Inside Cover: Mixed Anhydride Intermediates in the Reaction of 5(4H)-Oxazolones with Phosphate Esters and Nucleotides (Chem. Eur. J. 42/2016)

The complementarity of nucleotides and peptides is considered as one of the prerequisites for the origin of life. The traditional chinese sentence is reproduced from the sequence of the hexagrams: “After the sky and the earth existed, all things came into being.” Background picture adapted from http://wccftech.com/earthlight‐unreal‐4‐space‐exploration‐game‐oculus‐rift‐kinect‐2/ available under Creative Commons CC BY‐NC‐SA 3.0 license. More information can be found in the Full Paper by R. Pascal et al. on page 14940 ff.