Ammonia from iron(II) reduction of nitrite and the strecker synthesis: Do iron(II) and cyanide interfere with each other?

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Summers, David P ^a   Lerner, Narcinda ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FERROUS ION; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCINE; NITRITE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; BIOGENESIS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCINE; NITRITES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE;

EID: 0031990301     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006510326053     Document Type: Article

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