Problems of Biosphere Origin & Evolution

Preface; Concept of Sustained Ordering & ATP-Related Mechanism of Life Origin; Molecules & Life; Prebiotic Evolution of Macromolecules. World of Peptides; Computer Simulation of the Evolution of the Genetic Code; Photochemistry of Coenzymes as A Field of Evolution Studies; Computational Study of Possible Mechanisms of Adenine Synthesis; Insulation & Concentration of Adenosine Triphosphate under Prebiotic Conditions: Hypothesis & Experimental Data; Synthesis of Adenine under Pulsed Discharge in the Gas Phase; Peculiarities Associated with the Biogenic Formation of Mineral Phosphorous Compounds by Microorganisms at Different Stages of their Evolution; Role of Impact Processes in the Abiogenic Synthesis of Organic Compounds at the Early Stages of Earth Formation; Prebiotic Synthesis of Biologically Significant Compounds under the Action of Cosmic Energy Sources; Luminescence Detection & Study of Tightly Bound Stacking Aggregates of Nitrogen Bases of Nucleic Acids, Nucleosides, & Nucleotides in Water & on the Quartz Surface as Candidates for the First Genetic Templates; Chemical Intermediates in the Photomodels of ATP Synthesis; Optical & Photoelectrochemical Properties of Natural Photosynthetic Pigments & Porphyrins: Role of Hydrogen Peroxide; Mutual Transformations of 2 & 2 2 upon Irradiation of Air-Saturated Suspensions Chlorophyll/Silica/Water; Photocatalytic Properties of Porphyrins in Dependence on the Nature of the Central Metal Atom; Current Status of the Problem of the Origin of the EarthMoon System; From the Protosolar Cloud to the Planetary System: A Model for the Evolution of the Gas-Dust Disk; Some Models for the Protoplanetary Disk of the Sun at the Initial Stage of its Evolution; Development of Algorithms for Computing the Collisional Dynamics of Gravitating Particles to Simulate the Formation of the Earth-Moon System through the Gravitational Collapse of a Dust Cloud; Index.