Silica Metal Oxide Vesicles Catalyze Comprehensive Prebiotic Chemistry

Formation of nucleobases in a Miller–Urey reducing atmosphere

(2017) Martin Ferus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomimetic mineral self-organization from silica-rich spring waters

(2017) Juan Manuel García-Ruiz et al.   Science Advances

A Global Scale Scenario for Prebiotic Chemistry: Silica-Based Self-Assembled Mineral Structures and Formamide

(2016) Raffaele Saladino et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

From Chemical Gardens to Fuel Cells: Generation of Electrical Potential and Current Across Self-Assembling Iron Mineral Membranes

(2015) Laura M. Barge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Current Advances in Prebiotic Chemistry Under Space Conditions

(2015) Eleonora Carota et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Shedding light on the formation of the pre-biotic molecule formamide with ASAI

(2015) A. López-Sepulcre et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

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

Complex organic molecules in comets C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy): detection of ethylene glycol and formamide

(2014) N. Biver et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

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

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

(2013) Gilles R. Adande et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A New Route for the Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleobases and Hydantoins in Water/Ice Solutions Involving the Photochemistry of Acetylene

(2013) César Menor-Salván 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

Formation of ring-opened and rearranged products of guanine: Mechanisms and biological significance

(2012) N.R. Jena et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

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 H2 and CH4 by weathering of olivine at temperatures between 30 and 70°C

(2011) Anna Neubeck et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Guanine, Adenine, and Hypoxanthine Production in UV-Irradiated Formamide Solutions: Relaxation of the Requirements for Prebiotic Purine Nucleobase Formation

(2010) Hannah L. Barks  et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM