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On the Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleobases, Nucleotides, Oligonucleotides, Pre-RNA and Pre-DNA Molecules
All the strategies for the prebiotic syntheses of RNA and DNA assume the adequate availability of the presumptive precursors such as purine and...
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Biologically Produced Sulfur
Sulfur compound oxidizing bacteria Sulfur compound oxidizing bacteria produce sulfur as an intermediate in the...
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Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Global Cluster Geometry Optimization
This contribution focuses upon the application of evolutionary algorithms to the nondeterministic polynomial hard problem of global cluster geometry...
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Liquid Sulfur
The molecular composition as well as the physical properties (including spectra) of liquid sulfur Liquid Sulfur...
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Speciation and Thermodynamics of Sulfur Vapor
Sulfur vapor Sulfur vapor at temperatures of between 200 and 1000 °C consists of all molecules with 2–10 atoms, some...
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Prediction of Crystal Structures Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Related Techniques
Methods, evolutionary and systematic search approaches, and applications of crystal structure prediction of closest-packed and framework materials...
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From the Prebiotic Synthesis of α-Amino Acids Towards a Primitive Translation Apparatus for the Synthesis of Peptides
The demonstration that ribosomal peptide synthesis is a ribozyme-catalyzed reaction does not establish that amino acids and peptides have been...
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Solid Sulfur Allotropes
Sulfur is the element with the largest number of solid allotropes. Most of these consist of unbranched cyclic molecules with ring sizes ranging from...
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Chemistry and Physics of Primitive Membranes
A membrane boundary structure was essential for the advent of cellular life. The membranes of contemporary cells are composed of a mosaic of...
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Aqueous Sulfur Sols
Sulfur Sulfur sols are colloidal colloidal solutions of elemental sulfur or of...
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Stochastic “Mirror Symmetry Breaking” via Self-Assembly, Reactivity and Amplification of Chirality: Relevance to Abiotic Conditions
Theories of prebiotic life suggest that homochirality emerged in Nature in abiotic times via deterministic or chance scenarios. This chapter deals...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...
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Homoatomic Sulfur Cations
This chapter gives an account on the recent achievements in an understanding of the synthesis, solution behavior, structure and bonding of the...
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An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Algorithms
Numerous techniques exist in science for tackling large-scale optimisation problems. In many instances, scientists must identify the best solution...
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The Genetic Algorithm Approach to Protein Structure Prediction
Predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their linear sequence is one of the major challenges in modern biology. It is widely...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Drug Design
Evolutionary algorithms have been widely adopted for solving many of the complex tasks involved in drug design. Here, applications to two different...
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Evolutionary Potential and Requirements for Minimal Protocells
Minimal protocell concepts have high intellectual and practical value. Following chemoton theory, developed by Tibor Gánti in 1971, we suggest that...
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Interdiffusion-enhanced cation exchange for HgSe and HgCdSe nanocrystals with infrared bandgaps
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals based on CdSe have been precisely optimized for photonic applications in the visible spectrum, with modern...
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Carbonaceous materials–20: electrochemical determination of viloxazine on a novel carbonaceous template
Since viloxazine is used as an antidepressant and approximately 15% of it is excreted from the body unchanged, detecting viloxazine in both bodily...
