Abiotic sugars in (162173) Ryugu and the primitive CI carbonaceous chondrite OrgueilOPEN ACCESS
Cornelia Meinert, Vanessa Leyva, Manuel Robert, Raphaël Pepino, Jana Bocková, preprint, 19 June 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “The unequal distribution of prebiotic organic compounds in meteorites—where amino acids and nucleobases are commonly detected but…
Organic matter and biomarkers: Why are samples required?OPEN ACCESS
Mark A. Sephton, Andrew Steele, Frances Westall, and Florence Schubotz PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404256121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The search for evidence of past prebiotic or biotic activity on Mars will…
The evolution of organic material on Asteroid 162173 Ryugu and its delivery to EarthOPEN ACCESS
H. G. Changela, Y. Kebukawa, L. Petera, M. Ferus, E. Chatzitheodoridis, L. Nejdl, R. Nebel, V. Protiva, P. Krepelka, J. Moravcova, R. Holbova, Z. Hlavenkova, T. Samoril, J. C. Bridges, S. Yamashita, Y. Takahashi, T….
Prebiotic Vitamin B3 Synthesis in Carbonaceous PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Mijin Lee, Dmitry A. Semenov, Thomas K. Henning Accepted for publication in ChemPlusChem. PDF (OPEN ACCESS)Supporting Information “Aqueous chemistry within carbonaceous planetesimals is promising for synthesizing prebiotic organic matter essential to all life….
Meteorite Parent Body Aqueous Alteration Simulations of Interstellar Residue AnalogsOPEN ACCESS
Danna Qasim, Hannah L. McLain, José C. Aponte, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, and Christopher K. Materese ACS Earth Space Chem. 2023, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXXPublication Date: January 9, 2023 LINKSupporting information (PDF, OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Some families of…
Shock experiments with an l-alanine solution and implications for the cometary delivery of amino acids and dimers with enantiomeric excesses to the early Earth
Koichi Mimura, Riku Okada Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 4 February 2022 LINK “Shock experiments on an aqueous l-alanine solution were undertaken to examine the significance of cometary impacts in supplying prebiotic compounds to the…
Chiroptical activity of hydroxycarboxylic acids with implications for the origin of biological homochiralityOPEN ACCESS
Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Uwe J. Meierhenrich, Søren V. Hoffmann & Cornelia Meinert Communications Chemistry, Volume 4, Article number: 86 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Circularly polarised light (CPL) interacting with interstellar organic…
The Role of Ultrahigh Resolution Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FT-MS) in Astrobiology-Related Research: Analysis of Meteorites and TholinsOPEN ACCESS
Árpád Somogyi, Roland Thissen, Francois-Régis Orthous-Daunay, Véronique Vuitton Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2016, 17(4), 439; doi:10.3390/ijms17040439 PDF (open access) abstract “It is an important but also a challenging analytical problem to understand the chemical composition…