An inquiry into the selective protection of glycine during the radiolysis of glycine-alanine mixtures in aqueous solutions and its implications to the preservation of optically active amino acids in the early earth

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-100

  Navarro González, Rafael ^a   Akaboshi, Mitsuhko ^b   Romero, Alfredo ^a   Ponnamperuma, Cyril ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Alanine; Amino acids; Chirality; Glycine; Ionizing radiation; Kinetics; Primitive hydrosphere; Racemization; Radiolysis; Radioracemization

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444513656     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00954457     Document Type: Article

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