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Volume 47, Issue 3

September 2017

Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jim Ferris

Issue Editor:

Sandra Pizzarello

12 articles in this issue

Introduction to the Special Issue – a Personal Note
Alan W. Schwartz
Editorial 03 July 2017 Pages: 217 - 217
Farewell to a Friend
André Brack
OriginalPaper 26 December 2016 Pages: 219 - 222
Mechanism for the Coupled Photochemistry of Ammonia and Acetylene: Implications for Giant Planets, Comets and Interstellar Organic Synthesis
Thomas C. Keane
Prebiotic Chemistry 09 August 2017 Pages: 223 - 248
Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites: the Chronicle of a Potential Evolutionary Path between Stars and Life
Sandra Pizzarello
Everett Shock
OriginalPaper 11 January 2017 Pages: 249 - 260
Cataclysm No More: New Views on the Timing and Delivery of Lunar Impactors
Nicolle E. B. Zellner
Astrobiology Open access 03 May 2017 Pages: 261 - 280
Walking over 4 Gya: Chemical Evolution from Photochemistry to Mineral and Organic Chemistries Leading to an RNA World
Kunio Kawamura
Marie-Christine Maurel
Review 21 April 2017 Pages: 281 - 296
The Comparison of Hydrochloric Acid and Phosphoric Acid Treatments in the Preparation of Montmorillonite Catalysts for RNA Synthesis
Michael Frank Aldersley
Prakash C. Joshi
Yixing Huang
Prebiotic Chemistry 16 February 2017 Pages: 297 - 304
Nucleotide Selectivity in Abiotic RNA Polymerization Reactions
Kristin M. Coari
Rebecca C. Martin
Linda B. McGown
Prebiotic Chemistry 03 February 2017 Pages: 305 - 321
Interaction, at Ambient Temperature and 80 °C, between Minerals and Artificial Seawaters Resembling the Present Ocean Composition and that of 4.0 Billion Years Ago
Cristine E. A. Carneiro
Antonio C. Stabile
Dimas A. M. Zaia
Prebiotic Minerals 25 October 2016 Pages: 323 - 343
Can an Imidazole Be Formed from an Alanyl-Seryl-Glycine Tripeptide under Possible Prebiotic Conditions?
Alberto Vázquez-Salazar
George Tan
Antonio Lazcano
Hypothesis 22 October 2016 Pages: 345 - 354
Polycondensation of Asparagine-comprising Dipeptides in Aqueous Media-A Simulation of Polypeptide Formation in Primordial Earth Hydrosphere
Toratane Munegumi
Naoya Tanikawa
Prebiotic Chemistry 26 July 2017 Pages: 355 - 369
Transfer of Asymmetry between Proteinogenic Amino Acids under Harsh Conditions
Arkadii V. Tarasevych
Thomas Vives
Jean-Claude Guillemin
Prebiotic Chemistry 31 March 2017 Pages: 371 - 379