A Global Scale Scenario for Prebiotic Chemistry: Silica-Based Self-Assembled Mineral Structures and Formamide.
Saladino R, Botta G, Bizzarri BM, Di Mauro E, Garcia Ruiz JM.
Saladino R, et al.
Biochemistry. 2016 May 17;55(19):2806-11. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00255. Epub 2016 May 2.
Biochemistry. 2016.
PMID: 27115539
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Among one-carbon compounds, formamide (NH2CHO) has been shown to trigger the formation of complex prebiotic molecules under mineral-driven catalytic conditions (Saladino, R., et al. (2001) Biorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 9, 1249-1253), proton irradiation (Sa …
Among one-carbon compounds, formamide (NH2CHO) has been shown to trigger the formation of complex prebiotic molecules under mineral-driven c …