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Chemistry and the Origins of Life
Christopher ButchResearch ScientistBMSIS, ELSI, and Emory University
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Organic Chemistry is the Chemistry of Life
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Origins of Biomolecules
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Natural experiments
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The tar problemBiomolecules plus heat
and time
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Open Questions• What molecules can be and are created without
life?
• How can these molecules be made to react in a life like manner?
• How can formation of wasteful byproducts like tars be prevented?
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Suggested Readinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circum
stellar_molecules
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/murchison-meteorite/
Lazcano, Antonio, and Jeffrey L. Bada. "The 1953 Stanley L. Miller experiment: fifty years of prebiotic organic chemistry." Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 33.3 (2003): 235-242.
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ReferencesFerus, Martin, et al. "Formation of nucleobases in a Miller–
Urey reducing atmosphere." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.17 (2017): 4306-4311
Miller, Stanley L. "A production of amino acids under possible primitive earth conditions." Science 117.3046 (1953): 528-529.
Benner, Steven A., Hyo-Joong Kim, and Matthew A. Carrigan. "Asphalt, water, and the prebiotic synthesis of ribose, ribonucleosides, and RNA." Accounts of chemical research 45.12 (2012): 2025-2034.