Chemical etiology of nucleic acid structure: the α-threofuranosyl-(3'→ 2') oligonucleotide system KU Schoning, P Scholz, S Guntha, X Wu, R Krishnamurthy, ... Science 290 (5495), 1347-1351, 2000 | 657 | 2000 |
Ester‐mediated amide bond formation driven by wet–dry cycles: A possible path to polypeptides on the prebiotic earth JG Forsythe, SS Yu, I Mamajanov, MA Grover, R Krishnamurthy, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54 (34), 9871-9875, 2015 | 313 | 2015 |
The origin of RNA and “my grandfather’s axe” NV Hud, BJ Cafferty, R Krishnamurthy, LD Williams Chemistry & biology 20 (4), 466-474, 2013 | 231 | 2013 |
Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions C Gibard, S Bhowmik, M Karki, EK Kim, R Krishnamurthy Nature Chemistry 10 (2), 212-217, 2018 | 201 | 2018 |
Pyranosyl‐RNA (‘p‐RNA’): Base‐pairing selectivity and potential to replicate. Preliminary communication S Pitsch, R Krishnamurthy, M Bolli, S Wendeborn, A Holzner, M Minton, ... Helvetica chimica acta 78 (7), 1621-1635, 1995 | 168 | 1995 |
Chemistry of abiotic nucleotide synthesis M Yadav, R Kumar, R Krishnamurthy Chemical reviews 120 (11), 4766-4805, 2020 | 139 | 2020 |
Chemical etiology of nucleic acid structure: Comparing pentopyranosyl-(2'→ 4') oligonucleotides with RNA M Beier, F Reck, T Wagner, R Krishnamurthy, A Eschenmoser Science 283 (5402), 699-703, 1999 | 138 | 1999 |
Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water BJ Cafferty, DM Fialho, J Khanam, R Krishnamurthy, NV Hud Nature communications 7 (1), 11328, 2016 | 129 | 2016 |
Role of pKa of Nucleobases in the Origins of Chemical Evolution R Krishnamurthy Accounts of chemical research 45 (12), 2035-2044, 2012 | 122 | 2012 |
A plausible simultaneous synthesis of amino acids and simple peptides on the primordial Earth ET Parker, M Zhou, AS Burton, DP Glavin, JP Dworkin, R Krishnamurthy, ... Angewandte Chemie 126 (31), 8270-8274, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
Mapping the landscape of potentially primordial informational oligomers: oligodipeptides and oligodipeptoids tagged with triazines as recognition elements GK Mittapalli, KR Reddy, H Xiong, O Munoz, B Han, F De Riccardis, ... Angewandte Chemie 119 (14), 2522-2529, 2007 | 117 | 2007 |
The α‐L‐Threofuranosyl‐(3′→2′)‐oligonucleotide System (‘TNA'): Synthesis and Pairing Properties KU Schöning, P Scholz, X Wu, S Guntha, G Delgado, R Krishnamurthy, ... Helvetica chimica acta 85 (12), 4111-4153, 2002 | 115 | 2002 |
Investigation of a model for 1, 2-asymmetric induction in reactions of. alpha.-carbalkoxy radicals: a stereochemical comparison of reactions of. alpha.-carbalkoxy radicals and … DJ Hart, R Krishnamurthy The Journal of Organic Chemistry 57 (16), 4457-4470, 1992 | 100 | 1992 |
Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligodipeptides Tagged with 2, 4‐Disubstituted 5‐Aminopyrimidines as Recognition Elements GK Mittapalli, YM Osornio, MA Guerrero, KR Reddy, R Krishnamurthy, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition 46 (14), 2478-2484, 2007 | 99 | 2007 |
Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle G Springsteen, JR Yerabolu, J Nelson, CJ Rhea, R Krishnamurthy Nature communications 9 (1), 91, 2018 | 95 | 2018 |
Regioselective α‐phosphorylation of aldoses in aqueous solution R Krishnamurthy, S Guntha, A Eschenmoser Angewandte Chemie International Edition 39 (13), 2281-2285, 2000 | 93 | 2000 |
Formation of glycolaldehyde phosphate from glycolaldehyde in aqueous solution R Krishnamurthy, G Arrhenius, A Eschenmoser Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 29, 333-354, 1999 | 92 | 1999 |
Spontaneous prebiotic formation of a β-ribofuranoside that self-assembles with a complementary heterocycle MC Chen, BJ Cafferty, I Mamajanov, I Gállego, J Khanam, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (15), 5640-5646, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
Free-radical cyclizations: application to the total synthesis of dl-pleurotin and dl-dihydropleurotin acid DJ Hart, HC Huang, R Krishnamurthy, T Schwartz Journal of the American Chemical Society 111 (19), 7507-7519, 1989 | 91 | 1989 |
Selective incorporation of proteinaceous over nonproteinaceous cationic amino acids in model prebiotic oligomerization reactions M Frenkel-Pinter, JW Haynes, AS Petrov, BT Burcar, R Krishnamurthy, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (33), 16338-16346, 2019 | 87 | 2019 |