Transition-metal complexes in the prebiotic soup

Beck, Martin

doi:10.1007/bf00437354

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“…121 19.8, 25.5, 32.3 [2, 201 19.8 (3.98), 32.0, 44.0 151 -404. 5, 193.5, 470, 193.5 [7l 408, 163, 421, 163 171 424, 170, 399, 170 [71 - (2.32 (1981) paration of the selenometalates, and particularly of the mixed thioselenometalates, is difficult (inter a h because of their high sensitivity to 02).…”

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“…20. 934-955 (1981) MoSZ-, which is believed to be the strongest Cu antagon-i~t''~", is formed in tests in vifro, under physiological conditions, in a medium consisting of rumen contents (18 h at 39°C) from ammonium molybdate and ammonium sulfate, or organic sulfur compounddzo8]. The antagonistic interaction between CU"+ and MoSZ-has been impressively demonstrated by determining the tissue levels of Cu and Mo in rats given various amounts of radioactive 64CuC12 or (NH4)299M~S4 in their f~~d~~~~~ (see Table 4).…”

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Transition Metal Thiometalates: Properties and Significance in Complex and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Müller

Diemann

Jostes

et al. 1981

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.

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In their highest oxidation states the early transition metals V, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, and Re form tetrahedral, strongly colored thioanions endowed with some remarkable properties. Thiometalates can be formed by solid-state reactions or in solution from the oxometalates. Polythiometalates with mixed valences can be produced by new types of intramolecular condensation-redox reactions from thioanions. The metal-sulfur bonds can react either nucleophilically or electrophilically, and in the case of the Mo-S bonds this is of biochemical interest. It is important to mention the applications of thiometalates as ligands in complex chemistry (generation of multi-metal complexes, versatile coordination behavior, unique electronic properties of the ligands), in which thiometalato complexes with a variety of electron populations can exist because of the marked electron delocalization. Apart from this, MoSihas a significance in bioinorganic problems, e.g. the nitrogenase problem and Cu-Mo antagonism. 0 Verlag Chemie GmbH. 6940 Weinheim, 057O-0833/81/1111-0934 $02.50/0 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 20, 934-955 (1981) [*' I Microbial Degradation of Chlorinated Arenes, Part 7.-Part 6: [2c]. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 20 (1981) No. I 1 0 Verlag Chemie GrnbH, 6940 Weinheirn. I981 0570-0833/81/II11-0955 $ 02.50/0

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Transition Metal Thiometalates: Properties and Significance in Complex and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Müller

Diemann

Jostes

et al. 1981

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.

609

231

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“…Having explored the conditions under which two modes of acylation of 1 take place, we asked if similar reactivity patterns are observed if the reaction is carried out in the presence of copper chelating ligands. Previous work has suggested roles for copper chelating ligands like nitriles and amino acids in the origin of life, ,, and in cells, copper is found nearly entirely in its complexed form. Furthermore, it has been suggested that certain amphiphilic lipid species may serve as ligands for complexing Cu(II) inside cells .…”

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Chemoselective Esterification of Natural and Prebiotic 1,2-Amino Alcohol Amphiphiles in Water

Bhattacharya,

Tanwar,

Fracassi

et al. 2023

J. Am. Chem. Soc.

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“…The possible role of transition metals in biogenesis was suggested early on (Beck and Ling, 1977) in an article with the intriguing title "Transition metal complexes in the prebiotic soup." A group of books prior to 2000 on the origin of life barely made mention of the role of transition metals (Shapiro,1986;Morowitz, 1992;Lahav, 1999;Fry, 2000).…”

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Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements

Morowitz

Srinivasan²,

Smith³

2010

The Biological Bulletin

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The assumption that all biological catalysts are either proteins or ribozymes leads to an outstanding enigma of biogenesis-how to determine the synthetic pathways to the monomers for the efficient formation of catalytic macromolecules in the absence of any such macromolecules. The last 60 years have witnessed chemists developing an understanding of organocatalysis and ligand field theory, both of which give demonstrable low-molecular-weight catalysts. We assume that transition-metal-ligand complexes are likely to have occurred in the deep ocean trenches by the combination of naturally occurring oceanic metals and ligands synthesized from the emergent CO(2), H(2), NH(3), H(2)S, and H(3)PO(4). We are now in a position to investigate experimentally the metal-ligand complexes, their catalytic function, and the reaction networks that could have played a role in the development of metabolism and life itself.

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Transition-metal complexes in the prebiotic soup

Cited by 26 publications

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Transition Metal Thiometalates: Properties and Significance in Complex and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Transition Metal Thiometalates: Properties and Significance in Complex and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Chemoselective Esterification of Natural and Prebiotic 1,2-Amino Alcohol Amphiphiles in Water

Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements

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