Unusual Kinetic Pathway for the Prebiotic Oligomerization of Ribonucleic Acids Explains the Monochirality of the Polyribotides

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 423-428

  Lins, Roberto Dias ^a   Soares, Thereza Amélia ^a   Ferreira, Ricardo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Monochirality; Polyribotides; Prebiotic oligomerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008852858     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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