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

Nucleobases and Prebiotic Molecules in Organic Residues Produced from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in NH3 and H2O+NH3 Ices

(2012) Michel Nuevo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Genetics first or metabolism first? The formamide clue

(2012) Raffaele Saladino et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Prebiotic chemistry in eutectic solutions at the water–ice matrix

(2012) César Menor-Salván et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Out of fuzzy chemistry: from prebiotic chemistry to metabolic networks

(2012) Juli Peretó   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

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

The mystery of atmospheric oxygen

(2012) James Kasting   Nature Geoscience

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

Prebiotic Significance of Extraterrestrial Ice Photochemistry: Detection of Hydantoin in Organic Residues

(2011) Pierre de Marcellus et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Can cytosine, thymine and uracil be formed in interstellar regions? A theoretical study

(2011) Tianfang Wang et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

The Effects of Borate Minerals on the Synthesis of Nucleic Acid Bases, Amino Acids and Biogenic Carboxylic Acids from Formamide

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

New Insights in the Removal of the Hydantoins, Oxidation Product of Pyrimidines, via the Base Excision and Nucleotide Incision Repair Pathways

(2011) Modesto Redrejo-Rodríguez et al.   PLoS One

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

Facile synthesis of hydantoins and thiohydantoins in aqueous solution

(2011) Graziano Baccolini et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Oxidation Reactions of Cytosine DNA Components by Hydroxyl Radical and One-Electron Oxidants in Aerated Aqueous Solutions

(2010) J. Richard Wagner et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Mechanism for the abiotic synthesis of uracil via UV-induced oxidation of pyrimidine in pure H2O ices under astrophysical conditions

(2010) Partha P. Bera et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Which Way to Life?

(2010) Antonio Lazcano   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Synthesis of Pyrimidines and Triazines in Ice: Implications for the Prebiotic Chemistry of Nucleobases

(2009) César Menor-Salván et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

CH4/N2/H2-spark hydrophobic tholins: A systematic approach to the characterisation of tholins. Part II

(2009) Marta Ruiz-Bermejo et al.   ICARUS

On the State of Water Ice on Saturn’s Moon Titan and Implications to Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System†

(2009) Weijun Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

High-pressure photodissociation of water as a tool for hydrogen synthesis and fundamental chemistry

(2009) Matteo Ceppatelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Acetylene Polymers in Ice: A Prebiotic Scenario

(2008) César Menor-Salván et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite

(2008) Zita Martins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Oligomers formed through in-cloud methylglyoxal reactions: Chemical composition, properties, and mechanisms investigated by ultra-high resolution FT-ICR mass spectrometry

(2007) K.E. Altieri et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT