Prebiotic Chemistry and Physics of Complex Systems

Prebiotic Evolution is the first step in the emergence of life; it encompasses all the natural physico-chemical processes that occur within a given planetary environment starting from its formation, up until the emergence of the first self-replicating systems on which the Darwinian Process can begin to operate. Three main problems are to be solved: (1) The abiotic origin of the important organic compounds (this subject is usually known as Prebiotic Chemistry), (2) the origin of the homoquirality of all the actual bioorganic compounds (its currently accepted that it is impossible to construct any self replicating systems using a mixture of enantiomeric compounds, this necessarily leads to its prebiotic origin) and (3) the supramolecular association of the complex molecules generated and vesicle formation. (4) Molecular self-asembly on surfaces.