Origin of Life research is a fast growing field of study with each year bringing new breakthroughs. Recent discoveries include novel syntheses of life’s building blocks, mechanisms of activation and interaction between molecules, and newly identified environments that provide promising conditions for these syntheses and mechanisms. Even with these new findings, firmly grounded in rigorous laboratory experiments, researchers often find themselves uncertain about how to apply them. How can a bridge be built between the laboratory and the geochemical environment? A critical question to ask when seeking to apply new results in origins is: how can this chemistry occur without direct intervention from a chemist? We believe the first step toward answering this question lies in the determination of rate constants and the construction of chemical networks to describe prebiotic chemistry in geochemical environments.

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无所事事益生元化学：化学动力学作为益生元合理性的窗口


生命起源研究是一个快速发展的研究领域，每年都会带来新的突破。最近的发现包括生命组成部分的新型合成、分子之间激活和相互作用的机制，以及为这些合成和机制提供有希望的条件的新发现的环境。即使这些新发现牢牢地建立在严格的实验室实验基础上，研究人员也经常发现自己不确定如何应用它们。如何在实验室和地球化学环境之间架起一座桥梁？在寻求在原点应用新结果时要问的一个关键问题是：如果没有化学家的直接干预，这种化学反应是如何发生的？我们相信回答这个问题的第一步在于确定速率常数和构建化学网络来描述地球化学环境中的益生元化学。