ArticleChemical science2023
Towards a prebiotic chemoton - nucleotide precursor synthesis driven by the autocatalytic formose reaction.
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- Strands in a Web: Free Energies of Select Prebiotic Reactions with Sugars, Nitriles and Azoles.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- WAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Comprehensive Mapping of Compositional Dynamics in the Formose Reaction Network.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Protocell Dynamics: Modelling Growth and Division of Lipid Vesicles Driven by an Autocatalytic Reaction.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Autocatalytic assembly of a chimeric aminoacyl-RNA synthetase ribozyme.Science advances · 2025Article
- Reciprocating thermochemical mediator of pre-biotic polymer decomposition on mineral surfaces.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Do-Nothing Prebiotic Chemistry: Chemical Kinetics as a Window into Prebiotic Plausibility.Accounts of chemical research · 2025Article
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Abstract
The formose reaction is often cited as a prebiotic source of sugars and remains one of the most plausible forms of autocatalysis on the early Earth. Herein, we investigated how cyanamide and 2-aminooxazole, molecules proposed to be present on early Earth and precursors for nonenzymatic ribonucleotide synthesis, mediate the formose reaction using HPLC, LC-MS and
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