It seems to me that the natural laws that exist in our universe dictates how the chemistry will work. IOW life is possibly an emergent property of biochemistry.
There are some rather interesting takes on how creatures can extract energy and live. Such as zooxanthellae in corals, tube worms living near geothermal energy etc..
It seems to suggest that living on this particular planet with this particular gravity and in the goldilocks zone from a star is not the only way life can emerge and eventually evolve.
Life it seems will find a way. I heard that in a movie somewhere.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs