Synthesis and degradation of nucleic acid components by formamide and iron sulfur minerals

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 15512-15518

  Saladino, Raffaele ^a   Neri, Veronica ^a   Crestini, Claudia ^b   Costanzo, Giovanna ^c   Graciotti, Michele ^d   Di Mauro, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; AMIDES; COPPER; DEGRADATION; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; RNA; UREA;

AMINOPURINE; CARBODIIMIDE; INFORMATIONAL POLYMERS; ISOCYTOSINE; NATURAL NUCLEOBASES; ONE POTS; OXALIC ACIDS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS OF;

SULFUR;

1H PYRIMIDINONE; 2 AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; CYANAMIDE; FORMAMIDE; IRON COPPER SULFUR; IRON SULFUR; ISOCYTOSINE; MINERAL; NUCLEIC ACID; OXALIC ACID; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PURINE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYST SUPPORT; CHEMICAL REACTION; FLOW KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ANALYSIS; WATSON CRICK REACTION;

CATALYSIS; COPPER; ESTERS; FORMAMIDES; IRON; MINERALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SULFUR; WATER;

EID: 56449090629     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja804782e     Document Type: Article

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