Minima vita approach

Figure 1. Artificial replicators and matrices (left to right and top to bottom) Rebek s distant nucleoside [6k-m] and v. Kiedrowski s amidinium-carboxylate [7f replicators Lehn s chiral organic [7g] and ele-mentorganic [7h] helicatcs v. Kiedrowski s 6a,b,d-g] and Orgel s [6c] "minimal self-replication systems Hoffmann s alienated nucleic acids [2f, 5c, 7b, lOe] and Luisi s minima-vita approach [5f,g, 8a-d] Eschenmoser s hexosc-nucleic-acids [15], compared with Olson-type R/DNAs and hypothetical nucleation dynamics of nucleoprotein systems [2f, 3k, 5c].

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