Carbon compounds research background

Fortunately, my graduate research in biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, involved studies on the mechanism of formic acid oxidation in animal tissues and on the incorporation of this one-carbon compound into nucleic acid components and their precursors. This provided me with experience in the use of isotopic tracers and the background in biochemical research which proved crucial, in later years, for unraveUng the intermediates and mechanisms of synthesis of purines and other compounds, when I discovered the prebiotic synthesis of adenine and other building blocks of nucleic acids, and a general pathway or method for the prebiotic formation of oligodeoxynucleotides and peptides. 

Propylene carbonate is produced via a reaction of C02 and propylene. It is a clear, colorless (when pure) liquid capable of dissolving a variety of organic and inorganic compounds. It has been recommended as especially suitable for electrochemistry because of its low background currents and resistance to oxidation.82,83 Both radical cations and anions are stable in the solvent. The solvent has been used widely in battery research.84... 

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