Site-specific prebiotic oligomerization reactions of glycine on the surface of hectorite

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 373-377

  Porter, Timothy L ^a   Eastman, Michael P ^a   Hagerman, Michael E ^b   Price, Lance B ^a   Shand, Richard F ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycine oligomerization; Prebiotic peptide; Scanning force microscopy

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GLYCINE; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY;

COPPER; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; GLYCINE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PEPTIDES; SILICATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031716648     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006394     Document Type: Article

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