En esta página recogemos las contribuciones del laboratorio y del IP en forma de artículos, participaciones en congresos y divulgación. Todas se pueden encontrar en internet, pero, en caso de dificultad, pueden contactar directamente con el autor.
Divulgación científica
Vida y habitabilidad de Encelado
Publicaciones científicas del grupo de investigación
Las publicaciones del laboratorio se pueden consultar en Google Scholar y ResearchGate
Ramal-Olmedo, J. C., Menor-Salván, C. A., Miyoshi, A., & Fortenberry, R. C. (2023). Possible Gas-Phase Synthesis of Neutral Malononitrile (C3H2N2) and Isocyanoacetonitrile (NCCH2NC) under the Upper Atmospheric Conditions of Titan. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7(9), 1694-1712.
Edri, R., Fisher, S., Menor‐Salvan, C., Williams, L. D., & Frenkel‐Pinter, M. (2023). Assembly‐driven protection from hydrolysis as key selective force during chemical evolution. FEBS letters, 597(23), 2879-2896.
Schaible, M. J., Castañeda, A. D., Menor‐Salvan, C., Pasek, M. A., Burcar, B. T., & Orlando, T. M. (2023). CaCO3 polymorphs as mineral catalysts for prebiotic phosphorylation of uridine. Earth and Space Science, 10(2), e2022EA002577.
Roche, T. P., Fialho, D. M., Menor‐Salván, C., Krishnamurthy, R., Schuster, G. B., & Hud, N. V. (2023). A Plausible Prebiotic Path to Nucleosides: Ribosides and Related Aldosides Generated from Ribulose, Fructose, and Similar Abiotic Precursors. Chemistry–A European Journal, e202203036.
Ramal-Olmedo, J. C., Menor-Salván, C. A., Miyoshi, A., & Fortenberry, R. C. (2023). Gas-phase molecular formation mechanisms of cyanamide (NH2CN) and its tautomer carbodiimide (HNCNH) under Sgr B2 (N) astrophysical conditions. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 672, A49.
Omran, A., Gonzalez, A., Menor-Salvan, C., Gaylor, M., Wang, J., Leszczynski, J., & Feng, T. (2023).Serpentinization-Associated Mineral Catalysis of the Protometabolic Formose System. Life, 13(6), 1297.
Menor‐Salván, C., Burcar, B. T., Bouza, M., Fialho, D. M., Fernández, F. M., & Hud, N. V. (2022). A shared prebiotic formation of neopterins and guanine nucleosides from pyrimidine bases. Chemistry–A European Journal, e202200714.
Burcar, B. T., & Menor-Salván, C. (2022). Prebiotic Chemistry of Nucleobases and Nucleotides. In Prebiotic Chemistry and Life’s Origin (pp. 215-268). M. Fiore (Ed.). Royal Society of Chemistry, London.
Ramal-Olmedo J.C., Menor-Salván C.A., Fortenberry, R.C. (2021) Mechanisms for gas-phase molecular formation of neutral formaldehyde (H2CO) in cold astrophysical regions. Astronomy & Astrophysics AA/2021/41646
Álvarez-Parra, S., Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peñalver, E., Barrón, E., Alcalá, L., Pérez-Cano, J., Menor-Salván, C. & Delclòs, X. (2021). Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil. Elife, 10, e72477.
Menor-Salván, C., Bouza, M., Fialho, D. M., Burcar, B. T., Fernández, F. M., & Hud, N. V. (2020). Prebiotic origin of pre-RNA building blocks in a urea “warm little pond” scenario. ChemBioChem, 21, 1-8.
Chukanov, N. V., Menor-Salvan, C., Gurzhiy, V. V., Izatulina, A. R., Pekov, I. V., Vigasina, M. F., … & Britvin, S. N. (2021). Biogenic Orthorhombic α-Calcium Formate from Sediments of Alkali Lake, Oregon, USA. Minerals, 11(5), 448.
Simoneit, B. R., Otto, A., Menor-Sálvan, C., Oros, D. R., Wilde, V., & Riegel, W. (2021). Composition of resinites from the Eocene Geiseltal brown coal basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and comparison to their possible botanical analogues. Organic Geochemistry, 152, 104138.
Burcar, B., Castañeda, A., Lago, J., Daniel, M., Pasek, M.A., Hud, N.V., Orlando, T.M., Menor-Salván, C. (2019) A stark contrast to modern Earth: Phosphate mineral transformation and nucleoside phosphorylation in an iron and cyanide-rich early Earth scenario. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2016. DOI 10.1002/anie.201606239
Menor-Salván C, From the Dawn of Organic Chemistry to Astrobiology: Urea as a Foundational Component in the Origin of Nucleobases and Nucleotides. In Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Series vol. 35 (2018) Springer International Publishing AG (Switzerland); 10.1007/978-3-319-93584-3_4.
Menor-Salván C, (Ed.). Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Series vol. 35 (2018) Springer International Publishing AG (Switzerland); 10.1007/978-3-319-93584-3.
Burcar, B., Pasek, M., Gull, M., Cafferty, B.J., Velasco,F., Hud, N.V., Menor-Salván, C. Darwin’s Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-based Solvent. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2016. DOI 10.1002/anie.201606239
Menor-Salván C, Simoneit BRT, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Alonso J. The molecular composition of Cretaceous ambers: Identification and chemosystematic relevance of 1,6-dimethyl-5-alkyltetralins and related bisnorlabdane biomarkers.. Organic Geochemistry 2016; 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.12.010.
Bonales LJ, Menor-Salván C, Cobos J. Study of the alteration products of a natural uraninite by Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Nuclear Materials 2015; DOI 10.1016/j-jnucmat.2015.04.017.
Tornos F., Velasco F., Menor-Salván C., Delgado A., Slack J.F., Escobar, J.M. Formation of recent Pb-Ag-Au mineralisation by major subsurface microbial activity. Nature Communications 2014; 5, 4600. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5600
Ibáñez de Aldecoa AL, Velasco F, Menor-Salván C. Natural pyrrhotite as catalyst in prebiotic chemical evolution. Life 2013; 3:502-517. DOI: 10.3390/life3030502
Menor-Salván C. La química del origen de la vida. Anales de Química. 2013; 109: 121-129.
Menor-Salván C, Roig Marín-Yaseli M. A new route for the prebiotic synthesis of nucleobases and hydantoins in water-ice solution involving the photochemistry of acetylene. Chemistry: A European Journal 2013; 19: 6488-6497. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201204313
de la Fuente JL, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Menor-Salvan C et al. Pyrolysis study of hydrophobic tholins by TG-MS, TG, DTA and DSC methods. Polymer Degradation and Stability 2013; 111: 1699-1706.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2013.01.033
Menor-Salván C, Roig Marín-Yaseli M. Prebiotic Chemistry in eutectic solutions at the water-ice matrix. Chemical Society Reviews 2012; 41: 5404-5415. DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35060B
Ruiz-Bermejo M, de la Fuente JL, Rogero C, Menor-Salvan C, Osuna Esteban S, Martín-Gago JA. New insights into the characterization of “insoluble black HCN polymers”. Chemistry and Biodiversity 2012; 9: 25-40.
Merinero R, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Menor-Salvan, C et al. Tracing organic compounds in aerobically altered methane-derived carbonate pipes (Gulf of Cadiz, SW Iberia). Sedimentary Geology 2012; 263: 174-162. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.09.011
de la Fuente JL, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Menor-Salvan C et al. Thermal characterization of HCN polymers by TG-MS, TG, DTA and DSC methods. Polymer Degradation and Stability 2011; 96: 943-948. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2011.01.033
Parro V, Fernández Remolar D et al. Classification of Modern and Old Rio Tinto Sedimentary Deposits Through the Biomolecular Record Using a Life Marker Biochip: Implications for Detecting Life on Mars. Astrobiology 2011; 11:29-U97. DOI: 10.1089/ast.2010.0510
Menor-Salván C, Najarro M, Velasco F, Rosales I, Tornos F, Simoneit BRT. Biological diterpenes preserved in Lower Cretaceous amber from Basque-Cantabrian basin (El Soplao, Cantabria, Spain). Paleochemotaxonomical aspects. Organic Geochemistry 2010; 41: 1089-1103.
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.06.013
Menor-Salván C, Tornos F, Fernández Remolar D, Amils R. Association between catastrophic paleovegetation changes during Devonian-Carboniferous boundary and the formation of giant massive sulfide deposits. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2010; 299: 398-408.
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.020
Najarro M, Peñalver E, Perez-De la Fuente R, Ortega Blanco J, Menor-Salván C et al. Review of the El Soplao amber outcrop, Early Cretaceous of Cantabria, Spain. Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition 2010; 84: 959-976. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00258.x
Ruiz-Bermejo M, Menor-Salván C, de la Fuente JL, Mateo-Martí E, Osuna-Esteban S, Martín-Gago JA, Veintemillas-Verdaguer S. CH4/N2/H2 spark tholins from aqueous aerosols: A systematic approach to the tholins characterization part II. Icarus 2009; 204: 672-680. DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.001
Menor-Salván C, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Guzmán M, Osuna-Esteban S, Veintemillas-Verdaguer S. Synthesis of pyrimidines and triazines in ice: implications for the prebiotic chemistry of nucleobases. Chemistry-A European Journal 2009; 15: 4411-4418. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200802656
Ruiz-Bermejo M, Rogero C, Menor-Salván C, Osuna-Esteban S, Veintemillas-Verdaguer S. Thermal wet decomposition of Prussian Blue: implications for Prebiotic Chemistry. Chemistry and Biodiversity 2009; 6: 1309-1322. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200900024
Coustenis A et al. TandEM: Titan and Enceladus Mission. Experimental Astronomy 2009; 23: 893-946. DOI: 10.1007/s10686-008-9103-z
Prado-Herrero P,, Garcia-Guinea J., Crespo-Feo E., Correcher, V., Menor-Salván, C. First find of Kristiansenite in Spain: Comparison with the type specimen by non-descriptive techniques. Estudios Geológicos 2009; 19 (2): 135-139
Menor-Salván C, Tornos F, Ruiz-Bermejo M. Biomarkers preserved in fluid inclusions in quartz from the Berbes fluorite deposit (N Spain) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2008; 72: 620.
Osuna-Esteban S, Zorzano MP, Menor-Salván C, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Veintemillas-Verdaguer S. Asymmetric chiral growth of micron-size NaClO(3) crystals in water aerosols. Physical Review Letters 2008; 100: 14. DOI: 146102 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.146102
Ruiz-Bermejo M, Menor-Salván C, Mateo-Martí E, Osuna-Esteban S, Martín-Gago JA, Veintemillas-Verdaguer S. CH4/N2/H2 spark tholins from aqueous aerosols (A systematic approach to the tholins characterization). Icarus 2008; 198: 232-241. DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.008.
Menor-Salván C, Ruiz-Bermejo M, Osuna-Esteban S, Muñoz-Caro G, Veintenillas-Verdaguer S. Abiotic synthesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aqueous environment: a new prebiotic scenario. Chemistry and Biodiversity. 2008; 12:2729-2739. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200890228
Pla-García, J. and Menor-Salván, C. (2017) ‘La Composición Química de la Atmósfera Primitiva del Planeta Tierra’, Anales de Química, 113(1), pp. 16–26. Available at: http://analesdequimica.es/index.php/AnalesQuimica/article/viewFile/940/1289.
