Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 54, Issue 34, 2015, Pages 9871-9875

  Forsythe, Jay G ^a,b   Yu, Sheng Sheng ^a,c   Mamajanov, Irena ^a,b   Grover, Martha A ^a,c   Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan ^a,d   Fernández, Facundo M ^a,b   Hud, Nicholas V ^a,b  

^a NSF NASA Center for Chemical Evolution   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical evolution; day night cycle; depsipeptides; origins of life; proto peptides

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL BONDS; PEPTIDES;

ALPHA HYDROXY ACIDS; ALPHA-AMINO ACIDS; AMIDE BOND FORMATION; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; DAY-NIGHT CYCLE; DEPSIPEPTIDES; ORIGINS-OF-LIFE; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS;

ESTERS;

AMIDE; ESTER; PEPTIDE; WATER;

ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; WETTABILITY;

AMIDES; EARTH (PLANET); ESTERS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDES; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84938969526     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503792     Document Type: Article

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