| Ester‐mediated amide bond formation driven by wet–dry cycles: A possible path to polypeptides on the prebiotic earth JG Forsythe, SS Yu, I Mamajanov, MA Grover, R Krishnamurthy, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54 (34), 9871-9875, 2015 | 357 | 2015 |
| DNA and RNA in anhydrous media: Duplex, triplex, and G‐quadruplex secondary structures in a deep eutectic solvent I Mamajanov, AE Engelhart, HD Bean, NV Hud Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (36), 6310-6314, 2010 | 243 | 2010 |
| Ester formation and hydrolysis during wet–dry cycles: generation of far-from-equilibrium polymers in a model prebiotic reaction I Mamajanov, PJ MacDonald, J Ying, DM Duncanson, GR Dowdy, ... Macromolecules 47 (4), 1334-1343, 2014 | 129 | 2014 |
| Spontaneous prebiotic formation of a β-ribofuranoside that self-assembles with a complementary heterocycle MC Chen, BJ Cafferty, I Mamajanov, I Gállego, J Khanam, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (15), 5640-5646, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Human telomere sequence DNA in water-free and high-viscosity solvents: G-quadruplex folding governed by Kramers rate theory FM Lannan, I Mamajanov, NV Hud Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (37), 15324-15330, 2012 | 100 | 2012 |
| Bulk measurements of messy chemistries are needed for a theory of the origins of life N Guttenberg, N Virgo, K Chandru, C Scharf, I Mamajanov Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
| Simple prebiotic synthesis of high diversity dynamic combinatorial polyester libraries K Chandru, N Guttenberg, C Giri, Y Hongo, C Butch, I Mamajanov, ... Communications Chemistry 1 (1), 30, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| HCN polymers characterized by solid state NMR: Chains and sheets formed in the neat liquid I Mamajanov, J Herzfeld The Journal of chemical physics 130 (13), 2009 | 52 | 2009 |
| Polyesters as a model system for building primitive biologies from non-biological prebiotic chemistry K Chandru, I Mamajanov, HJ Cleaves, TZ Jia Life 10 (1), 6, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Molecular structure of humin and melanoidin via solid state NMR J Herzfeld, D Rand, Y Matsuki, E Daviso, M Mak-Jurkauskas, ... The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115 (19), 5741-5745, 2011 | 48 | 2011 |
| HCN polymers characterized by SSNMR: Solid state reaction of crystalline tetramer (diaminomaleonitrile) I Mamajanov, J Herzfeld The Journal of chemical physics 130 (13), 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Comprehensive investigation of the energetics of pyrimidine nucleoside formation in a model prebiotic reaction Y Sheng, HD Bean, I Mamajanov, NV Hud, J Leszczynski Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (44), 16088-16095, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| Prebiotic oligomerization and self-assembly of structurally diverse xenobiological monomers K Chandru, TZ Jia, I Mamajanov, N Bapat, HJ Cleaves Scientific reports 10 (1), 17560, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Protoenzymes: The case of hyperbranched polyesters I Mamajanov, GD Cody Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Wet-dry Cycling Delays the Gelation of Hyperbranched Polyesters: Implications to the Origin of Life I Mamajanov Preprints, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Prebiotic alternatives to proteins: structure and function of hyperbranched polyesters I Mamajanov, MP Callahan, JP Dworkin, GD Cody Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 45, 123-137, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Connecting primitive phase separation to biotechnology, synthetic biology, and engineering TZ Jia, PH Wang, T Niwa, I Mamajanov Journal of biosciences 46 (3), 79, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| Incorporation of basic α-hydroxy acid residues into primitive polyester microdroplets for RNA segregation TZ Jia, NV Bapat, A Verma, I Mamajanov, HJ Cleaves, K Chandru Biomacromolecules 22 (4), 1484-1493, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Origin of species before origin of life: the role of speciation in chemical evolution TZ Jia, M Caudan, I Mamajanov Life 11 (2), 154, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Aspartate transformation at 200 C with brucite [Mg (OH) 2], NH3, and H2: Implications for prebiotic molecules in hydrothermal systems CF Estrada, I Mamajanov, J Hao, DA Sverjensky, GD Cody, RM Hazen Chemical Geology 457, 162-172, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
Nicholas V. HudRegents' Professor and Julius Brown Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia TechVerified email at chemistry.gatech.edu
