Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites

@article{Oba2022IdentifyingTW,
  title={Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites},
  author={Yasuhiro Oba and Yoshinori Takano and Yoshihiro Furukawa and Toshiki Koga and Daniel P. Glavin and Jason P. Dworkin and Hiroshi Naraoka},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2022},
  volume={13}
}
The lack of pyrimidine diversity in meteorites remains a mystery since prebiotic chemical models and laboratory experiments have predicted that these compounds can also be produced from chemical precursors found in meteorites. Here we report the detection of nucleobases in three carbonaceous meteorites using state-of-the-art analytical techniques optimized for small-scale quantification of nucleobases down to the range of parts per trillion (ppt). In addition to previously detected purine… 
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