Continuous Reaction Networks that Model Chemical Evolution of RNA

该项目旨在开发化学进化的实验模型，这些化学进化可能发生在早期地球上，对生命的出现很重要。该项目希望发现利用电离辐射和干湿循环相结合的方法生产核糖核苷酸的合成途径。预期结果包括加深对物理和化学参数范围的了解，这些参数将使核糖核苷酸的生产能够在拟议的地球化学环境下发生。在该项目中获得的知识将有助于理解与早期地球环境有关的复杂化学混合物的化学演化，并为核糖核苷酸如何以非生物方式出现提供新的机制。

This Project aims to develop experimental models for chemical evolution that may have happened on the early Earth and which were important to the emergence of life. This Project expects to uncover synthetic pathways for ribonucleotide production using a combination of ionizing radiation and dry-wet cycles. Expected outcomes include an increased understanding of the range of physical and chemical parameters that will allow for ribonucleotide production to occur under the proposed geochemical settings. The knowledge gained in this Project will benefit the understanding of the chemical evolution of complex chemical mixtures relevant to early Earth environments and provide new mechanisms for how ribonucleotides could have arisen abiotically.