Matthew W. Powner

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

Matthew W. Powner, Béatrice Gerland, John D. Sutherland · Nature · 2009 · 1.4K citations

Biosynthesis, Bioorganic Chemistry, Engineering +6

Peptide ligation by chemoselective aminonitrile coupling in water

Pierre Canavelli, Saidul Islam, Matthew W. Powner · Nature · 2019 · 190 citations · Full text

Peptide Engineering, Peptide Library, Peptide Ligation +3

Prebiotic synthesis of cysteine peptides that catalyze peptide ligation in neutral water

Callum S. Foden, Saidul Islam, Christian Fernández‐García et al. · Science · 2020 · 181 citations · Full text

Chemoselective Multicomponent One-Pot Assembly of Purine Precursors in Water

Matthew W. Powner, John D. Sutherland, Jack W. Szostak · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · 151 citations · Full text

Combinatorial Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Engineering +18

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

Saidul Islam, Matthew W. Powner · Chem · 2017 · 149 citations · Full text

Engineering, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology +4