Aspects of this do-nothing approach have already been applied to prebiotic chemistry and have found surprising success. In fact, there are several instances where reduced control over the experimental setup, coupled with broader mimicking of "messier" geochemical conditions, has resulted in more successful chemistry, yielding the desired products or exhibiting the desired behaviour. The use of initial chemical conditions informed by the geochemistry of a specific environment has resulted in chemical syntheses with higher yields and better selectivity. Notable examples include chemical pathways involving both sulfite and ferrocyanide. The integration of common mineral compositions and surface properties has led to new discoveries, such as the catalytic synthesis of amino acids from Krebs cycle intermediates, 43 and the formation of enantiomerically pure RNA precursors from racemic mixtures. Mineral surfaces have also proven to be better templates for RNA polymerisation when compared to artificial surfaces. Moreover, wet-dry cycles that do not completely dry, such as would occur at water-rock interfaces, turn out to be far more productive. Additionally, ultraviolet (UV) light can act to "tidy" the chemistry by selecting for nucleotides that are photostable and can be photochemically repaired; these turn out to be the nucleotides life uses. In addition, models suggest that phase equilibrium between gas-phase carbon and graphite can also simplify and order magma chemistry such that it looks astonishingly like laboratory reactant mixtures for prebiotic chemistry experiments. Based on these findings, it seems that in the right settings nature is far better at prebiotic chemistry than the trained organic chemist.