Meteorites as Catalysts for Prebiotic Chemistry
Meteorites as Catalysts for Prebiotic Chemistry
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.201303690
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发表时间:
2013-12-09
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Di Mauro, Ernesto
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作者:
Saladino, Raffaele;Botta, Giorgia;Di Mauro, Ernesto
Meteorite late heavy bombardment [1] was a major event after the accretion of the earth. The relevance of organic syntheses driven by impact shocks was first proposed by Chyba and Sagan in 1992,[2] based on the scanty indications available at the time. How would the contribution by meteorites to an early earth organic pool compare with the syntheses these meteorites might have induced after their impact?[2]Here, we report the catalytic effect of several types of meteorites,[3a, b] iron, stony-iron,[3b] chondrites,[4] and achondrites (entreis 1–12 in Table 1 [2, 5]) in the syntheses of organic molecules of prebiotic interest using the model reaction of the thermal condensation of formamide(NH2CHO).[6] NH2CHO is a ubiquitous molecule in the universe that has been observed in the comet Hale-Bopp,[7] in the stellar objects W33A,[8] NGC7538, and W3ACHTUNGTRENNUNG (H2O),[9] in the interstellar