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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id>ACSi</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Acta Chimica Slovenica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1318-0207</issn><issn publication-format="online-only">1580-3155</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Slovenian Chemical Society</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17344/acsi.2024.9098</article-id><article-categories><subj-group xml:lang="en_US" subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Physical chemistry</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Hydrothermal Scenario for Amino Acids and Sulfur-Containing Amino Acids Formation</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Slavova</surname><given-names>Sofia</given-names></name><aff>Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria</aff><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-3967</contrib-id><email>sslavova@svr.igic.bas.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Stoyanova</surname><given-names>Nina</given-names></name><email>n.stoyanova@svr.igic.bas.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Harizanova</surname><given-names>Sonya</given-names></name><email>sonya@svr.igic.bas.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Dincheva</surname><given-names>Ivayla</given-names></name><email>ivadincheva@yahoo.com</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rusanova</surname><given-names>Mila</given-names></name><email>milagradeva@abv.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ivanovska</surname><given-names>Sofiya</given-names></name><email>sofia@parallel.bas.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Enchev </surname><given-names>Venelin</given-names></name><email>venelin@svr.igic.bas.bg</email><role>Author</role><address><country>BG</country></address></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epublish"><year>2025</year><month>03</month><day>05</day></pub-date><volume>72</volume><issue>1</issue><self-uri content-type="application/pdf" xlink:href="9098/67c846f8bbde6.pdf" xlink:title="pdf">9098/67c846f8bbde6.pdf</self-uri><abstract><p>The chemical evolution of amino acids, especially sulfur-containing ones, requires appropriate conditions and natural sources to provide starting prebiotic compounds. In the present study hydrothermal vents, volcanoes and oceans were chosen as a plausible environment, where prebiotic reactions take place. The suggested reaction network starts only with three compounds &#x2013; water, hydrogen cyanide/formamide and hydrogen sulfide. The present study suggests one-pot hydrothermal experiment in laboratory conditions to demonstrate some vital prebiotic precursors formation. The reaction pathways from starting molecules to amino acids were modelled at SCS-MP2/cc-pVDZ/SMD level of the theory. The calculated energetic characteristics facilitate the determination of the plausible reaction pathways for amino acids &#x2013; glycine, serine and alanine, along with sulfur-containing ones &#x2013; cysteine and homocysteine under hydrothermal scenario.</p></abstract></article-meta></front></article>
