The role of metal ions in chemical evolution: Polymerization of alanine and glycine in a cation-exchanged clay environment

The Chemistry of Clay‐Organic Reactions

M. M. Mortland · Soil Science Society of America Journal · 1975 · 1.2K citations

Agriculture, Chemistry, Soil Sciences +12

Peptide Formation in the Prebiotic Era: Thermal Condensation of Glycine in Fluctuating Clay Environments

N. Lahav, D. J. White, S. Chang · Science · 1978 · 376 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +17

Nonprotein Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite

Keith A. Kvenvolden, James G. Lawless, Cyril Ponnamperuma · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1971 · 305 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Earth Sciences +14

The Thermal Copolymerization of Amino Acids Common to Protein¹

Sidney W. Fox, Kaoru Harada · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1960 · 271 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +14

Prebiotic Synthesis of Polypeptides by Heterogeneous Polycondensation of Amino-acid Adenylates

Mella Paecht‐Horowitz, Julius Berger, A. Katchalsky · Nature · 1970 · 264 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biotechnology +13