The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

Omne Vivum Ex Vivo … Omne? How to Feed an Inanimate Evolvable Chemical System so as to Let it Self-evolve into Increased Complexity and Life-like Behaviour

(2015) Peter Strazewski   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

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

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

Catalysts from synthetic genetic polymers

(2014) Alexander I. Taylor et al.   NATURE

On the track of the elusive Sudbury impact: geochemical evidence for a chondrite or comet bolide

(2014) Joseph A. Petrus et al.   TERRA NOVA

Paleomineralogy of the Hadean Eon: A preliminary species list

(2013) R. M. Hazen   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Synthesis of Aldehydic Ribonucleotide and Amino Acid Precursors by Photoredox Chemistry

(2013) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

(2013) Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Hydrogen Cyanide Production due to Mid-Size Impacts in a Redox-Neutral N2-Rich Atmosphere

(2013) Kosuke Kurosawa et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Towards an evolutionary theory of the origin of life based on kinetics and thermodynamics

(2013) R. Pascal et al.   Open Biology

Asphalt, Water, and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Ribose, Ribonucleosides, and RNA

(2012) Steven A. Benner et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

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

The Chemical Composition of Comets—Emerging Taxonomies and Natal Heritage

(2011) Michael J. Mumma et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Synthesis of Carbohydrates in Mineral-Guided Prebiotic Cycles

(2011) Hyo-Joong Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi

(2011) M. W. Powner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phosphate-Mediated Interconversion of Ribo- and Arabino-Configured Prebiotic Nucleotide Intermediates

(2010) Matthew W. Powner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Prebiotic Routes to Nucleosides: A Quantum Chemical Insight into the Energetics of the Multistep Reaction Pathways

(2010) Judit E. Šponer et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Planetary Organic Chemistry and the Origins of Biomolecules

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

Evolution of Protein Synthesis from an RNA World

(2010) H. F. Noller   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

Ribonucleotides

(2010) J. D. Sutherland   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA

(2009) Konstantin Bokov et al.   NATURE

The prebiotic geochemistry of formaldehyde

(2008) H. James Cleaves II   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH