Prebiotic synthesis initiated in formaldehyde by laser plasma simulating high-velocity impacts

0508019 - ÚFCH JH 2020 RIV FR eng J - Journal Article
Ferus, Martin - Pietrucci, F. - Saitta, A. M. - Ivanek, Ondřej - Knížek, Antonín - Kubelík, Petr - Krůs, Miroslav - Juha, Libor - Dudžák, Roman - Dostál, Jan - Pastorek, Adam - Petera, L. - Hrncirova, J. - Saeidfirozeh, Homa - Shestivska, Violetta - Šponer, Jiří - Šponer, Judit E. - Rimmer, P. - Civiš, Svatopluk - Cassone, Giuseppe
Prebiotic synthesis initiated in formaldehyde by laser plasma simulating high-velocity impacts.
Astronomy & Astrophysics. Roč. 626, JUN 2019 (2019), č. článku A52. ISSN 0004-6361. E-ISSN 1432-0746
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA17-05076S
Institutional support: RVO:61388955 ; RVO:68081707 ; RVO:61389021
Keywords : organic-molecules * infrared-spectra * building-blocks * amino-acids * basis-sets * formamide * origin * chemistry
OECD category: Physical chemistry; Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics) (UFP-V); Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science) (BFU-R)
Impact factor: 5.636, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access

Context It is well known that hydrogen cyanide and formamide can universally be considered as key molecules in prebiotic synthesis. Despite the fact that formamide has been detected in interplanetary and interstellar environments, other prebiotic species are far more abundant, including, for example, formaldehyde. However, several results indicate that formamide can play the role of important intermediate as well as that of a feedstock molecule in chemical abiogenesis. Diverse recently proposed scenarios of the origins of the first biopolymers show that liquid formamide environments could have been crucial for the formation of nucleobases, nucleosides, and for phosphorylation reactions, which lead to nucleotides.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0298975