Mechanism of Synthesis of Adenine from Hydrogen Cyanide under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions
Abstract
IT has recently been shown that adenine and the purine precursors 4-aminoimidazole-5-carboxamidine and formamidine are formed spontaneously from hydrogen cyanide in water-ammonia systems under conditions assumed to have existed on the primitive Earth1.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- September 1961
- DOI:
- 10.1038/1911193a0
- Bibcode:
- 1961Natur.191.1193O