Possible chemical and physical scenarios towards biological homochirality

Q Sallembien, L Bouteiller, J Crassous… - Chemical Society …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The single chirality of biological molecules in terrestrial biology raises more questions than
certitudes about its origin. The emergence of biological homochirality (BH) and its …

Nonenzymatic metabolic reactions and life's origins

KB Muchowska, SJ Varma, J Moran - Chemical Reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Prebiotic chemistry aims to explain how the biochemistry of life as we know it came to be.
Most efforts in this area have focused on provisioning compounds of importance to life by …

Hydrophobic Trinuclear Copper Cluster‐Containing Organic Framework for Synergetic Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Amino Acids

N Li, C Pan, G Lu, H Pan, Y Han, K Wang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic synthesis of amino acids provides a promising green and efficient pathway
to manufacture the basic substances of life. Herein, reaction of 2, 5‐perfluroalkyl …

The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry

N Nogal, M Sanz-Sánchez, S Vela-Gallego… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The field of prebiotic chemistry has been dedicated over decades to finding abiotic routes
towards the molecular components of life. There is nowadays a handful of prebiotically …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative review of different adsorption techniques used in heavy metals removal in water

A Maftouh, O El Fatni, S El Hajjaji… - … Res. Appl. Chem, 2023‏ - researchgate.net
The rising shortage of water resources and the need to provide water in many regions like
Morocco around the world has been crucial and will become increasingly alarming in the …

Origin-of-life molecules in the atmosphere after big impacts on the early Earth

NF Wogan, DC Catling, KJ Zahnle… - The Planetary Science …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of life on Earth would benefit from a prebiotic atmosphere that produced nitriles,
like HCN, which enable ribonucleotide synthesis. However, geochemical evidence suggests …

Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways

S Pulletikurti, M Yadav, G Springsteen… - Nature Chemistry, 2022‏ - nature.com
The Strecker reaction of aldehydes is the pre-eminent pathway to explain the prebiotic
origins of α-amino acids. However, biology employs transamination of α-ketoacids to …

Illuminating life's origins: UV photochemistry in abiotic synthesis of biomolecules

NJ Green, J Xu, JD Sutherland - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Solar radiation is the principal source of energy available to Earth and has unmatched
potential for the synthesis of organic material from primordial molecular building blocks. As …

Prebiotic syntheses of noncanonical nucleosides and nucleotides

DM Fialho, TP Roche, NV Hud - Chemical reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The origin of nucleotides is a major question in origins-of-life research. Given the central
importance of RNA in biology and the influential RNA World hypothesis, a great deal of this …

On the aqueous origins of the condensation polymers of life

D Whitaker, MW Powner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024‏ - nature.com
Water is essential for life as we know it, but it has paradoxically been considered inimical to
the emergence of life. Proteins and nucleic acids have sustained evolution and life for …