Prebiotic routes to nucleosides: A quantum chemical insight into the energetics of the multistep reaction pathways

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 847-854

  Šponer, Judit E ^a   Šponer, Jiří ^a   Fuentes Cabrera, Miguel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

glycosylation; nucleosides; origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ROLE; CLASSICAL PATHWAY; CLASSICAL REACTIONS; ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS; LIVING ORGANISMS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MULTISTEP REACTIONS; NUCLEOBASES; NUCLEOSIDES; ORIGINS OF LIFE; PHOSPHATE ANIONS; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY; PREBIOTIC CONDITIONS; PREBIOTICS; QUANTUM CHEMICAL; RNA WORLD; SYNTHETIC ROUTES;

BIOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; GLYCOSYLATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOMOLECULES;

2 AMINOOXAZOLE; 2-AMINOOXAZOLE; ANION; NUCLEOSIDE; OXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; RIBONUCLEOSIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GLYCOSYLATION; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIONS; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEOSIDES; OXAZOLES; PHOSPHATES; PREBIOTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RIBONUCLEOSIDES; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78651444806     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002057     Document Type: Article

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