The Beginning of Systems Chemistry.

Life (Basel)

Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires (Unité Mixte de Recherche 5246), Université de Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 bvd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.

Published: January 2019

Systems Chemistry has its roots in the research on the autocatalytic self-replication of biological macromolecules, first of all of synthetic deoxyribonucleic acids. A personal tour through the early works of the founder of Systems Chemistry, and of his first followers, recalls what's most important in this new era of chemistry: the growth and evolution of compartmented macromolecular populations, when provided with "food" and "fuel" and disposed of "waste".

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463181PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life9010011DOI Listing

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