DOI: 10.1039/d3sc03185c ISSN:
Towards a prebiotic chemoton – nucleotide precursor synthesis driven by the autocatalytic formose reaction
Quoc Phuong Tran, Ruiqin Yi, Albert C. Fahrenbach- General Chemistry
The synthesis of nucleotide precursors fuelled by the formose reaction, one of the most plausible forms of autocatalysis on the early Earth, is demonstrated, and the relevance to the chemoton model is discussed.