Nature Communications (May 2018)

Mimicking the surface and prebiotic chemistry of early Earth using flow chemistry

  • Dougal J. Ritson,
  • Claudio Battilocchio,
  • Steven V. Ley,
  • John D. Sutherland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04147-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There is still much debate on early Earth geochemical conditions affecting the chemistry of simple synthons that originated life. Here, the authors report an uninterrupted multistep synthetic route to 2-aminooxazole by means of flow chemistry equipment, mimicking a plausible early Earth (geo)chemical scenario.