Continuous Reaction Networks that Model Chemical Evolution of RNA

该项目旨在为早期地球上可能发生的化学演化开发实验模型，这些化学演化对生命的出现至关重要。该项目预计将揭示使用电离辐射和干湿循环相结合的核糖核苷酸生产合成途径。预期成果包括加深对一系列物理和化学参数的理解，这些参数将允许在拟议的地球化学环境下进行核糖核苷酸生产。在这个项目中获得的知识将有助于理解与早期地球环境相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.