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Jun 1995
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Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Volume 25, Issue 1-3, pp. 119-140
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Hydrothermal systems are common along the active tectonic areas of the earth. Potential sites being studied for organic matter alteration and possible organic synthesis are spreading ridges, off-axis systems, back-arc activity, hot spots, volcanism, and subduction. Organic matter alteration, primarily reductive and generally from immature organic detritus, occurs in these high temperature and rapid fluid flow hydrothermal regimes. Hot circulating water (temperature range — warm to >400 °C) is responsible for these molecular alterations, expuslion and migration. Compounds that are obviously synthesized are minor components because they are generally masked by the pyrolysis products formed from contemporary natural organic precursors. Heterocyclic sulfur compounds have been identified in high temperature zones and hydrothermal petroleums of the Guaymas Basin vent systems. They can be interpreted as being synthesized from formaldehyde and sulfur or HS{x/-} in the hydrothermal fluids. Other products from potential synthesis reactions have not yet been found in the natural systems but are expected based on known industrial processes and inferences from experimental simulation data. Various industrial processes have been reviewed and are of relevance to hydrothermal synthesis of organic compounds. The reactivity of organic compounds in hot water (200 350 °C) has been studied in autoclaves, and supercritical water as a medium for chemistry has also been evaluated. This high temperature aqueous organic chemistry and the strong reducing conditions of the natural systems suggest this as an important route to produce organic compounds on the primitive earth. Thus a better understanding of the potential syntheses of organic compounds in hydrothermal systems will require investigations of the chemistry of condensation, autocatalysis, catalysis and hydrolysis reactions in aqueous mineral buffered systems over a range of temperatures from warm to >400 °C.
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