L-amino acids catalyze the formation of an excess of D-glyceraldehyde, and thus of other D sugars, under credible prebiotic conditions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 5723-5725

  Breslow, Ronald ^a   Cheng, Zhan Ling ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldol reaction; Formaldehyde; Formose reaction; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUCOSE; GLYCERALDEHYDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSE; SUGAR; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; GLYCERALDEHYDE; METEOROIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77950541627     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001639107     Document Type: Article

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