Studies in prebiotic synthesis

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions.

Powner, M. W., Gerland, B., & Sutherland, J. D. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08013 · Cited by 1,383 · see citing works

Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of the RNA world.

Leslie E., O. (2004) · Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · doi:10.1080/10409230490460765 · Cited by 1,124 · see citing works

The origins of the RNA world

Robertson, M. P., & Joyce, G. F. (2012) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a003608 · Cited by 556 · see citing works

Origins of building blocks of life: A review

Kitadai, N., & Maruyama, S. (2018) · Geoscience Frontiers · doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2017.07.007 · Cited by 464 · see citing works

The Origin of Life—Out of the Blue

Sutherland, J. D. (2016) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.201506585 · Cited by 401 · see citing works

Protocells and RNA Self-Replication

Joyce, G. F., & Szostak, J. W. (2018) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a034801 · Cited by 308 · see citing works

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

Benner, S. A., Kim, H.-J., & Carrigan, M. A. (2012) · Accounts of Chemical Research · doi:10.1021/ar200332w · Cited by 281 · see citing works

Studies in prebiotic synthesis

Fuller, W. D., Sanchez, R. A., & Orgel, L. E. (1972) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(72)90383-x · Cited by 280 · see citing works

Prebiotic chemistry and nucleic acid replication

Orgel, L. E., & Lohrmann, R. (1974) · Accounts of Chemical Research · doi:10.1021/ar50083a002 · Cited by 247 · see citing works

The Origin of RNA and “My Grandfather’s Axe”

Hud, N. V., Cafferty, B. J., Krishnamurthy, R., & Williams, L. D. (2013) · Chemistry & Biology · doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.03.012 · Cited by 210 · see citing works

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

Islam, S., & Powner, M. W. (2017) · Chem · doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2017.03.001 · Cited by 154 · see citing works

Semipermeable lipid bilayers exhibit diastereoselectivity favoring ribose

Sacerdote, M. G., & Szostak, J. W. (2005) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0408440102 · Cited by 147 · see citing works

Prebiotic chemistry: a new <i>modus operandi</i>

Powner, M. W., & Sutherland, J. D. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0134 · Cited by 144 · see citing works

A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization

Xu, J., Tsanakopoulou, M., Magnani, C. J., Szabla, R., Šponer, J. E., Šponer, J., Góra, R. W., & Sutherland, J. D. (2017) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/nchem.2664 · Cited by 133 · see citing works

Selective Derivatization and Sequestration of Ribose from a Prebiotic Mix

Springsteen, G., & Joyce, G. F. (2004) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja0483692 · Cited by 122 · see citing works

Prebiotic Stereoselective Synthesis of Purine and Noncanonical Pyrimidine Nucleotide from Nucleobases and Phosphorylated Carbohydrates

Kim, H.-J., & Benner, S. A. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1710778114 · Cited by 114 · see citing works

Primitive Genetic Polymers

Engelhart, A. E., & Hud, N. V. (2010) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002196 · Cited by 101 · see citing works

Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetic surface

Ozturk, S. F., Liu, Z., Sutherland, J. D., & Sasselov, D. D. (2023) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.adg8274 · Cited by 98 · see citing works

Spontaneous Prebiotic Formation of a β-Ribofuranoside That Self-Assembles with a Complementary Heterocycle

Chen, M. C., Cafferty, B. J., Mamajanov, I., Gállego, I., Khanam, J., Krishnamurthy, R., & Hud, N. V. (2014) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja410124v · Cited by 94 · see citing works

Direct Assembly of Nucleoside Precursors from Two‐ and Three‐Carbon Units

Anastasi, C., Crowe, M. A., Powner, M. W., & Sutherland, J. D. (2006) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.200601267 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

The Emergence of Life

Camprubí, E., de Leeuw, J. W., House, C. H., Raulin, F., Russell, M. J., Spang, A., Tirumalai, M. R., & Westall, F. (2019) · Space Science Reviews · doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0624-8 · Cited by 84 · see citing works

Prebiotic Chemistry: What We Know, What We Don’t

Cleaves, H. J. (2012) · Evolution: Education and Outreach · doi:10.1007/s12052-012-0443-9 · Cited by 75 · see citing works

A Continuous Reaction Network that Produces RNA Precursors

Yi, R., Tran, Q. P., Ali, S., Yoda, I., Adam, Z. R., Cleaves, H. J., & Fahrenbach, A. C. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1922139117 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Prebiotic Reaction Networks in Water

Tran, Q. P., Adam, Z. R., & Fahrenbach, A. C. (2020) · Life · doi:10.3390/life10120352 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Radiolytic Synthesis of Cyanogen Chloride, Cyanamide and Simple Sugar Precursors

Yi, R., Hongo, Y., Yoda, I., Adam, Z. R., & Fahrenbach, A. C. (2018) · ChemistrySelect · doi:10.1002/slct.201802242 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Lower temperature optimum of a smaller, fragmented triphosphorylation ribozyme

Akoopie, A., & Müller, U. F. (2016) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c6cp00672h · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Radicals in Prebiotic Chemistry

Lim, R. W. J., & Fahrenbach, A. C. (2020) · Pure and Applied Chemistry · doi:10.1515/pac-2020-0805 · Cited by 8 · see citing works