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Chemical Biology
Prebiotic Chemistry and Life's Origin
Edited by
Michele Fiore
Michele Fiore
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
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Hardback ISBN:
978-1-78801-749-7
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-479-8
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-83916-480-4
Series:
Chemical Biology
No. of Pages:
462
Publication date:
29 Jun 2022
Book Chapter
CHAPTER 10: The Handy Formamide Model System for Prebiotic Chemistry
By
R. Saladino
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R. Saladino
Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche DEB, Università della Tuscia
01100 Viterbo
Italy
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B. M. Bizzarri
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B. M. Bizzarri
Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche DEB, Università della Tuscia
01100 Viterbo
Italy
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E. Di Mauro
E. Di Mauro
Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche DEB, Università della Tuscia
01100 Viterbo
Italy
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Published:29 Jun 2022
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Series: Chemical Biology
Page range:
293 - 316
Citation
R. Saladino, B. M. Bizzarri, and E. Di Mauro, in Prebiotic Chemistry and Life's Origin, ed. M. Fiore, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, pp. 293-316.
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Even if the Origin of Life cannot be discovered, prebiotic models can limit the number of possible scenarios. In this context, formamide chemistry furnishes a general and robust probe to test a top-down approach to LUCA, the Last Common Universal Ancestor.
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