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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 theproperties of TNA (α-threofuranosyl nucleic acid) and included results of some more recent chemical investigations that had been inspired by the simplicity of TNA's molecular architecture.
Similar slide-reports of lectures given by the author at earlier ISSOL Conferences were previously published in this journal: ‘Chemistry of Potentially Prebiological Nature Products’, lecture presented at the 7th ISSOL Conference in Barcelona (Eschenmoser, 1994); `Towards a Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure', lecture presented at the 8th ISSOL Conference in Orléans (Eschenmoser, 1997); the content of thelecture `Pentopyranosyl Nucleic Acids', presented at the 9thISSOL Conference in San Diego (11–16 July 1999) is containedin publications that have appeared in the journals Chem. and Biol. (Bolli et al., 1997) and Science (Beier et al., 1999).
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Eschenmoser, A. The TNA-Family of Nucleic Acid Systems: Properties and Prospects. Orig Life Evol Biosph 34, 277–306 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ORIG.0000016450.59665.f4
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