Aminoacyl mercaptans

The importance of the thioesters was realized at the beginning of the 1950s by Theodor Wieland from the University of Frankfurt am Main (Wieland and Pflei-derer, 1957), who used aminoacyl mercaptans as activated amino acids in peptide syntheses (see Sect. 5.3). Thus, 30 years later, this area of basic research came to be useful for prebiotic chemistry. 

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