Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments

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

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 15614-15619

  Pizzarello, Sandra ^a   Davidowski, Stephen K ^a   Holland, Gregory P ^a   Williams, Lynda B ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonaceous chondrites; Extraterrestrial organic materials

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; POLYETHER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; DEMINERALIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEORISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE; SOLUBILIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84884631956     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309113110     Document Type: Article

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