Saskia Lamour
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
5 Papers
Saskia Lamour is an academic researcher from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Formose reaction & Monosaccharide. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications. Previous affiliations of Saskia Lamour include Max Planck Society.
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Papers
Mineral-mediated carbohydrate synthesis by mechanical forces in a primordial geochemical setting
Maren Haas,Maren Haas,Saskia Lamour,Sarah Babette Christ,Oliver Trapp,Oliver Trapp +5 more
- 16 Oct 2020
TL;DR: A range of minerals thought to have existed in the Hadean environment are shown to bias the product distribution of mechanochemical carbohydrate synthesis towards pentoses and hexoses, offering a water-free and robust pathway for monosaccharides independent of the external conditions both for the early Earth or an extra-terrestrial setting.
Prebiotic Sugar Formation Under Nonaqueous Conditions and Mechanochemical Acceleration
TL;DR: The results imply the possibility of a prebiotic monosaccharide origin in geochemical environments scant or devoid of water promoted by mechanochemical forces such as meteorite impacts or lithospheric activity.
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Development of an advanced derivatization protocol for the unambiguous identification of monosaccharides in complex mixtures by gas and liquid chromatography.
TL;DR: A protocol for the unambiguous identification and separation of aldoses, ketoses, alditols and aldonic acids, which commonly occur in complex sugar mixtures as reaction by-products or decomposition products is developed.
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Schreibersite: an effective catalyst in the formose reaction network
Sebastian Pallmann,Jana Steflova,Maren Haas,Saskia Lamour,Saskia Lamour,A Henß,Oliver Trapp,Oliver Trapp +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of the meteoritic material schreibersite to catalyze the generation of higher sugars from simple carbohydrates in the formose reaction network was investigated and the results of the study presented one of the first instances of connecting extraterrestrial material to prebiotic chemistry on the early earth.
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In Situ Mass Spectrometric and Kinetic Investigations of Soai's Asymmetric Autocatalysis
Oliver Trapp,Oliver Trapp,Saskia Lamour,Saskia Lamour,Frank Maier,Alexander F. Siegle,Kerstin Zawatzky,Bernd F. Straub +7 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a mechanism that explains the autocatalytic amplification involving hemiacetal complexes, and insights into the privileged properties of the pyrimidyl units and the formation of diastereomeric structures leading to an efficient amplification of even minimal enantiomeric excesses, respectively.