Carbonyl Migration in Uronates Affords a Potential Prebiotic Pathway for Pentose Production

• Ruiqin Yi,
• Mike Mojica,
• Albert C. Fahrenbach,
• H. James Cleaves,
• Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy,
• Charles L. Liotta

Affiliations

Ruiqin Yi

Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Mike Mojica

School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Albert C. Fahrenbach

School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology and the UNSW RNA Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

H. James Cleaves

Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, Washington, United States

Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States

Charles L. Liotta

School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States