Stability of amino acids and their oligomerization under high-pressure conditions: Implications for prebiotic chemistry

Astrobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 799-813

  Otake, Tsubasa ^a   Taniguchi, Takashi ^b   Furukawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Kawamura, Fumio ^b   Nakazawa, Hiromoto ^b   Kakegawa, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deamination; Origin of life; Peptide formation; Pressure

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRESSURE; SEDIMENT;

ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLYCINE; HOT TEMPERATURE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POLYMERS; PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 80054870704     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.0637     Document Type: Article

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