Studies in prebiotic synthesis

Mechanism of ε15 conversion studied with bacteriophage mutants

Bray, D., & Robbins, P. W. (1967) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/s0022-2836(67)80037-8 · Cited by 280

Cyanoacetylene in Prebiotic Synthesis

Sanchez, R. A., Ferris, J. P., & Orgel, L. E. (1966) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.154.3750.784 · Cited by 270

Prebiotic Synthesis of Polypeptides by Heterogeneous Polycondensation of Amino-acid Adenylates

Paecht‐Horowitz, M., BERGER, J., & Katchalsky, A. (1970) · Nature · doi:10.1038/228636a0 · Cited by 266

Studies in prebiotic synthesis

Ferris, J. P., Sanchez, R. A., & Orgel, L. E. (1968) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(68)90314-8 · Cited by 253

Studies in prebiotic synthesis

Sanchez, R. A., & Orgel, L. E. (1970) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(70)90320-7 · Cited by 250

Urea-Inorganic Phosphate Mixtures as Prebiotic Phosphorylating Agents

Lohrmann, R., & Orgel, L. E. (1971) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.171.3970.490 · Cited by 245

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Kimball (1962) · doi:10.1016/0003-9861(62)90412-5 · Cited by 230

Synthesis of Complex Organic Compounds from Simple Precursors: Formation of Amino-Acids, Amino-Acid Polymers, Fatty Acids and Purines from Ammonium Cyanide

LOWE, C. U., REES, M. W., & MARKHAM, R. (1963) · Nature · doi:10.1038/199219a0 · Cited by 208

Synthesis of Adenosine Triphosphate Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions

Ponnamperuma, C., Sagan, C., & Mariner, R. (1963) · Nature · doi:10.1038/199222a0 · Cited by 172

An Unusual Photochemical Rearrangement in the Synthesis of Adenine from Hydrogen Cyanide1

Ferris, J. P., & Orgel, L. E. (1966) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja00957a050 · Cited by 160

The Catalytic Hydrogenation of Pyrimidine Nucleosides and Nucleotides and the Isolation of their Ribose and Respective Ribose Phosphates1,2

Cohn, W. E., & Doherty, D. G. (1956) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01593a063 · Cited by 123

Studies in Prebiotic Synthesis. I. Aminomalononitrile and 4-Amino-5-cyanoimidazole1,2

Ferris, J. P., & Orgel, L. E. (1966) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja00968a028 · Cited by 121

Separation of Nucleoside Mixtures on Dowex-1 (OH-)1

Dekker, C. A. (1965) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01095a073 · Cited by 113

Condensed Pyrimidine Systems. XXII. N-Methylpurines

Elion, G. B. (1962) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jo01054a045 · Cited by 107

Zur Kenntniss des Propargylaldehyds und des Phenylpropargylaldehyds

Claisen, L. (1903) · Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft · doi:10.1002/cber.190303603168 · Cited by 97

Synthesis of Uracil under Conditions of a Thermal Model of Prebiological Chemistry

Fox, S. W., & Harada, K. (1961) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.133.3468.1923 · Cited by 91

Transphosphorylation from Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates by Apatite Crystals

Krane, S. M., & Glimcher, M. J. (1962) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)60262-5 · Cited by 89

Primordial Organic Chemistry. I. Compounds Resulting from Electron Irradiation of C14H4

Palm, C., & Calvin, M. (1962) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja00870a024 · Cited by 83

A NEW SYNTHESIS OF THE PURINES ADENINE, HYPOXANTHINE, XANTHINE, AND ISOGUANINE

Shaw, E. N. (1950) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)56434-6 · Cited by 73

Ribose Phosphates: Production from Nucleotides, Ion-Exchange Separation and Characterization1

Khym, J. X., Doherty, D. G., & Cohn, W. E. (1954) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01650a075 · Cited by 69

182. Experiments on the synthesis of purine nucleosides. Part XII. The configuration at the glycosidic centre in natural and synthetic pyrimidine and purine nucleosides

Davoll, J., Lythgoe, B., & Todd, A. R. (1946) · Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) · doi:10.1039/jr9460000833 · Cited by 49

Substituted 2-Sulfonamido-5-aminopyridines. II

Caldwell, W. T., Tyson, F. T., & Lauer, L. (1944) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01237a018 · Cited by 48

The Synthesis of 9-α-D-Ribofuranosyladenine

Wright, R. S., Tener, G. M., & Khorana, H. G. (1958) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01541a057 · Cited by 47

Optical rotatory dispersion of the anomeric nucleosides and nucleotides

Nishimura, T., Shimizu, B., & Iwai, I. (1968) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis · doi:10.1016/0005-2787(68)90076-2 · Cited by 32

191. The decomposition of inorganic cyanates in water

Kemp, I., & Kohnstam, G. (1956) · Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) · doi:10.1039/jr9560000900 · Cited by 31

Synthesis of adenine and 4,5-dicyanoimidazole from hydrogen cyanide in liquid ammonia

Yamada, Y., Kumashiro, I., & Takenishi, T. (1968) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jo01266a036 · Cited by 29

THE STRUCTURE AND GRIGNARD REACTION OF THE β-AMINOCROTONONITRILE

Conn, J. J., & Taurinš, A. (1953) · Canadian Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1139/v53-156 · Cited by 28

Synthesis of 1-(β-D-Ribofuranosyl) urea and Related Compounds.

Ukita, T., Hamada, A., & Yoshida, M. (1964) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin · doi:10.1248/cpb.12.454 · Cited by 24

ARYLAMINE-N-GLYCOSIDES. PART I. ARYLAMINE-N-D-RIBOPYRANOSIDES AND N-D-RIBOFURANOSIDES

BERGER, L., & LEE, J. (1946) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jo01171a011 · Cited by 23

α-Cytidylsäure aus Heferibonucleinsäure

Gassen, H. G., & Witzel, H. (1965) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis · doi:10.1016/0005-2787(65)90489-2 · Cited by 19

On the structure of neoguanosine

Shapiro, R., & Gordon, C. N. (1964) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1016/0006-291x(64)90138-x · Cited by 15

Purines, pyrimidines, and glyoxalines. Part I. New syntheses of glyoxalines and pyrimidines

Shaw, G. (1955) · Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) · doi:10.1039/jr9550001834 · Cited by 15

Separation of imidazoles by thin-layer chromatography

GRIMMETT, M. R., & Richards, E. C. M. (1965) · Journal of Chromatography A · doi:10.1016/s0021-9673(01)80426-x · Cited by 13

A Convenient Synthesis of 4(5)-Amino-5(4)-imidazolecarboxamide Hydrochloride

Montgomery, J., Hewson, K., Struck, R. F., & Shealy, Y. F. (1959) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jo01084a630 · Cited by 10

Reactions of Nitriles. I. Synthesis of Propiolonitrile from Acetylene and Hydrocyanic Acid

Krebaum, L. J. (1966) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jo01350a054 · Cited by 9

THE REACTIONS OF ACTIVE NITROGEN WITH ACETYLENE, METHYLACETYLENE, AND DIMETHYLACETYLENE

Schavo, A., & Winkler, C. A. (1959) · Canadian Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1139/v59-090 · Cited by 9

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

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

The antiquity of RNA-based evolution.

Joyce, G. F. (2002) · Nature · doi:10.1038/418214a · Cited by 1,070

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

Ruiz-Mirazo, K., Briones, C., & de la Escosura, A. (2014) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/cr2004844 · Cited by 930

RNA evolution and the origins of life

Joyce, G. F. (1989) · Nature · doi:10.1038/338217a0 · Cited by 658

Formation of a β-Pyrimidine Nucleoside by a Free Pyrimidine Base and Ribose in a Plausible Prebiotic Reaction

Bean, H. D., Sheng, Y., Collins, J. P., Anet, F. A. L., Leszczyński, J., & Hud, N. V. (2007) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja072781a · Cited by 86

Nucleoside Synthesis under Potentially Prebiotic Conditions

REID, C., Orgel, L. E., & Ponnamperuma, C. (1967) · Nature · doi:10.1038/216936a0 · Cited by 27

Prebiotic Photochemical Coproduction of Purine Ribo- and Deoxyribonucleosides

Xu, J., Green, N. J., Russell, D. A., Liu, Z., & Sutherland, J. D. (2021) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.1c07403 · Cited by 38

Formation of nucleoside 5′-phosphoramidates under potentially prebiological conditions

Lohrmann, R. (1977) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/bf01751807 · Cited by 85

A New Synthesis of Purine Nucleosides. The Synthesis of Adenosine, Guanosine and 2,6-Diamino-9-β-D-ribofuranosylpurine1

Davoll, J., & Lowy, B. A. (1951) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja01148a071 · Cited by 164