Phosphate-mediated interconversion of Ribo- and Arabino-configured prebiotic nucleotide intermediates

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 4641-4643

  Powner, Matthew W ^a   Sutherland, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirality; Homogeneous catalysis; Nucleotides; Phosphate; Prebiotic chemistry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; ENANTIOPURE; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS; INORGANIC PHOSPHATES; INTERCONVERSIONS; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY; PREBIOTICS; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; STEREOINVERSION;

CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; REACTION KINETICS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

NUCLEOTIDES;

NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PYRIMIDINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES; PREBIOTICS; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 77953942525     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201001662     Document Type: Article

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