Systems prebiotic chemistry has already committed several years of very fruitful work to discovering reactions and constructing networks. In addition, the contrasting kinetic behaviours of living and non-living systems can offer insights into the step-wise transition from non-life to life. The measurement of rate constants has accompanied this endeavor for some time, but only recently has it gained significant momentum. Rates and timescales themselves are useful for evaluating prebiotic scenarios, 2 however, rate constants allow for the application of models to assess the sensitivity of prebiotic scenarios to the environment.