Chemical evolution: The mechanism of the formation of adenine under prebiotic conditions

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

Volumn 104, Issue 44, 2007, Pages 17272-17277

  Roy, Debjani ^a   Najafian, Katayoun ^b   Von Schleyer, Paul Ragué ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; DNA; Gas phase model; Reaction mechanism; RNA

Indexed keywords

ADENINE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962360135     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708434104     Document Type: Article

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