Guanine, adenine, and hypoxanthine production in UV-irradiated formamide solutions: Relaxation of the requirements for prebiotic purine nucleobase formation

ChemBioChem

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Barks, Hannah L ^a   Buckley, Ragan ^a   Grieves, Gregory A ^a   Di Mauro, Ernesto ^b   Hud, Nicholas V ^a   Orlando, Thomas M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Formamide; Nitrogen heterocycles; Photochemistry; Prebiotic syntheses; Purines

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; FORMAMIDE; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PURINE; FORMAMIDE DERIVATIVE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADENINE; FORMAMIDES; GUANINE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPOXANTHINE; PREBIOTICS; PURINE NUCLEOSIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77953470391     PISSN: 14394227     EISSN: 14397633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000074     Document Type: Article

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