The context for the emergence of Earth is a big puzzle as well as the definition of life itself. Here I report evidence that some terrestrial minerals and meteorites containing iron catalyzing inorganic and organic reactions generating Micro-Metallorganic-Magnetic-Materials (M4) able to perform non-enzymatic catalytic activities typical of modern life. Complexity, chemical composition, interactions with some mineral and/or rocks leave open the possibility that M4 materials might represent a kind of non conventional form of protometabolic complex chemical system from which the ancestors of the first living cells could have evolved on Earth.
Searching for the very first instants of Life on Earth: a possible role of M4 materials as prebiotic molecular substrates and extraordinary products / DEL GAUDIO, Rosanna. - on line booklet:unico(2021). (Intervento presentato al convegno Molecular Origin of Life, Munich 2021 tenutosi a online Conference nel 25th-27th August 2021).
Searching for the very first instants of Life on Earth: a possible role of M4 materials as prebiotic molecular substrates and extraordinary products
Rosanna del Gaudio
Investigation
2021
Abstract
The context for the emergence of Earth is a big puzzle as well as the definition of life itself. Here I report evidence that some terrestrial minerals and meteorites containing iron catalyzing inorganic and organic reactions generating Micro-Metallorganic-Magnetic-Materials (M4) able to perform non-enzymatic catalytic activities typical of modern life. Complexity, chemical composition, interactions with some mineral and/or rocks leave open the possibility that M4 materials might represent a kind of non conventional form of protometabolic complex chemical system from which the ancestors of the first living cells could have evolved on Earth.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
