Question 1: Commentary referring to the statement "the origin of life can be traced back to the origin of kinetic control" and the question "do you agree with this statement; and how would you envisage the prebiotic evolutionary bridge between thermodynamic and kinetic control?" Stated in section 1.1

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 309-314

  Eschenmoser, Albert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Metabolic versus genetic autocatalytic cycles in prebiotic chemistry; Thermodynamic versus kinetic reaction control

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; ORIGIN OF LIFE; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; GENETICS; KINETICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; KINETICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34548047007     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-007-9102-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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