1. Commentary

   • Alan W. Schwartz

   Commentary Pages: 1 - 1

2. Radioactivity as a Significant Energy Source in Prebiotic Synthesis

   • León Garzón
   • M. Luisa Garzón

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. Experimental Shock Chemistry of Aqueous Amino Acid Solutions and the Cometary Delivery of Prebiotic Compounds

   • Jennifer G. Blank
   • Gregory H. Miller
   • Randall E. Winans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 51

4. Cyanide Self-Addition, Controlled Adsorption, and Other Processes at Layered Double Hydroxides

   • Joseph W. Boclair
   • Paul S. Braterman
   • Faith Yarberry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 69

5. The Sugar Model: Catalysis by Amines and Amino Acid Products

   • Arthur L. Weber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 86

6. Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleotides

   • Geoffrey Zubay
   • Timothy Mui

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 102

7. Lipid Formation by Aqueous Fischer-Tropsch-Type Synthesis over a Temperature Range of 100 to 400 °C

   • Ahmed I. Rushdi
   • Bernd R. T. Simoneit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 118

8. The Lipid World

   • Daniel Segré
   • Dafna Ben-Eli
   • Doron Lancet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 145

9. Nutrient Uptake by Protocells: A Liposome Model System

   • Pierre-Alain Monnard
   • David W. Deamer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 155

10. Interstellar Ices as a Source of CN-Bearing Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks

    • D. C. B. Whittet
    • E. L. Gibb
    • A. Nummelin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 165

11. Astronomical Sources of Circularly Polarized Light and the Origin of Homochirality

    • Jeremy Bailey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 183

12. Planetary Interchange of Bioactive Material: Probability Factors and Implications

    • Benton C. Clark

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 197

13. ESA Mission ROSETTA Will Probe for Chirality of Cometary Amino Acids

    • Wolfram H.-P. Thiemann
    • Uwe Meierhenrich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 210