Issue 71, 2019

Prebiotic synthesis at impact craters: the role of Fe-clays and iron meteorites

Abstract

Besides delivering plausible prebiotic feedstock molecules and high-energy initiators, extraterrestrial impacts could also affect the process of abiogenesis by altering the early Earth's geological environment in which primitive life was conceived. We show that iron-rich smectites formed by reprocessing of basalts due to the residual post-impact heat could catalyze the synthesis and accumulation of important prebiotic building blocks such as nucleobases, amino acids and urea.

Graphical abstract: Prebiotic synthesis at impact craters: the role of Fe-clays and iron meteorites

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Jun 2019
Accepted
05 Aug 2019
First published
05 Aug 2019

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 10563-10566

Prebiotic synthesis at impact craters: the role of Fe-clays and iron meteorites

A. Pastorek, J. Hrnčířová, L. Jankovič, L. Nejdl, S. Civiš, O. Ivanek, V. Shestivska, A. Knížek, P. Kubelík, J. Šponer, L. Petera, A. Křivková, G. Cassone, M. Vaculovičová, J. E. Šponer and M. Ferus, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 10563 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC04627E

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