title: Chemistry of the interstellar medium--an evolutionary dead end?
abstract: An analysis of the experimental data available and of the present theoretical concepts shows that even the initial physicochemical chemical precellular stages of biological evolution are impossible in the interstellar medium, while biomonomers possibly formed on asteroids and comets might have participated after transportation to the Earth in the final stages of the origin of the first precellular biological structures and then in the first living cells.
authors.affiliation: Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Nussinov
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Burdyuzha
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Gleizer
mesh_terms: D000538:Aluminum Silicates / Q000737:chemistry*; D001546:Bentonite / Q000737:chemistry; D001704:Biopolymers / Q000096:biosynthesis; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D000077215:Clay; D019443:Cosmic Dust; D004602:Elements; D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D000069497:Origin of Life; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D000538:Aluminum Silicates; D001704:Biopolymers; D019443:Cosmic Dust; D004602:Elements; D014867:Water; D001546:Bentonite; D002244:Carbon; D000077215:Clay