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| Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism BH Patel, C Percivalle, DJ Ritson, CD Duffy, JD Sutherland Nature chemistry 7 (4), 301-307, 2015 | 979 | 2015 |
| The origin of life—out of the blue JD Sutherland Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 (1), 104-121, 2016 | 432 | 2016 |
| Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry D Ritson, JD Sutherland Nature chemistry 4 (11), 895-899, 2012 | 280 | 2012 |
| Opinion: Studies on the origin of life—the end of the beginning JD Sutherland Nature Reviews Chemistry 1 (2), 0012, 2017 | 234 | 2017 |
| Towards an evolutionary theory of the origin of life based on kinetics and thermodynamics R Pascal, A Pross, JD Sutherland Open biology 3 (11), 130156, 2013 | 226 | 2013 |
| Chemoselective multicomponent one-pot assembly of purine precursors in water MW Powner, JD Sutherland, JW Szostak Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (46), 16677-16688, 2010 | 204 | 2010 |
| The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon DD Sasselov, JP Grotzinger, JD Sutherland Science Advances 6 (6), eaax3419, 2020 | 189 | 2020 |
| The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets PB Rimmer, J Xu, SJ Thompson, E Gillen, JD Sutherland, D Queloz Science advances 4 (8), eaar3302, 2018 | 179 | 2018 |
| Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the presence of favipiravir-RTP K Naydenova, KW Muir, LF Wu, Z Zhang, F Coscia, MJ Peet, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7), e2021946118, 2021 | 176 | 2021 |
| UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters C Bonfio, L Valer, S Scintilla, S Shah, DJ Evans, L Jin, JW Szostak, ... Nature Chemistry 9 (12), 1229-1234, 2017 | 164 | 2017 |
| Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides J Xu, V Chmela, NJ Green, DA Russell, MJ Janicki, RW Góra, R Szabla, ... Nature 582 (7810), 60-66, 2020 | 157 | 2020 |
| Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi MW Powner, JD Sutherland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 …, 2011 | 153 | 2011 |
| A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization J Xu, M Tsanakopoulou, CJ Magnani, R Szabla, JE Šponer, J Šponer, ... Nature chemistry 9 (4), 303-309, 2017 | 149 | 2017 |
| Synthesis of aldehydic ribonucleotide and amino acid precursors by photoredox chemistry DJ Ritson, JD Sutherland Angewandte Chemie (international Ed. In English) 52 (22), 5845, 2013 | 136 | 2013 |
| Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation FR Bowler, CKW Chan, CD Duffy, B Gerland, S Islam, MW Powner, ... Nature Chemistry 5 (5), 383-389, 2013 | 127 | 2013 |
| Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide J Xu, DJ Ritson, S Ranjan, ZR Todd, DD Sasselov, JD Sutherland Chemical Communications 54 (44), 5566-5569, 2018 | 124 | 2018 |
| Direct assembly of nucleoside precursors from two-and three-carbon units C Anastasi, MA Crowe, MW Powner, JD Sutherland Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 45 (37), 6176-6179, 2006 | 113 | 2006 |
| A light-releasable potentially prebiotic nucleotide activating agent A Mariani, DA Russell, T Javelle, JD Sutherland Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (28), 8657-8661, 2018 | 108 | 2018 |
| High energy radical chemistry formation of HCN-rich atmospheres on early Earth M Ferus, P Kubelík, A Knížek, A Pastorek, J Sutherland, S Civiš Scientific reports 7 (1), 6275, 2017 | 106 | 2017 |
