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Journal articles
2024, 'Harnessing Radicals: Advances in Self-Assembly and Molecular Machinery', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202408271
,2024, 'RNA-Binding Peptides Inspired by the RNA Recognition Motif', ACS Chemical Biology, 19, pp. 243 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.3c00694
,2024, 'Dehydration promotes phosphoramidate-linked amino acidyl and peptido adenosine conjugates', Chemical Communications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4cc03602f
,2023, 'Assessment of Stoichiometric Autocatalysis across Element Groups', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, pp. 22483 - 22493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c07041
,2023, 'Carbonyl Migration in Uronates Affords a Potential Prebiotic Pathway for Pentose Production', JACS Au, 3, pp. 2522 - 2535, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00299
,2023, 'Towards a prebiotic chemoton - nucleotide precursor synthesis driven by the autocatalytic formose reaction', Chemical Science, 14, pp. 9589 - 9599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3sc03185c
,2023, 'Exploring Artificial Nucleic Acid Mimicking Peptide Nanofibers', Chemistry of Materials, 35, pp. 4355 - 4365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00445
,2023, 'Alternating co-synthesis of glycol nucleic acid (GNA) monomers with dicarboxylic acids via drying', Chemical Communications, 59, pp. 6865 - 6868, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2cc06818d
,2022, 'A Physicochemical Consideration of Prebiotic Microenvironments for Self-Assembly and Prebiotic Chemistry', Life, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12101595
,2021, 'Radiolysis generates a complex organosynthetic chemical network', Scientific Reports, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81293-6
,2020, 'Prebiotic reaction networks in water', Life, 10, pp. 1 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10120352
,2020, 'Radicals in prebiotic chemistry', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92, pp. 1971 - 1986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pac-2020-0805
,2020, 'Prebiotic metabolism gets a boost', Nature Chemistry, 12, pp. 982 - 985, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00567-0
,2020, 'Selbstorganisation in Wasser mit N‐substituierten Aminen', Angewandte Chemie, 132, pp. 18506 - 18524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.201910739
,2020, 'Self-Assembly in Water with N-Substituted Imines', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 59, pp. 18350 - 18367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201910739
,2020, 'Ultraviolet-Driven Deamination of Cytidine Ribonucleotides under Planetary Conditions', Astrobiology, 20, pp. 878 - 888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2182
,2020, 'A continuous reaction network that produces RNA precursors', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, pp. 13267 - 13274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922139117
,2020, 'Radiolytically Driven Chemical Evolution', Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 129, pp. 837 - 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.129.837
,2018, 'Estimating the capacity for production of formamide by radioactive minerals on the prebiotic Earth', Scientific Reports, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18483-8
,2018, 'Radiolytic Synthesis of Cyanogen Chloride, Cyanamide and Simple Sugar Precursors', ChemistrySelect, 3, pp. 10169 - 10174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/slct.201802242
,2018, 'Synthesis of a Nonhydrolyzable Nucleotide Phosphoroimidazolide Analogue That Catalyzes Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, pp. 783 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b11623
,2018, 'Prebiotic geochemical automata at the intersection of radiolytic chemistry, physical complexity, and systems biology', Complexity, 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9376183
,2018, 'Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean-Archaean Earth', Chemical Communications, 54, pp. 1121 - 1124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7cc07748c
,2018, 'Synthesis of imidazole-activated ribonucleotides using cyanogen chloride', Chemical Communications, 54, pp. 511 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7cc08489g
,2017, 'Retraction: Oligoarginine peptides slow strand annealing and assist non-enzymatic RNA replication.', Nat Chem, 9, pp. 1286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2885
,2017, 'Insight into the mechanism of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension from the structure of an RNA-GpppG complex', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, pp. 7659 - 7664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704006114
,2017, 'Tayi et al. reply', Nature, 547, pp. E14 - E15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22802
,2017, 'Common and Potentially Prebiotic Origin for Precursors of Nucleotide Synthesis and Activation', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 8780 - 8783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b01562
,2017, 'Downstream oligonucleotides strongly enhance the affinity of GMP to RNA primer-template complexes', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 571 - 574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b09760
,2016, 'Oligoarginine peptides slow strand annealing and assist non-enzymatic RNA replication', Nature Chemistry, 8, pp. 915 - 921, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2551
,2016, 'Influence of Constitution and Charge on Radical Pairing Interactions in Tris-radical Tricationic Complexes', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, pp. 8288 - 8300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b04343
,2016, 'Quantum Mechanical and Experimental Validation that Cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) Forms a 1:1 Inclusion Complex with Tetrathiafulvalene', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, pp. 2736 - 2745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201502157
,2015, 'Thermodynamic insights into 2-thiouridine-enhanced RNA hybridization', Nucleic Acids Research, 43, pp. 7675 - 7687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv761
,2015, 'Uncovering the thermodynamics of monomer binding for RNA replication', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, pp. 6373 - 6382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b02707
,2015, 'Template-directed nonenzymatic oligonucleotide synthesis: Lessons from synthetic chemistry', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 87, pp. 205 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pac-2014-1004
,2015, 'ChemInform Abstract: Template‐Directed Nonenzymatic Oligonucleotide Synthesis: Lessons from Synthetic Chemistry', ChemInform, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.201519288
,2014, 'Relative contractile motion of the rings in a switchable palindromic [3]rotaxane in aqueous solution driven by radical-pairing interactions', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12, pp. 6089 - 6093, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ob01228c
,2014, 'Radical-cation dimerization overwhelms inclusion in [N]pseudorotaxanes', Chemistry - A European Journal, 20, pp. 7334 - 7344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201400069
,2014, 'Ground-state kinetics of bistable redox-active donor-acceptor mechanically interlocked molecules', Accounts of Chemical Research, 47, pp. 482 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ar400161z
,2013, 'Relative unidirectional translation in an artificial molecular assembly fueled by light', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135, pp. 18609 - 18620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja4094204
,2013, 'ChemInform Abstract: Beyond Perylene Diimides—Diazaperopyrenium Dications as Chameleonic Nanoscale Building Blocks', ChemInform, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.201325198
,2013, 'Selective isolation of gold facilitated by second-sphere coordination with α-cyclodextrin', Nature Communications, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2891
,2013, 'Intramolecular redox-induced dimerization in a viologen dendrimer', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1, pp. 2302 - 2307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3tc00740e
,2013, 'Beyond perylene diimides - Diazaperopyrenium dications as chameleonic nanoscale building blocks', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 8, pp. 524 - 532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asia.201200780
,2013, 'A radically configurable six-state compound', Science, 339, pp. 429 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1228429
,2013, 'Organic switches for surfaces and devices', Advanced Materials, 25, pp. 331 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201201912
,2013, 'Mechanical bond-induced radical stabilization', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135, pp. 456 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja310060n
,2012, 'A semiconducting organic radical cationic host-guest complex', ACS Nano, 6, pp. 9964 - 9971, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn303553z
,2012, 'Tetrathiafulvalene hetero radical cation dimerization in a redox-active [2]catenane', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, pp. 19136 - 19145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja307577t
,2012, 'The chameleonic nature of diazaperopyrenium recognition processes', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 51, pp. 11872 - 11877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201205089
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