Chemical evolution from simple inorganic compounds to chiral peptides†
* Corresponding authors
a Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80-82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
E-mail:Thomas.Jakschitz@uibk.ac.at
Fax: +43 512 507 2714
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b Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Innrain 80-82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Abstract
Numerous experiments performed in the past 50 years have strongly changed ideas of how life could have emerged on the primitive Earth. This review deals with the synthesis of biomolecule precursors under the conditions prevailing on the primordial Earth, and describes possible scenarios for their combination and elongation to form peptides and proteins. Furthermore it proposes different answers to one of the big secrets of nature: why DNA-coded biohomochiral life emerged using amino acids in theirL-form?
- This article is part of the themed collection:Prebiotic chemistry
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- Tutorial Review
- Submitted
- 12 Mar 2012
- First published
- 25 Jun 2012
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Chemical evolution from simple inorganic compounds to chiral peptides
T. A. E. Jakschitz and B. M. Rode,Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 5484DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35073D
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