title: The TNA-family of nucleic acid systems: properties and prospects.
abstract: This report summarizes the content of the author's lecture given at the 9th ISSOL Conference on the 'Origin of Life' in Oaxaca on 2 July 2002*. The report consists of introductory remarks followed by a reproduction of the authentic sequence of slides shown during the lecture. Each slide figure is accompanied with a short commentary on the figure's content. The lecture dealt with the structure and the properties of TNA (alpha-threofuranosyl nucleic acid) and included results of some more recent chemical investigations that had been inspired by the simplicity of TNA's molecular architecture.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Hönggerberg HCI, Zürich, Switzerland. eschenmoser@org.chem.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eschenmoser
mesh_terms: D020029:Base Pairing; D001483:Base Sequence; D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D000069497:Origin of Life; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids