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  1. Selection of Ribofuranose‐Isomer Among Pentoses by Phosphorylation with Diamidophosphate

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2025, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  2. Selection of Ribofuranose‐Isomer Among Pentoses by Phosphorylation with Diamidophosphate

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2025, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  3. Phosphorylation of nucleosides by P-N bond species generated from prebiotic reduced phosphorus sources

    Article • Communications Chemistry, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  4. Protocol for preparing cyclic-phospholipid decanoate and glyceryl-didecanoate-phosphate-containing vesicles

    Article • STAR Protocols, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  5. A Magnesium Binding Site And The Anomeric Effect Regulate The Abiotic Redox Chemistry Of Nicotinamide Nucleotides

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  6. Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles

    Article • Chem, February 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  7. Cyclophospholipids Enable a Protocellular Life Cycle

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  8. Enhancing Prebiotic Phosphorylation and Modulating the Regioselectivity of Nucleosides with Diamidophosphate

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  9. Carbonyl Migration in Uronates Affords a Potential Prebiotic Pathway for Pentose Production

    Article • JACS Au, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  10. The potential of glyoxylate as a prebiotic source molecule and a reactant in protometabolic pathways—The glyoxylose reaction

    Article • Chem, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  11. Prebiotic Chemistry of Phosphite: Mild Thermal Routes to Form Condensed-P Energy Currency Molecules Leading Up to the Formation of Organophosphorus Compounds

    Article • Life, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  12. A Plausible Prebiotic Path to Nucleosides: Ribosides and Related Aldosides Generated from Ribulose, Fructose, and Similar Abiotic Precursors

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  13. Nucleobases in Meteorites to Nucleobases in RNA and DNA?

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  14. Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways

    Article • Nature Chemistry, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  15. Cyanide as a primordial reductant enables a protometabolic reductive glyoxylate pathway

    Article • Nature Chemistry, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  16. A Plausible Prebiotic One‐Pot Synthesis of Orotate and Pyruvate Suggestive of Common Protometabolic Pathways

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  17. One-pot chemical pyro- and tri-phosphorylation of peptides by using diamidophosphate in water

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  18. Synthesis and hydrolytic stability of cyclic phosphatidic acids: implications for synthetic- and proto-cell studies

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  19. Innenrücktitelbild: Concurrent Prebiotic Formation of Nucleoside‐Amidophosphates and Nucleoside‐Triphosphates Potentiates Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Polymerization (Angew. Chem. 1/2022)

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  20. Inside Back Cover: Concurrent Prebiotic Formation of Nucleoside‐Amidophosphates and Nucleoside‐Triphosphates Potentiates Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Polymerization (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2022)

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  21. Concurrent Prebiotic Formation of Nucleoside‐Amidophosphates and Nucleoside‐Triphosphates Potentiates Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Polymerization

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  22. Concurrent Prebiotic Formation of Nucleoside‐Amidophosphates and Nucleoside‐Triphosphates Potentiates Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Polymerization

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  23. Prebiotic Synthesis of α-Amino Acids and Orotate from α-Ketoacids Potentiates Transition to Extant Metabolic Pathways

    Article • October 2021, Research Square

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  24. Cover Feature: Towards an Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of Variable Unnatural Base‐Pair Behavior: A Biophysical Analysis of dNaM‐dTPT3 (Chem. Eur. J. 56/2021)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  25. Towards an Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of Variable Unnatural Base‐Pair Behavior: A Biophysical Analysis of dNaM‐dTPT3

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  26. Cover Feature: Diamidophosphate (DAP): A Plausible Prebiotic Phosphorylating Reagent with a Chem to BioChem Potential? (ChemBioChem 21/2021)

    Article • ChemBioChem, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  27. Depsipeptide Nucleic Acids: Prebiotic Formation, Oligomerization, and Self-Assembly of a New Proto-Nucleic Acid Candidate

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  28. Diamidophosphate (DAP): A Plausible Prebiotic Phosphorylating Reagent with a Chem to BioChem Potential?

    Article • ChemBioChem, August 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  29. Separations of Carbohydrates with Noncovalent Shift Reagents by Frequency-Modulated Ion Mobility-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, August 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  30. Cyanide as a Primordial Reductant enables a Protometabolic Reductive Glyoxylate Pathway

    Article • June 2021, Research Square

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  31. Transcriptional processing of an unnatural base pair by eukaryotic RNA polymerase II

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  32. Prebiotic Phosphorylation and Concomitant Oligomerization of Deoxynucleosides to form DNA

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  33. Prebiotic Phosphorylation and Concomitant Oligomerization of Deoxynucleosides to form DNA

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  34. Frontispiece: The Unexpected Base‐Pairing Behavior of Cyanuric Acid in RNA and Ribose versus Cyanuric Acid Induced Helicene Assembly of Nucleic Acids: Implications for the Pre‐RNA Paradigm

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  35. Noncovalent Helicene Structure between Nucleic Acids and Cyanuric Acid

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  36. The Unexpected Base‐Pairing Behavior of Cyanuric Acid in RNA and Ribose versus Cyanuric Acid Induced Helicene Assembly of Nucleic Acids: Implications for the Pre‐RNA Paradigm

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  37. Prebiotically Plausible RNA Activation Compatible with Ribozyme‐Catalyzed Ligation

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  38. Präbiotisch plausible RNA‐Aktivierung kompatibel mit ribozymkatalysierter Ligation

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  39. A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids

    Article • Nature Chemistry, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  40. A sensitive quantitative analysis of abiotically synthesized short homopeptides using ultraperformance liquid chromatography and time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Article • Journal of Chromatography A, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  41. Depsipeptide nucleic acids: prebiotic formation, oligomerization, and self-assembly of a new candidate proto-nucleic acid

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  42. Mutually stabilizing interactions between proto-peptides and RNA

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  43. Introduction: Chemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

    Article • Chemical Reviews, June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  44. Chemical Origins of Life: Its Engagement with Society

    Article • Trends in Chemistry, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  45. New codons for efficient production of unnatural proteins in a semisynthetic organism

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  46. Nanopore Sequencing of an Expanded Genetic Alphabet Reveals High-Fidelity Replication of a Predominantly Hydrophobic Unnatural Base Pair

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  47. Chemistry of Abiotic Nucleotide Synthesis

    Article • Chemical Reviews, January 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  48. Organic acid shift reagents for the discrimination of carbohydrate isobars by ion mobility-mass spectrometry

    Article • The Analyst, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  49. The Oligomerization of Glucose Under Plausible Prebiotic Conditions

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  50. Synthesis of 2-Thioorotidine and Comparison of Its Unusual Instability with Its Canonical Pyrimidine Counterparts

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, October 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  51. Prebiotic Phosphorylation of Uridine using Diamidophosphate in Aerosols

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  52. The role of sugar-backbone heterogeneity and chimeras in the simultaneous emergence of RNA and DNA

    Article • Nature Chemistry, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  53. Cyclophospholipids Increase Protocellular Stability to Metal Ions

    Article • Small, September 2019, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  54. Bis(dimethylamino)phosphorodiamidate: A Reagent for the Regioselective Cyclophosphorylation of cis-Diols Enabling One-Step Access to High-Value Target Cyclophosphates

    Article • Organic Letters, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  55. Selective incorporation of proteinaceous over nonproteinaceous cationic amino acids in model prebiotic oligomerization reactions

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  56. Optimization of Replication, Transcription, and Translation in a Semi-Synthetic Organism

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  57. Cyclophospholipids Increase Protocellular Stability to Metal Ions

    Article • June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  58. Cyclophospholipids Increase Protocellular Stability to Metal Ions

    Article • June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  59. Geochemical Sources and Availability of Amidophosphates on the Early Earth

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  60. Geochemical Sources and Availability of Amidophosphates on the Early Earth

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  61. Prebiotic phosphorylation of 2-thiouridine provides either nucleotides or DNA building blocks via photoreduction

    Article • Nature Chemistry, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  62. Carbohydrate isomer resolutionviamulti-site derivatization cyclic ion mobility-mass spectrometry

    Article • The Analyst, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  63. Experimentally investigating the origin of DNA/RNA on early Earth

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  64. Frontispiece: Life's Biological Chemistry: A Destiny or Destination Starting from Prebiotic Chemistry?

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  65. Base-Mediated Cascade Aldol Addition and Fragmentation Reactions of Dihydroxyfumaric Acid and Aromatic Aldehydes: Controlling Chemodivergence via Choice of Base, Solvent, and Substituents

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  66. Frontispiece: Chimeric XNA: An Unconventional Design for Orthogonal Informational Systems

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  67. Effect of temperature modulations on TEMPO-mediated regioselective oxidation of unprotected carbohydrates and nucleosides

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  68. Life's Biological Chemistry: A Destiny or Destination Starting from Prebiotic Chemistry?

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  69. Chimeric XNA: An Unconventional Design for Orthogonal Informational Systems

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  70. Heterogeneous Pyrophosphate‐Linked DNA–Oligonucleotides: Aversion to DNA but Affinity for RNA

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  71. Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  72. Glycosylation of a model proto-RNA nucleobase with non-ribose sugars: implications for the prebiotic synthesis of nucleosides

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  73. Rapid resolution of carbohydrate isomers via multi-site derivatization ion mobility-mass spectrometry

    Article • The Analyst, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  74. Elongation of Model Prebiotic Proto-Peptides by Continuous Monomer Feeding

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  75. Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions

    Article • Nature Chemistry, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  76. Surveying the sequence diversity of model prebiotic peptides by mass spectrometry

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  77. Orotidine‐Containing RNA: Implications for the Hierarchical Selection (Systems Chemistry Emergence) of RNA

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  78. Nitrogenous Derivatives of Phosphorus and the Origins of Life: Plausible Prebiotic Phosphorylating Agents in Water

    Article • Life, July 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  79. Anchimeric‐Assisted Spontaneous Hydrolysis of Cyanohydrins Under Ambient Conditions: Implications for Cyanide‐Initiated Selective Transformations

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  80. Reaction of glycine with glyoxylate: Competing transaminations, aldol reactions, and decarboxylations

    Article • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  81. Giving Rise to Life: Transition from Prebiotic Chemistry to Protobiology

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  82. Investigations towards the Synthesis of 5-Amino-l-lyxofuranosides and 4-Amino-lyxopyranosides and NMR Analysis

    Article • SynOpen, March 2017, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  83. Prebiotic Organic Chemistry and Chemical pre-Biology: Speaking to the Synthetic Organic Chemists

    Article • Synlett, December 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  84. Nucleobase modification by an RNA enzyme

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  85. A Plausible Prebiotic Origin of Glyoxylate: Nonenzymatic Transamination Reactions of Glycine with Formaldehyde

    Article • Synlett, November 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  86. Mineral-Induced Enantioenrichment of Tartaric Acid

    Article • Synlett, November 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  87. The Abiotic Oxidation of Organic Acids to Malonate

    Article • Synlett, November 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  88. RNA–DNA Chimeras in the Context of an RNA World Transition to an RNA/DNA World

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  89. RNA–DNA Chimeras in the Context of an RNA World Transition to an RNA/DNA World

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  90. Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2016, Nature

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  91. pH‐controlled reaction divergence of decarboxylation versus fragmentation in reactions of dihydroxyfumarate with glyoxylate and formaldehyde: parallels to biological pathways

    Article • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  92. Kinetics of prebiotic depsipeptide formation from the ester–amide exchange reaction

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  93. Small molecule-mediated duplex formation of nucleic acids with ‘incompatible’ backbones

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  94. ChemInform Abstract: On the Emergence of RNA

    Article • ChemInform, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  95. Cover Picture: On the Emergence of RNA (Isr. J. Chem. 8/2015)

    Article • Israel Journal of Chemistry, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  96. Ester‐Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet–Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  97. Hydrogen-Bonding Complexes of 5-Azauracil and Uracil Derivatives in Organic Medium

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  98. Microwave‐Assisted Phosphitylation of DNA and RNA Nucleosides and Their Analogs

    Article • Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  99. On the Emergence of RNA

    Article • Israel Journal of Chemistry, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  100. Synthesis of orotidine by intramolecular nucleosidation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  101. Furanose

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  102. p-RNA

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  103. Synthesis of phosphoramidites of isoGNA, an isomer of glycerol nucleic acid

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2014, Beilstein Institut

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  104. Correction to “Production of Tartrates by Cyanide-Mediated Dimerization of Glyoxylate: A Potential Abiotic Pathway to the Citric Acid Cycle”

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  105. A Plausible Simultaneous Synthesis of Amino Acids and Simple Peptides on the Primordial Earth

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  106. Spontaneous Prebiotic Formation of a β-Ribofuranoside That Self-Assembles with a Complementary Heterocycle

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  107. RNA as an Emergent Entity: An Understanding Gained Through Studying its Nonfunctional Alternatives

    Article • Synlett, March 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  108. Microwave-assisted preparation of nucleoside-phosphoramidites

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  109. Furanose

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  110. p-RNA

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  111. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: The Pentulofuranosyl Oligonucleotide Systems: The (1′→3′)‐β‐L‐Ribulo, (4′→3′)‐α‐L‐Xylulo, and (1′→3′)‐α‐L‐Xylulo Nucleic Acids

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  112. Production of Tartrates by Cyanide-Mediated Dimerization of Glyoxylate: A Potential Abiotic Pathway to the Citric Acid Cycle

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  113. Correction to Role of pKa of Nucleobases in the Origins of Chemical Evolution

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  114. Base‐Pairing Properties of a Structural Isomer of Glycerol Nucleic Acid

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  115. The Origin of RNA and “My Grandfather’s Axe”

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  116. Role of pKa of Nucleobases in the Origins of Chemical Evolution

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, April 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  117. A Unified Mechanism for Abiotic Adenine and Purine Synthesis in Formamide

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  118. Exploratory Experiments on the Chemistry of the “Glyoxylate Scenario”: Formation of Ketosugars from Dihydroxyfumarate

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  119. Diastereoselective Self‐Condensation of Dihydroxyfumaric Acid in Water: Potential Route to Sugars

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  120. An expedient synthesis of l-ribulose and derivatives

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  121. Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: (3′→2′)‐D‐Phosphoglyceric Acid Linked Acyclic Oligonucleotides Tagged with 2,4‐Disubstituted 5‐Aminopyrimidines as Recognition Elements

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  122. p-RNA

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  123. Furanose

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  124. Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligo‐dipeptides Tagged with Orotic Acid Derivatives as Recognition Elements

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2009, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  125. The Structure of a TNA−TNA Complex in Solution: NMR Study of the Octamer Duplex Derived from α-(l)-Threofuranosyl-(3′-2′)-CGAATTCG

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  126. Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligodipeptides and Oligodipeptoids Tagged with Triazines as Recognition Elements

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  127. Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligodipeptides Tagged with 2,4‐Disubstituted 5‐Aminopyrimidines as Recognition Elements

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  128. Tautomerism in 5,8‐Diaza‐7,9‐dicarbaguanine (‘Alloguanine’)

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  129. Mannich-Type C-Nucleosidations with 7-Carba-purines and 4-Aminopyrimidines

    Article • Synlett, January 2005, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  130. Mannich-Type C-Nucleosidations in the 5,8-Diaza-7,9-dicarba-purine Family1

    Article • Organic Letters, September 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  131. Base‐Pairing Systems Related to TNA Containing Phosphoramidate Linkages: Synthesis of Building Blocks and Pairing Properties

    Article • Chemistry & Biodiversity, July 2004, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  132. Why Does TNA Cross‐Pair More Strongly with RNA Than with DNA? An Answer From X‐ray Analysis

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  133. Pentopyranosyl Oligonucleotide Systems. 9th Communication

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, December 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  134. 2,6-Diamino-5,8-diaza-7,9-dicarba-purine1

    Article • Organic Letters, May 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  135. C-Nucleosidations with 2,6-Diamino-5,8-diaza-7,9-dicarba-purine1

    Article • Organic Letters, May 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  136. Pentopyranosyl Oligonucleotide Systems. Communication No. 13

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, May 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  137. The α‐L‐Threofuranosyl‐(3′→2′)‐oligonucleotide System (‘TNA'): Synthesis and Pairing Properties

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  138. Crystal Structure of a B-Form DNA Duplex Containing (l)-α-Threofuranosyl (3‘→2‘) Nucleosides:  A Four-Carbon Sugar Is Easily Accommodated into the Backbone of DNA

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  139. 2,6-Diaminopurine in TNA:  Effect on Duplex Stabilities and on the Efficiency of Template-Controlled Ligations1

    Article • Organic Letters, March 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  140. Base-Pairing Systems Related to TNA:  α-Threofuranosyl Oligonucleotides Containing Phosphoramidate Linkages1

    Article • Organic Letters, March 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  141. Pentopyranosyl oligonucleotide systems. Part 11: systems with shortened backbones: (?)-β-ribopyranosyl-(4′→3′)- and (?)-α-lyxopyranosyl-(4′→3′)-oligonucleotides

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  142. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: The α-Threofuranosyl-(3'→2') Oligonucleotide System

    Article • Science, November 2000, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  143. Regioselective -Phosphorylation of Aldoses in Aqueous Solution

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2000, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  144. Regioselectiveα-Phosphorylation of Aldoses in Aqueous Solution

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2000, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  145. Regioselektive α-Phosphorylierung von Aldosen in wässriger Lösung

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2000, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  146. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: Comparing Pentopyranosyl-(2'→4') Oligonucleotides with RNA

    Article • Science, January 1999, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  147. Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  148. Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  149. Pyranosyl‐RNA (‘p‐RNA’): Base‐pairing selectivity and potential to replicate. Preliminary communication

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, November 1995, Wiley

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  150. Bis(tri-n-butylstannyl)benzopinacolate: Preparation and use as a mediator of intermolecular free radical reactions

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, December 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  151. 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 ester enolates

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  152. Synthesis of 6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-6-ones via dienone-phenol rearrangements of spiro[2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,1′(3′H)-isobenzofuran]-3′-ones

    Article • Tetrahedron, January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

  153. Stereoselective Free Radical Reactions at C(20) of Steroid Side Chains

    Article • Synlett, January 1991, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy