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Evaporite Borate-Containing Mineral Ensembles Make Phosphate Available and Regiospecifically Phosphorylate Ribonucleosides: Borate as a Multifaceted Problem Solver in Prebiotic Chemistry

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Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent

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Prebiotic synthesis of phosphoenol pyruvate by α-phosphorylation-controlled triose glycolysis

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The effect of leaving groups on binding and reactivity in enzyme-free copying of DNA and RNA

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Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water

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Biological Relevance of Lysophospholipids and Green Solutions for Their Synthesis

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Exploring the sequence space for (tri-)peptide self-assembly to design and discover new hydrogels

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Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

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Competition between model protocells driven by an encapsulated catalyst

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Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

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Biological Phosphoryl-Transfer Reactions: Understanding Mechanism and Catalysis

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Biomimetic peptide bond formation in water with aminoacyl phosphate esters

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An optimal degree of physical and chemical heterogeneity for the origin of life?

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Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

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The Search for a Potentially Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleotides via Arabinose-3-phosphate and Its Cyanamide Derivative

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