Reactive oxygen species at the oxidewater interface Formation mechanisms and implications for prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life》.pdf

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 363 (2013) 156–167 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal homepage: /locate/epsl Reactive oxygen species at the oxide/water interface: Formation mechanisms and implications for prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life a,b,c,n b,d,e,nn f g,h Jie Xu , Nita Sahai , Carrick M. Eggleston , Martin A.A. Schoonen a Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA b NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA c Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, 2029 G St. N.W., Washington, DC 20052, USA d Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA e NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Akron, OH 44325, USA f Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA g Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, NY 11794, USA h Astrobiology Biogeocatalysis Research Center, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The goal of our study is to identify free radical formation pathways on mineral surfaces. Organic Received 17 June 2012 molecules on early Earth might have been modified or decomposed by such pathways, thus affecting Received in revised form the total organic inventory for prebiotic synthesis reactions. Specifically, we evaluated