage: The History, Chemistry, and Geobiology behind RNA

(2010) S. A. Benner et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

(2008) A. P. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE