Cited by 251Origins and Evolution of LifePaleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeochemistry and Elemental Analysis

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 60 of the 61 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Aqueous Corrosion of Phosphide Minerals from Iron Meteorites: A Highly Reactive Source of Prebiotic Phosphorus on the Surface of the Early Earth

Pasek, Matthew A., Lauretta, Dante S.·2005·Astrobiology

DOI 10.1089/ast.2005.5.515

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

We present the results of an experimental study of aqueous corrosion of Fe-phosphide under conditions relevant to the early Earth. The results strongly suggest that iron meteorites were an important source of reactive phosphorus (P), a requirement for the formation of P-based life. We further demonstrate that iron meteorites were an abundant source of phosphide minerals early in Earth history. Phosphide corrosion was studied in five different solutions: deionized water, deionized water buffered with sodium bicarbonate, deionized water with dissolved magnesium and calcium chlorides, deionized water containing ethanol and acetic acid, and deionized water containing the chlorides, ethanol, and acetic acid. Experiments were performed in the presence of both air and pure Ar gas to evaluate the effect of atmospheric chemistry. Phosphide corrosion in deionized water results in a metastable mixture of mixed-valence, P-bearing ions including pyrophosphate and triphosphate, key components for metabolism in modern life. In a pH-buffered solution of NaHCO(3), the condensed and reduced species diphosphonate is an abundant corrosion product. Corrosion in ethanol- and acetic acid-containing solutions yields additional P-bearing organic molecules, including acetyl phosphonate and a cyclic triphosphorus molecule. Phosphonate is a major corrosion product of all experiments and is the only P-bearing molecule that persists in solutions with high concentrations of magnesium and calcium chlorides, which suggests that phosphonate may have been a primitive oceanic source of P. The stability and reactivity of phosphonate and hypophosphite in solution were investigated to elucidate reaction mechanisms and the role of mineral catalysts on P-solution chemistry. Phosphonate oxidation is rapid in the presence of Fe metal but negligible in the presence of magnetite and in the control sample. The rate of hypophosphite oxidation is independent of reaction substrate.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1089/ast.2005.5.515

Cites

60 of 60 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Origin of life: The RNA world
Gilbert, W. (1986) · Nature · doi:10.1038/319618a0 · Cited by 2,721
The RNA moiety of ribonuclease P is the catalytic subunit of the enzyme
Guerrier-Takada, C., Gardiner, K., Marsh, T., Pace, N., & Altman, S. (1983) · Cell · doi:10.1016/0092-8674(83)90117-4 · Cited by 2,684
Standard Solar Composition
Grevesse, N., & Sauval, A. (1998) · Space Science Reviews · doi:10.1023/a:1005161325181 · Cited by 2,412
Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of Tetrahymena
Kruger, K., Grabowski, P. J., Zaug, A. J., Sands, J., Gottschling, D. E., & Cech, T. R. (1982) · Cell · doi:10.1016/0092-8674(82)90414-7 · Cited by 2,331
The origin of the genetic code
Crick, F. H. C. (1968) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(68)90392-6 · Cited by 2,320
Why Nature Chose Phosphates
Westheimer, F. H. (1987) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.2434996 · Cited by 1,711
Organic Compound Synthesis on the Primitive Earth
Miller, S. L., & Urey, H. C. (1959) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.130.3370.245 · Cited by 1,403
Endogenous production, exogenous delivery and impact-shock synthesis of organic molecules: an inventory for the origins of life
Chyba, C., & Sagan, C. (1992) · Nature · doi:10.1038/355125a0 · Cited by 1,321
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
Phosphorus and its compounds
Wazer, V., & John, R. (1958) · Interscience Publishers eBooks · Cited by 1,065
The [ITAL]Forbidden[/ITAL] Abundance of Oxygen in the Sun
Prieto, C. A., Lambert, D. L., & Asplund, M. (2001) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/322874 · Cited by 1,016
Evolution of the genetic apparatus
Orgel, L. E. (1968) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(68)90393-8 · Cited by 996
A Direct Measurement of the Terrestrial Mass Accretion Rate of Cosmic Dust
Love, S. G., & Brownlee, D. E. (1993) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.262.5133.550 · Cited by 882
In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of tetrahymena: Involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence
Cech, T. R., Zaug, A. J., & Grabowski, P. J. (1981) · Cell · doi:10.1016/0092-8674(81)90390-1 · Cited by 879
Global environment: water, air, and geochemical cycles
(2012) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.50-0895 · Cited by 835
Phosphonates as analogues of natural phosphates
Engel, R. R. (1977) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/cr60307a003 · Cited by 748
A Reappraisal of the Solar Photospheric C/O Ratio
Prieto, C. A., Lambert, D. L., & Asplund, M. (2002) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/342095 · Cited by 429
Isolation of 2-Aminoethane Phosphonic Acid from Rumen Protozoa
HORIGUCHI, M., & KANDATSTU, M. (1959) · Nature · doi:10.1038/184901b0 · Cited by 427
Volcanic production of polyphosphates and its relevance to prebiotic evolution
Yamagata, Y., Watanabe, H., Saitoh, M., & Namba, T. (1991) · Nature · doi:10.1038/352516a0 · Cited by 371 · cited 1×
“Magmas evolve P as P4O10, but this compound rapidly hydrolyzes in water to form insoluble phosphates, which would precipitate to the ocean floor (Yamagata et al., 1991; Keefe and Miller, 1995).”
Background
The Global Environment
Vig, N. J., & Axelrod, R. S. (1999) · Energy Exploration & Exploitation · doi:10.1177/014459879901700519 · Cited by 264
The Time-Dependent Intense Bombardment of the Primordial Earth/Moon System
HARTMANN, W. K., Ryder, G., Luke Dones, B., & Grinspoon, D. H. (2000) · University of Arizona Press eBooks · doi:10.2307/j.ctv1v7zdrp.31 · Cited by 264
Organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites, planetary satellites, asteroids and comets
Cronin, J. R., Pizzarello, S., & Cruikshank, D. P. (1988) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 237
The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites
RAMDOHR, P. (1972) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783112651025 · Cited by 212
Alkyl phosphonic acids and sulfonic acids in the Murchison meteorite
Cooper, G. W., Onwo, W. M., & Cronin, J. R. (1992) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(92)90023-c · Cited by 204
Statistical reconciliation of the elemental and molecular biomass composition of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Lange, H. C., & Heijnen, J. J. (2001) · Biotechnology and Bioengineering · doi:10.1002/bit.10054 · Cited by 198
Soil and Litter Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Cade‐Menun, B. J., Liu, C. W., Nunlist, R., & McColl, J. G. (2002) · Journal of Environmental Quality · doi:10.2134/jeq2002.0457 · Cited by 142
The Composition and Early Evolution of Earth
Kargel, J. S., & Lewis, J. S. (1993) · Icarus · doi:10.1006/icar.1993.1108 · Cited by 136
Are polyphosphates or phosphate esters prebiotic reagents?
Keefe, A., & Miller, S. L. (2004) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/bf00173147 · Cited by 126
A plausibly prebiotic synthesis of phosphonic acids
de Graaf, R. M., Visscher, J., & Schwartz, A. W. (1995) · Nature · doi:10.1038/378474a0 · Cited by 116
Polyphosphate and trimetaphosphate formation under potentially prebiotic conditions
Österberg, R., & Orgel, L. E. (1972) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/bf01660243 · Cited by 115
The mineralogy of iron meteorites
Buchwald, V. F. (1977) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · doi:10.1098/rsta.1977.0127 · Cited by 109
Phosphorus Speciation in Water and Sediments
Spivakov, B. Y., Maryutina, T. A., & Muntau, H. (1999) · Pure and Applied Chemistry · doi:10.1351/pac199971112161 · Cited by 109
The flux of meteorites to the Earth and weathering in hot desert ordinary chondrite finds
Bland, P. A., Berry, F. J., Smith, T. B., Skinner, S. J., & Pillinger, C. T. (1996) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(96)00125-1 · Cited by 95
Metal/silicate equilibrium in the early Earth—New constraints from the volatile moderately siderophile elements Ga, Cu, P, and Sn
Kevin Righter, B., & DRAKE, M. J. (2000) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(00)00466-x · Cited by 91
Struvite and Prebiotic Phosphorylation
Handschuh, G. J., & Orgel, L. E. (1973) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.179.4072.483 · Cited by 80
Phosphorylation on the Primitive Earth: Phosphorylation of Adenosine with Linear Polyphosphate Salts in Aqueous Solution
Schwartz, A. W., & Ponnamperuma, C. (1968) · Nature · doi:10.1038/218443a0 · Cited by 78
Phosphorylation on the Primitive Earth: Phosphorylation by way of Inorganic Phosphate as a Potential Prebiotic Process
Rabinowitz, J., Chang, S., & Ponnamperuma, C. (1968) · Nature · doi:10.1038/218442a0 · Cited by 68
Mineral Induced Phosphorylation of Glycolate Ion – a Metaphor in Chemical Evolution
Kolb, V. M., Zhang, S., Xu, Y., & Arrhenius, G. (1997) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1023/a:1006582526535 · Cited by 64
Phosphorylation of Adenosine with Trimetaphosphate Under Simulated Prebiotic Conditions
Cheng, C., Fan, C., Wan, R., Tong, C.-Y., Miao, Z., Chen, J., & Zhao, Y. (2002) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1023/a:1016513114799 · Cited by 64
Reduction and Activation of Phosphate on the Primitive Earth
de Graaf, R. M., & Schwartz, A. W. (2000) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1023/a:1006700512902 · Cited by 54
Formation of pyrophosphate on hydroxyapatite with thioesters as condensing agents
Weber, A. L. (1982) · Biosystems · doi:10.1016/0303-2647(82)90002-8 · Cited by 54
Primary Sources of Phosphorus and Phosphates in Chemical Evolution
Maciá*, E., Hernández, M. V., & Oró, J. (1997) · Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere · doi:10.1023/a:1006523226472 · Cited by 54
Biomimetic phosphoryl transfer catalysed by iron(II)-mineral precipitates
de Zwart, I., Meade, S. J., & Pratt, A. J. (2004) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2004.01.028 · Cited by 52
The Formation of Phosphides in Iron Meteorites
Doan, A. S., & Goldstein, J. I. (1969) · Astrophysics and space science library · doi:10.1007/978-94-010-3411-1_62 · Cited by 46
pH-dependence of 31P-NMR spectroscopic parameters of monofluorophosphate, phosphate, hypophosphate, phosphonate, phosphinate and their dimers and trimers
Yoza, N., Ueda, N., & Nakashima, S. (1994) · Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry · doi:10.1007/bf00325563 · Cited by 34
Potentially prebiotic syntheses of condensed phosphates
Keefe, A. D., & Miller, S. L. (1996) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/bf01808157 · Cited by 33
prebiotic phosphorus chemistry reconsidered
Schwartz, A. W. (1997) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1023/a:1006536817887 · Cited by 32
On the possible role of crystals in the origins of life
Burton, F. G., Lohrmann, R., & Orgel, L. E. (1974) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/bf01796559 · Cited by 30
Adenine nucleotide translocation in yeast mitochondria. Effect of inhibitors of mitochondrial biogenesis on the ADP translocase
Lauquin, G. J. ‐., & Vignais, P. V. (1973) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · doi:10.1016/0005-2728(73)90074-1 · Cited by 28
The Sources of Phosphorus on the Primitive Earth--An Inquiry
Schwartz, A. W. (1972) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-2019-7_11 · Cited by 23
The Rates of Hydrolysis of Thymidyl-3′, 5′-Thymidine-H-Phosphonate: The Possible Role of Nucleic Acids Linked by Diesters of Phosphorous Acid in the Origins of Life
Peyser, J. R., & Ferris, J. P. (2001) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1023/a:1011871726600 · Cited by 23
Geochemical Cycles of Bio‐essential Elements on the Early Earth and Their Relationships to Origin of Life
Kakegawa, T., Noda, M., & Nannri, H. (2002) · Resource Geology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00121.x · Cited by 23
On the possible role of crystals in the origins of life. (III) The phosphorylation of adenosine to AMP by apatite
Neuman, M. W., Neuman, W. F., & Lane, K. (1970) · Biosystems · doi:10.1016/0303-2647(70)90006-7 · Cited by 22
Synthesis of hypophosphate by ultraviolet irradiation of phosphite solutions
Schwartz, A. W., & van der Veen, M. (1973) · Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Letters · doi:10.1016/0020-1650(73)80083-2 · Cited by 14
Pyrophosphate formation from phospho(enol)pyruvate adsorbed onto precipitated orthophosphate: A model for prebiotic catalysis of transphosphorylations
Hermes-Lima, M., & Vieyra, A. (1989) · Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere · doi:10.1007/bf01808148 · Cited by 14
Kanonerovite, MnNa3P3O1012H2O, first triphosphate mineral (Kazennitsa pegmatite, Middle Urals, Russia)
Popova, V. I., Popov, V. A., Sokolova, E. V., Ferraris, G., & Chukanov, N. V. (2002) · Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Monatshefte · doi:10.1127/0028-3649/2002/2002-0117 · Cited by 11
Zur Darstellung von Cyclophosphaten, Cyclophosphatophosphonaten, Diphosphonaten und Diphosphiten in Harnstoffschmelzen
Schülke, U., Kayser, R., & Neumann, P. (1989) · Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie · doi:10.1002/zaac.19895760131 · Cited by 10
Hydrolysis of ammonium pyro-, tripoly-, and tetrapolyphosphate at 25.deg. and 50.deg.
Williard, J. W., Farr, T. D., & Hatfield, J. D. (1975) · Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data · doi:10.1021/je60066a012 · Cited by 5
On the mechanism of stimulation on photosynthesis by pyrophosphate
Forti, G. C., & Rosa, L. (1974) · Plant Science Letters · doi:10.1016/0304-4211(74)90064-9 · Cited by 5
ChemInform Abstract: Preparation of Cyclophosphates, Cyclophosphatophosphonates, Diphosphonates, and Diphosphites in Urea Melts.
Schuelke, U., KAYSER, R., & NEUMANN, P. (1990) · ChemInform · doi:10.1002/chin.199008224 · Cited by 1

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 61 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 5

Forti G., 1974, Lett., 2, 95
Grevesse N., 1998, Rev., 85, 161
Gulick A., 1955, Am. Sci., 43, 479
Neuman M.W., 1970, Curr. Mod. Biol., 3, 253
Platts S.N., 2002, Orig. Life Evol. Biosph., 5, 409

Sorted by citations

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
Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism
Patel, B. H., Percivalle, C., Ritson, D. J., Duffy, C. D., & Sutherland, J. D. (2015) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/nchem.2202 · Cited by 949
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
The Origin of Life—Out of the Blue
Sutherland, J. D. (2016) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.201506585 · Cited by 401
Nanostructured metal phosphides: from controllable synthesis to sustainable catalysis
Li, S., Qi, M., Tang, Z., & Xu, Y. (2021) · Chemical Society Reviews · doi:10.1039/d1cs00323b · Cited by 325

See all 251

Authors: Pasek, M. A., & Lauretta, D. S.
Affiliations: University of Arizona (US)
ORCID: Pasek, Matthew A.
Lauretta, Dante S.
Venue: Astrobiology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2005-08
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Pages: 515-535
ISSN: 1531-1074 (ISSN-L)
1557-8070
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2005.5.515
OpenAlex: W2092970453
Cited by: 251
References: 61
Citations by year: 2026: 19 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 2
FWCI: 4.27
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Astrobiology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Topics: Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords: aqueous corrosion, iron meteorites, phosphonates, hypophosphite, pyrophosphate, triphosphate, diphosphonates, early Earth, origin of life, atmospheric chemistry, mineral catalysis
MeSH terms: Origin of Life, Corrosion, Iron, Minerals, Models, Chemical, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Organophosphorus Compounds, Phosphates, Phosphorus, Sodium Chloride, Solutions, Water, Sodium Bicarbonate, Earth, Planet, Exobiology, Meteoroids

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Aqueous Corrosion of Phosphide Minerals from Iron Meteorites: A Highly Reactive Source of Prebiotic Phosphorus on the Surface of the Early Earth

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks