By paraphrasing one of Kipling's most amazing short stories (How the Leopard Got His
Spots), this article could be entitled “How Sugars Became Homochiral”. Obviously, we have …

Reactions in interstellar ices are shown to be capable of producing key prebiotic molecules
without energetic radiation that are necessary for the origins of life. When present in …

Chemists have been learning and mimicking enzymatic catalysis in various aspects of
organic synthesis. One of the major goals is to develop versatile catalysts that inherit the …

Aldehydes are ubiquitous in star-forming regions and carbonaceous chondrites, serving as
essential intermediates in metabolic pathways and molecular mass growth processes to vital …

Pyruvic acid represents a key molecule in prebiotic chemistry to form metabolites and amino
acids. Without liquid water on the early Earth, endogenous formation of pyruvic acid is …

Formyl radical (HCO•) and hydroxycarbonyl radical (HOCO•) are versatile building blocks in
the formation of biorelevant complex organic molecules (COMs) in interstellar medium …

Ion transport is vital to all modern lifeforms, but how early cells could have accomplished this
without complex proteins that are used by modern cells has remained elusive. Here, we …

Geological conditions play a significant role in prebiotic/abiotic organic chemistry, especially
when reactive minerals are present. Previous studies of the prebiotic synthesis of amino …

Context. Despite the identification of the smallest sugar molecule, glycolaldehyde (GA), in
the interstellar medium (ISM), its mechanism of formation in the ISM is still not fully …

Iron minerals are highly reactive drivers of abiotic/prebiotic organic chemistry, and in the
presence of ammonia (NH 3/NH 4+) or other reduced nitrogen (N) compounds, have been …