A common intermediate for prebiotic synthesis of proteins and nucleosides: A density functional theory (DFT) study on the formation of penta-coordinate phosphorus carboxylic-phosphoric mixed anhydride from N-phosphoryl amino acids

Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM

Volumn 672, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 51-60

  Tan, Bo ^a,d   Lee, Matthew C ^b   Cui, Meng ^c   Liu, Tong ^c   Chen, Zhong Zhou ^a   Li, Yan Mei ^a   Ju, Yong ^a   Zhao, Yu Fen ^a   Chen, Kaixian ^c   Jiang, Hualiang ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intramolecular mixed carboxylic phosphoric anhydride; N phosphoryl amino acids; Origins of life

Indexed keywords

ESTER; NUCLEOSIDE; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 10744225952     PISSN: 01661280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2003.11.007     Document Type: Article

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