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    Chemistry & Biodiversity: Volume 4, Issue 4

    539-822
    April 2007
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Contents

Contents: C&B 4/2007

  • First Published: 19 April 2007

Editorial

On Chemistry Leading to Life's Origin

Piet Herdewijn,  M. Volkan Kιsakürek, 
  • Pages: 539-540
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Research Articles

Reactions of the HCN-Tetramer with Aldehydes†

Klemens Koch,  W. Bernd Schweizer,  Albert Eschenmoser, 
  • Pages: 541-553
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On a Hypothetical Generational Relationship between HCN and Constituents of the Reductive Citric Acid Cycle†

Albert Eschenmoser, 
  • Pages: 554-573
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Reviews

Chemistry and Selection

Christian de Duve, 
  • Pages: 574-583
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On the Chemistry and Evolution of the Pioneer Organism

Günter Wächtershäuser, 
  • Pages: 584-602
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Chemical Aspects of Synthetic Biology

Pier Luigi Luisi, 
  • Pages: 603-621
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Errors and Alternatives in Prebiotic Replication and Catalysis

Jacques Ninio, 
  • Pages: 622-632
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Ribozyme Catalysis of Metabolism in the RNA World

Xi Chen,  Na Li,  Andrew D. Ellington, 
  • Pages: 633-655
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Intractable Mixtures and the Origin of Life†

Alan W. Schwartz, 
  • Pages: 656-664
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From Interstellar Amino Acids to Prebiotic Catalytic Peptides: A Review

André Brack, 
  • Pages: 665-679
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The Chemistry That Preceded Life's Origin: A Study Guide from Meteorites

Sandra Pizzarello, 
  • Pages: 680-693
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Formamide Chemistry and the Origin of Informational Polymers

Raffaele Saladino,  Claudia Crestini,  Fabiana Ciciriello,  Giovanna Costanzo,  Ernesto Di Mauro, 
  • Pages: 694-720
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RNA: Prebiotic Product, or Biotic Invention?

Carole Anastasi,  Fabien F. Buchet,  Michael A. Crowe,  Alastair L. Parkes,  Matthew W. Powner,  James M. Smith,  John D. Sutherland, 
  • Pages: 721-739
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Research Articles

Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acids: Aminopropyl Nucleic Acids (APNAs)

Ding Zhou,  Matheus Froeyen,  Jozef Rozenski,  Arthur Van Aerschot,  Piet Herdewijn, 
  • Pages: 740-761
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Nonenzymatic Recombination of RNA: Possible Mechanism for the Formation of Novel Sequences

Alexei V. Lutay,  Marina A. Zenkova,  Valentin V. Vlassov, 
  • Pages: 762-767
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Review

Addressing the Problems of Base Pairing and Strand Cyclization in Template-Directed Synthesis: A Case for the Utility and Necessity of ‘Molecular Midwives’ and Reversible Backbone Linkages for the Origin of proto-RNA

Nicholas V. Hud,  Swapan S. Jain,  Xiaohui Li,  David G. Lynn, 
  • Pages: 768-783
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Research Articles

Chemical Primer Extension: Individual Steps of Spontaneous Replication

Jan A. Rojas Stütz,  Eric Kervio,  Christopher Deck,  Clemens Richert, 
  • Pages: 784-802
  • First Published: 19 April 2007

Conformational and Chiral Selection of Oligonucleotides

Matheus Froeyen,  François Morvan,  Jean-Jacques Vasseur,  Peter Nielsen,  Arthur Van Aerschot,  Helmut Rosemeyer,  Piet Herdewijn, 
  • Pages: 803-817
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Preparation of Guanine and Diaminopurine from Biuret. Part III†

Irene M. Lagoja,  Piet Herdewijn, 
  • Pages: 818-822
  • First Published: 19 April 2007