1. Kaoru Harada, for the Love of Amino Acids

   • André Brack

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 83 - 90

2. A New Pathway to Aspartic Acid from Urea and Maleic Acid Affected by Ultraviolet Light

   • Masanori Terasaki
   • Shinya Nomoto
   • Akira Shimoyama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 98

3. Synthesis of Adenine from HCN Tetramer and Ammonium Formate

   • Aubrey Hill
   • Leslie E. Orgel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 102

4. D-Amino Acids in Living Higher Organisms

   • Noriko Fujii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 127

5. Asymmetric Photoreactions as the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality: A Critical Review

   • Alain Jorissen
   • Corinne Cerf

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 142

6. Relative Amino Acid Concentrations as a Signature for Parent Body Processes of Carbonaceous Chondrites

   • Oliver Botta
   • Daniel P. Glavin
   • Jeffrey L. Bada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 163

7. Dipeptides and Diketopiperazines in the Yamato-791198 and Murchison Carbonaceous Chondrites

   • Akira Shimoyama
   • Ryo Ogasawara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 179

8. Circular Polarization of Light by Planet Mercury and Enantiomorphism of its Surface Minerals

   • Uwe J. Meierhenrich
   • Wolfram H.-P. Thiemann
   • Ray Wolstencroft

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 190

9. In memoriam. J. Mayo Greenberg (1922–2001)

   • Gerda Horneck

   Legacy Pages: 191 - 192