ArticleOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life1996
Potentially prebiotic syntheses of condensed phosphates.
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- Analysis of inorganic polyphosphates by capillary gel electrophoresis.Analytical chemistry · 2010Article
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- Pyrophosphate-producing protein dephosphorylation by HPr kinase/phosphorylase: a relic of early life?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2002Article
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Abstract
In view of the importance of a prebiotic source of high energy phosphates, we have investigated a number of potentially prebiotic processes to produce condensed phosphates from orthophosphate and cyclic trimetaphosphate from tripolyphosphate. The reagents investigated include polymerizing nitriles, acid anhydrides, lactones, hexamethylene tetramine and carbon suboxide. A number of these processes give substantial yields of pyrophosphate from orthophosphate and trimetaphosphate from tripolyphosphate. Although these reactions may have been applicable in local areas, they are not sufficiently robust to have been of importance in the prebiotic open ocean.
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