| A mild hydrothermal route to fix carbon dioxide to simple carboxylic acids C He, G Tian, Z Liu, S Feng Organic letters 12 (4), 649-651, 2010 | 134 | 2010 |
| Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetic surface SF Ozturk, Z Liu, JD Sutherland, DD Sasselov Science advances 9 (23), eadg8274, 2023 | 104 | 2023 |
| Mapping a systematic ribozyme fitness landscape reveals a frustrated evolutionary network for self-aminoacylating RNA AD Pressman, Z Liu, E Janzen, C Blanco, UF Müller, GF Joyce, R Pascal, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (15), 6213-6223, 2019 | 102 | 2019 |
| Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks Z Liu, LF Wu, J Xu, C Bonfio, DA Russell, JD Sutherland Nature chemistry 12 (11), 1023-1028, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| High adsorption capacity for dye removal by CuZn hydroxyl double salts S Zhu, S Jiao, Z Liu, G Pang, S Feng Environmental science: nano 1 (2), 172-180, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| How prebiotic chemistry and early life chose phosphate Z Liu, JC Rossi, R Pascal Life 9 (1), 26, 2019 | 69 | 2019 |
| Prebiotic photoredox synthesis from carbon dioxide and sulfite Z Liu, LF Wu, C Kufner, DD Sasselov, W Fischer, J Sutherland Nature Chemistry 13 (11), 1126–1132, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
| Interstrand aminoacyl transfer in a tRNA acceptor stem-overhang mimic LF Wu, M Su, Z Liu, SJ Bjork, JD Sutherland Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (30), 11836-11842, 2021 | 48 | 2021 |
| Encapsulation of ribozymes inside model protocells leads to faster evolutionary adaptation YC Lai, Z Liu, IA Chen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (21), e2025054118, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
| Evolutionary importance of the intramolecular pathways of hydrolysis of phosphate ester mixed anhydrides with amino acids and peptides Z Liu, D Beaufils, JC Rossi, R Pascal Scientific reports 4 (1), 7440, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Potentially prebiotic synthesis of aminoacyl-RNA via a bridging phosphoramidate-ester intermediate SJ Roberts, Z Liu, JD Sutherland Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (9), 4254-4259, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
| Hydrothermal synthesis of 1-butanol from ethanol catalyzed with commercial cobalt powder X Zhang, Z Liu, X Xu, H Yue, G Tian, S Feng ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 1 (12), 1493-1497, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Prebiotic photochemical coproduction of purine ribo-and deoxyribonucleosides J Xu, NJ Green, DA Russell, Z Liu, JD Sutherland Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (36), 14482-14486, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Hydrothermal reactions from carbon dioxide to phenol G Tian, C He, Y Chen, HM Yuan, ZW Liu, Z Shi, SH Feng ChemSusChem: Chemistry & Sustainability Energy & Materials 3 (3), 323-324, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Mixed Anhydride Intermediates in the Reaction of 5 (4H)‐Oxazolones with Phosphate Esters and Nucleotides Z Liu, L Rigger, JC Rossi, JD Sutherland, R Pascal Chemistry-A European Journal 22 (42), 14940–14949, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Emergent properties as by-products of prebiotic evolution of aminoacylation ribozymes E Janzen, Y Shen, A Vázquez-Salazar, Z Liu, C Blanco, J Kenchel, ... Nature Communications 13 (1), 3631, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| The activation of free dipeptides promoted by strong activating agents in water does not yield diketopiperazines D Beaufils, S Jepaul, Z Liu, L Boiteau, R Pascal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 46 (1), 19-30, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Ready hydrothermal reactions from carbon dioxide to methane Z Liu, G Tian, S Zhu, C He, H Yue, S Feng ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 1 (3), 313-315, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| Triplet-encoded prebiotic RNA aminoacylation M Su, C Schmitt, Z Liu, SJ Roberts, KC Liu, K Roder, A Jäschke, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (29), 15971-15980, 2023 | 21 | 2023 |
| Template-free assembly of functional RNAs by loop-closing ligation LF Wu, Z Liu, SJ Roberts, M Su, JW Szostak, JD Sutherland Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (30), 13920-13927, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
Robert PASCALAix-Marseille UniversitéVerified email at univ-amu.fr
