Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2017,13, 1551–1563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.155
apparatuses. We will summarize the recent advances in system chemistry and show that chemical systems in the geochemical context imply a form of chemicalcontiguity in the syntheses of the various molecules that precede modern biomolecules.
Keywords: chemicalcontiguity; chemical systems; geochemical
relation to a specific geochemical environment. It also encompasses an important, often neglected, dimension: the fact that mixtures of disparate molecular classes imply a certain chemicalcontiguity in their syntheses. From the point of view of chemical research, a systems approach has, however, one
rates are key drivers of synthetic chemistry, those drivers for prebiotic systems chemistry appear to be less important than integration, contiguity, auto-catalysis and periodicity.
In this short article, we will first attempt at defining chemical systems and chemicalcontiguity. Then, using recent
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(A) Possible approaches to the historical reconstruction. Two complementary approaches exist: top-d...