Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Chemical Evolution of Simple Amino Acids to Asparagine under Discharge onto the Primitive Hydrosphere: Simulation Experiments Using Contact Glow Discharge

T Munegumi

Index: Munegumi, Toratane; Shimoyama, Akira; Harada, Kaoru Chemistry Letters, 1997 , # 5 p. 393 - 394

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Abstract

Asparagine is an important amino acid for abiotic polypeptide synthesis. In simulation experiments, it was obtained in 3.0% yield (based on the amount of consumed alanine) from alanine (100 mM) and formamide (200 mM) by contact glow discharge (Harada discharge)

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