Maheen Gull
Senior Research Scientist
Contact
SCA 514
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Website: https://www.maheengull.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Jilin University
RESEARCH
Specialty areas
Origins of Life, Geochemistry, Prebiotic Chemistry, Mineral/clay catalysis, Exobiology
PUBLICATIONS
Gull, M et al. Catalytic Prebiotic Syntheses of Glycerol and its Phosphorylated Derivatives and their Potential Significance in the origin of Life. Catalysts 2021, 11, 86.
Gull, M et al. Catalytic prebiotic formation of the phosphate esters of glycerol, estimation of their decomposition rates and its implications in the origin & cell membranes on the early Earth. Catalysts, 2021.
Tian, F.; Gull, M.; Pasek, M.A. The evolution of ephemeral phosphate minerals on planetary environments. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5, 1647-1656.
Gull, M. et al. Silicate-, magnesium sulphate-, and urea-induced prebiotic phosphorylation of uridine via pyrophosphate; revisiting the drying water pool scenario. Life 2020, 10, 122.
Pasek, M. A.; Gull, M.; Herschy, B. Origin of life on the early Earth. Chemical Geology 2017, 475, 149-170.
Gull, M.; Cafferty, B.; Hud, N. V.; Pasek, M. A. Silicate-promoted phosphorylation of glycerol in non-aqueous solvents: a prebiotically plausible route to organophosphates. Life 2017, 7(3), 29.
Burcar, B.; Pasek, M. A.; Gull, M. et al. 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 International Edition 2016, 55, 13249.
Cruz, N. L.; Qasim, D.; Abbott-Lyon, H.; Pirim, C.; McKee, A. D.; Orlando, T.; Gull, M. et al. The evolution of the surface of the mineral schreibersite in prebiotic chemistry. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 20160-20167.
Gull, M. et. al. Nucleoside phosphorylation by the mineral schreibersite. Scientific Reports 2015, 5, Article number: 17198.
Gull, M. Prebiotic Phosphorylation Reactions on the Early Earth, Challenges 2014, 2, 193-212.
Gull, M. et. al. Prebiotic Phosphate Ester Syntheses in a Deep Eutectic Solvent. J. Mol. Evol. 2014, 78, 109-117.
Gull, M.; Pasek, M. A. Is struvite a prebiotic mineral? Life 2013, 3, 321-330. IF=2.99
Pasek, M.A.; Harnmeijer, J.; Buick, R.; Gull, M.; Atlas, Z. Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 2013, 110, 10089-10094.
Gull, M. et. al. Resolving the Enigma of Prebiotic C-O-P Bond Formation: Prebiotic hydrothermal synthesis of important biological phosphate esters” Heteroatom Chemistry 2010, 21, 161-167.
Gull, M. et. al. A Novel Synthetic Route to Synthesize 2,4,8,10-Tetraoxaspiro [5.5]-Undecane from Formaldehyde under Hydrothermal Conditions” Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2010 Volume 47, 483-485.
Janjua, M. R. S. A.; Su, Z-M.; Guan, w.; Liu, C-G.; Yan, L-K.; Song, P.; Gull, M. Tuning second-Order non-linear (NLO) optical response of organoimido-substituted hexamolybdates through halogens: Quantum Design of Novel Organic-Inorganic Hybrid NLO Materials” Aust J Chem 2010 63, 836–844.
Gull, M. et. al. Mimicking the Prebiotic Acidic Hydrothermal Environment: One Pot Prebiotic Hydrothermal Synthesis of Glucose Phosphates. Heteroatom Chemistry 2011, 22, issue 2, 186-191.