Dass, AV, Hickman-Lewis, K, Brack, A et al. (2 more authors) (2016) Stochastic Prebiotic Chemistry within Realistic Geological Systems. ChemistrySelect, 1 (15). pp. 4906-4926. ISSN 2365-6549
Abstract
This review introduces its readers to a ‘stochastic approach’ to origins of life research, from the viewpoints of both prebiotic chemistry and geology. The idea of a “primordial soup” has been subject to extensive criticism from thermodynamic, biochemical and geochemical perspectives, yet recent advancements have made clearer the plausibility of this theory. Herein, we review the theoretical and experimental approaches which have previously been explored, among these modelling, laboratory-confined and geologically motivated experimentation. Of these, we consider organo-mineral interactions, uniting aspects of prebiotic chemistry and geology, to be an especially promising way forward. However, we aim here to advance current approaches by advocating a methodology involving chemical systems and their stochastic reactivity on heterogeneous geological surfaces. This models the origins of life as a continuity of chemical reactions in an analogue to the early Earth (Hadean) environment.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: A. V. Dass, K. Hickman-Lewis, A. Brack, T. P. Kee, F. Westall, ChemistrySelect 2016, 1, 4906, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201600829. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Hadean; mineral surfaces; Origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; stochastic chemistry; systems chemistry |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemistry (Leeds) > Inorganic Chemistry (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2016 11:55 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2017 04:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201600829 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/slct.201600829 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:107200 |