Nitrogen Heterocycles in Miller-Urey Spark-Discharge Mixtures: Using Chemical Trends to Elucidate Plausible Pre-RNAs on the Early Earth
Abstract
We incubated 53 nitrogen heterocycles with spark-discharge mixtures and found that they react with only a handful of nitriles to yield adducts that may polymerize. Whether these adducts can form a monomer of Peptide Nucleic Acid was investigated.
- Publication:
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XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life
- Pub Date:
- July 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017LPICo1967.4144R