The evolving of life comes from the non-life matters, that is a big assumption. The article try to developed a different model that is based on the previous argument that thermodynamic process is involved the transformation of the evolution. His point is quite clear that the replication of chemistry is the driving force to cause the transformation.

It is an experimentally unproven theory only, that is all.

I did not read the manuscript and cannot comment on if his model is merely a simple chemical reaction or not.