Franz Saija & Giuseppe Cassone 
Prebiotic Photochemistry [EPUB ebook] 
From Urey–Miller-like Experiments to Recent Findings

Photochemistry is an important facet in the study of the origin of life and prebiotic chemistry. Solar photons are the unique source of the large amounts of energy likely required to initiate the organisation of matter to produce biological life. The Miller–Urey experiment simulated the conditions thought to be present on the early earth and supported the hypothesis that under such conditions complex organic compounds could be synthesised from simpler inorganic precursors. The experiment inspired many others, including the production of various alcohols, aldehydes and organic acids through UV-photolysis of water vapour with carbon monoxide. This book covers the photochemical aspects of the study of prebiotic and origin of life chemistry an ideal companion for postgraduates and researchers in prebiotic chemistry, photochemistry, photobiology, chemical biology and astrochemistry.

Daftar Isi

The Light of Photophysics and Photochemistry; Extraterrestrial Photochemistry: Principles and Applications; Gas-phase Prebiotic Chemistry Driven by Ultraviolet Photolysis of Simple Molecules; Unveiling Early Earth Photochemistry Through Experimental Simulations of Planetary Atmospheres; Rethinking UV-induced Prebiotic Selection of Biomolecules; The Role of Photochemistry in the Prebiotic Model of Formamide; Nucleobases as Molecular Fossils of Prebiotic Photochemistry: Excited-state Dynamics of C2 and C6 Substituted Purines; Comets, Do They Have a Role in Prebiotic Photochemistry?; Life Chooses Homochirality: The Role of Cosmic Dust in Chiral Selection; Interstellar Complex Organic Molecules: A Step Toward Biomolecule Building Blocks in the Skies; The Buried Chemical Wealth of Ices in Protoplanetary Discs; Consequences of Heavy Bombardment on Prebiotic Synthesis; The Birth and Fate of Glycine: From the Interstellar Medium to Primitive Earth; Reconciling the Genetics-first and Metabolism-first Scenarios of the Origin of Life: Cyclic GMP as the Seed of Life;

Tentang Penulis

Giuseppe Cassone (1987) is currently tenure Researcher at the Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes of the Italian National Research Council. He received his Ph D diploma in 2016 in Physics and Chemistry of Materials at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne (Paris, France) under the supervision of Prof. A. Marco Saitta and performed postdoctoral researches at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Brno, Czechia) with Prof. Jiri Sponer until 2019. He got the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowhip proposal. He co-authored over 35 scientific articles and 2 book chapters.