Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - A role for meteoritic iron in the emergence of life on Earth mpia.de/news/science/2…

Congratulations to the meteorite team (Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, @emergenceoflife), for closing the gap on making formaldehyde, acetaldehyde from CO2 for the next steps in the emergence of life: prebiotic photoredox organocatalysts, DNA nucleosides etc.. rdcu.be/dc0nW

cen.acs.org/physical-chemi… via C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)

Revisiting A Long-Time Question: How stellar radiation breaks symmetry in meteoritic isovaline? By studying the response of iva to chiral light, we aimed to simulate the photolysis processes that may occur in space. European Research Council (ERC) Nature Communications rdcu.be/dd5ca

Many thanks to Frank Glorius for great discussions and his lecture about discovery and sensitivity in (photo)catalysis Universität München!

Meet the editors of Chirality, the unrivaled scientific medium on chirality! ow.ly/nq6850ON8iW Ripes Trapp Research Group

Our Nature paper on the formation of Earth is out today. A thread. The paper is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cosmochemists who study meteorites in the laboratory and astrophysicists who study planet formation. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🗓️Tomorrow - June 20th 11:00 am CEST #MOM 2023 kicks off. Join us by registering at lmu.de/mom2023

Special thanks for the invitation to the JCF colloquium on 'Initiating Molecular Life' at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Rostock. Here a picture with Arne Estelmann from the JCF Rostock in front of the portrait of Walden (Walden inversion). GDCh

Congratulations to Laura for successfully defending her excellent doctoral thesis about ‘In silico Investigations towards Homochirality in the Context of the Origin of Life’! rdcu.be/cUa7M

When in Rome.. you start your conference with some music. Ben and Damian Padin Santos, PhD are at Chirality2023

Congratulations to Simone for successfully defending her excellent doctoral thesis about autocatalytic transformations! Look at the hat, a little Oktoberfest!

Congratulations to the Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award recipients Kenzo Yamatsugu and Masakazu Nambo visiting Universität München. Great talks about Chemical Catalysis Enabling Synthetic Intervention in Cellular Epigenome & Transformations of Organosulfones!

(Photoredox) Organocatalysis in the Emergence of Life: Discovery, Applications, and Molecular Evolution | Accounts of Chemical Research pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

See the #unique #original samples of #urea (1828) from Friedrich Wöhler! I took this picture in the Merck museum.

Congratulations to Max for successfully defending his excellent doctoral thesis about prebiotic phosphorylation reactions with prebiotically formed imidazolidine-4-thiones!

Congratulations to Sabrina for successfully defending her excellent doctoral thesis about novel phosphine-ligands and catalysts (SabPhos)!

Nucleophilicity of 4-(Alkylthio)-3-imidazoline Derived Enamines (Ofial, Trapp, et al.) Trapp Research Group, Ofial_Lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

📢 DFG public | @[email protected] funds the CRC 392 Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments which is founded on the research of @emergenceoflife 🎉. Here is the news release in DE 👇dfg.de/service/presse…

Honored to welcome Prof. Eric Jacobsen Universität München giving a great lecture on privileged chiral catalysts.