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ArticleOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life2017

The Comparison of Hydrochloric Acid and Phosphoric Acid Treatments in the Preparation of Montmorillonite Catalysts for RNA Synthesis.

Michael Frank Aldersley, Prakash C Joshi, Yixing Huang

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Article in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael Frank AldersleyDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA. alderm@rpi.edu.
Prakash C JoshiDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
Yixing HuangDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · US

Funding

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (US) Undergraduate Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of clay minerals with a preliminary acid wash and titration to pH 7 has proven to generate catalysts for the most interesting of oligomerization reactions in which activated RNA-nucleotides generate oligomers up to 40-mers. Significantly, not all clay minerals become catalytic following this treatment and none are catalytic in the absence of such treatment. The washing procedure has been modified and explored further using phosphoric acid and the outcomes are compared to those obtained when clay samples are prepared following a hydrochloric acid wash.

Indexed as

BentoniteCatalysisHydrochloric AcidPhosphoric AcidsRNABentoniteHydrochloric Acidphosphoric acidPhosphoric AcidsRNAActivated nucleotidesMontmorilloniteOligonucleotides

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PMID28210992
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