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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
卷 62, 期 8, 页码 2372-2379出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2017.07.017
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Formamide; Origin of life; Nucleic bases; Carboxylic acids; Sugars; Geothermal fields; Phlegrean Fields
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- MIUR Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita della Ricerca (Pisa, Italy) [2015F59J3R]
- Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy) [2015F59J3R]
Understanding the formation of biogenic molecules in abiotic conditions is a prerequisite in the origin-of-life studies. Determining the conditions allowing an efficient one-pot synthesis of the largest possible panel of biogenic compounds may shed light on the plausible scenario in which the processes that kick-started life might have occurred. We report a set of experiments describing the syntheses taking place from formamide (NH2CHO) and thermal water in the presence of meteorites, in the hydrothermal physical-chemical environment of the Phlegrean Fields. The results show that meteorites catalyse the synthesis of a large panel of organic compounds of biological relevance, including carboxylic acids, nucleobases, amino acids and sugars. The simplicity of the system (a one-carbon molecule as starting compound, a volcanic hydrothermal environment, meteorites as catalysts) hints to a possible extension of the results to similar environments present in other planetary bodies and space objects. (C) 2018 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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