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Organic chemistry of life

M. Calvin and W. A. Pryor, Eds., Organic Chemistry of Life, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1973. This volume contains a selected group of readings from Scientific American. [Pg.1285]

Many other groups of enzymes behave similarly they have evolved to take part in particular biochemical pathways, but they are sufficiently promiscuous that they will happily accept alternative substrates and provide chemically useful products from them. Enzymes are catalysts, like any other. In the next chapter, we take a more detailed look at those biochemical pathways and discuss the organic chemistry of life. [Pg.1133]

As we have seen in earlier chapters, carbonyl groups are essential components of many natural compounds, they are intrinsic to some important synthetic materials, such as nylon, and they are central to the organic chemistry of life, whether in the form of carbohydrates or DNA, or in key biochemical processes. [Pg.542]


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