Montmorillonite prebiotic systems

Alternative routes for the prebiotic synthesis of oligo- and polypeptides in aqueous systems, at relatively low temperatures, may well have involved activated monomers like oc-amino nitriles, a-amino amides or amino acyl adenylates. Interesting results were obtained earlier with the first two types of compounds in our laboratory and other laboratories. More recently the amino acyl adenylates, in the presence of montmorillonite and at pH... 

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