Question 1: commentary referring to the statement "the origin of life can be traced back to the origin of kinetic control" and the question "do you agree with this statement; and how would you envisage the prebiotic evolutionary bridge between thermodynamic and kinetic control?" stated in section 1.1.
The paper summarizes thoughts induced by some of the programmatic questions Pier Luigi Luisi posed for discussion at the Erice workshop.
Eschenmoser
Albert
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Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Hoenggerberg HCI H309, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. eschenmoser@org.chem.ethz.ch
D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D000069497:Origin of Life; D013816:Thermodynamics