Astrochemistry during the formation of stars

JK Jørgensen, A Belloche… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

Prebiotic systems chemistry: new perspectives for the origins of life

K Ruiz-Mirazo, C Briones, A de la Escosura - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The origin of life is a fascinating, unresolved problem whose deciphering would have
important scientific, epistemological and social implications. Over time, philosophers and …

Discovery of the interstellar chiral molecule propylene oxide (CH3CHCH2O)

BA McGuire, PB Carroll, RA Loomis, IA Finneran… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Life on Earth relies on chiral molecules—that is, species not superimposable on their mirror
images. This manifests itself in the selection of a single molecular handedness, or …

Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites

AS Burton, JC Stern, JE Elsila, DP Glavin… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The discoveries of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin in many meteorites over the last 50
years have revolutionized the Astrobiology field. A variety of non-terrestrial amino acids …

Meteoritic amino acids: Diversity in compositions reflects parent body histories

JE Elsila, JC Aponte, DG Blackmond… - ACS Central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The analysis of amino acids in meteorites dates back over 50 years; however, it is only in
recent years that research has expanded beyond investigations of a narrow set of meteorite …

Deuterium fractionation: the Ariadne's thread from the pre-collapse phase to meteorites and comets today

C Ceccarelli, P Caselli, D Bockelée-Morvan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
The Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a condensation of matter inside a
molecular cloud. Trying to reconstruct what happened is the goal of this chapter. For that, we …

The origin and evolution of organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites and links to their parent bodies

DP Glavin, CMOD Alexander, JC Aponte… - Primitive meteorites and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The nature of organic matter in meteorites reveals information about early solar system
chemistry and the histories of parent bodies as recorded in the effects of physical and …

Large enantiomeric excesses in primitive meteorites and the diverse effects of water in cosmochemical evolution

S Pizzarello, DL Schrader… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Carbonaceous chondrites are meteoritic fragments of asteroids that avoided the geological
reprocessing of larger planets and allow laboratory probing of early solar-nebula materials …

Extraterrestrial amino acids and L‐enantiomeric excesses in the CM 2 carbonaceous chondrites Aguas Zarcas and Murchison

DP Glavin, JE Elsila, HL McLain… - … & Planetary Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The abundances, distributions, enantiomeric ratios, and carbon isotopic compositions of
amino acids in two fragments of the Aguas Zarcas CM 2 type carbonaceous chondrite fall …

One-pot synthesis of amino acid precursors with insoluble organic matter in planetesimals with aqueous activity

Y Kebukawa, QHS Chan, S Tachibana… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The exogenous delivery of organic molecules could have played an important role in the
emergence of life on the early Earth. Carbonaceous chondrites are known to contain …