A robotic prebiotic chemist probes long term reactions of complexifying mixtures

oleh: Silke Asche, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Graham Keenan, Cole Mathis, Leroy Cronin

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01

Deskripsi

The transition of prebiotic chemistry to present-day chemistry lasted a very long period of time, but the current laboratory investigations of this process are mostly limited to a couple of days. Here, the authors develop a fully automated robotic prebiotic chemist designed for long-term chemical experiments exploring unconstrained multicomponent reactions, which can run autonomously and uses simple chemical inputs.